Energy Services for UNHCR Kakuma Refugee Camp

Poor People are Energisable

Madrid, February 17th of 2011

Renewables

EDP is a reference energy Utility in Iberian Peninsula market with a strong presence in Brazil and considerable investments in the USA

U.S.A.Generation capacity

3,1 MWEnergy generated

5,1 GWh

EuropeGeneration capacity

3,1 MWEnergy generated

4,6 GWh

BrazilGeneration capacity

Brazil

Spain

Portugal

Generation capacity

1,7 MW

Electricity

5,1 GWh generated

17,8 GWh distributed

2,7 thousand customers

Generation capacity

3,5 MW

Electricity

8,3 GWh generated

6,8 GWh distributed

998 thousand customers

Gas

34,2 GWh distributed

824 thousand customers

Generation capacity

9,9 MW

Electricity

20,0 GWh generated

35,5 GWh distributed

6,1 thousand customers

Gas

5,0 GWh distributed

240 thousand customers

Generation capacity14 MW

Energy generated24 GWh

Kakuma pilot-project is an innovative Social Investment of EDP

UNHCR asked for a donationfor health and nutrition program

EDP replied with a Social Investment with

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EDP replied with a Social Investment with Sustainable Energy & Environment Solutions

2009 Feb

• On-field assessment

2009 Jun

• Proposal

2009 Sep

• Commitment at Clinton Global Initiative

• Kick-off with On-field Project Manager

2010 Oct

• Conclusion

•Sudanese 51% and 36% Somali;

•13% of Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Uganda, Eritrea,Namibia.

Refugee

statistics

•6 pre-schools,

•12 primary schools

• 2 secondary schoolsSchools

There were 50 thousand Refugees in Kakuma on February 2009.In 2011 are expected 100 thousand.

•2 hospitals and 1 clinic;

•Serving Refugees and TurkanasHospitals

•8 boreholes of water;

•52 000 m3 per month.Water supply

•Warehouses, offices and houses;

•Grouped over 3 compounds.

Other institutional buildings

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Energy needs for families and buildings demand high quantity of fossil fuels with major impacts

Electricity

for lighting, refrigeration, water supply, IT

DieselKerosene

and parafin

Heat

for cooking

Firewood

and charcoal

Energy needs

Fuel demand

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and parafin and charcoal

Outdoor air polution, unreliablility, high cost

Indoor air polution, deseases, high cost

Unsecurity, unproductivity,

deforestation, high cost

Impacts

Level 3

Energy for modern society needs

Level 2

Energy to generate

Capacity building and

entrepreneurshipSolar cooking Solar water

purificationSolar PV for irrigation

EDP offers energy services that fulfill basic human needs and enables the productive use of energy

Energy to generateeconomical activities

Level 1

Energy for basic human needs

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Solar energy for

buildings

Efficient LightingSolar lamps for

studentsSolar street lighting

Most end-users pay the energy services provided through a fee-for-service model

Service

Service providing Solutions and

consulting services sales

• Installation services• Post-sales services• Solutions ownership• End-user service provider

• Payment for the service provided

• Architecture design• Program definition• Partnership building• Solutions and consulting

services provider • Captures financial

resources• Measures impacts

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End-users

Service Provider

(Institutional Client and/or Local Partner)

Solutions Provider

(EDP)

Micro-finance

Project financing /subsidies

sales

Direct payment or though micro-finance

Payments

Local capacitation was delivered to enable usage and long-term sustainability for the solutions provided

Users

Install, mantain& repair

•Local market knowledge

•Enabling sustainability

Local

Partners

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Sustainability

Operate&

Manage

Users& repair

The value added by EDP energy services is supported by 5 pillars, attending poor families in remote regions (off-grid)

CONVINIENCEIntegrated

services, including

finance support

PROXIMITYProject

COMPETITIVENESSPrices below the

• Provides sustainable and renewable energy, at competitive prices, reducing both combustible consumption and CO2 emissions;

• Allows better time allocation, from energy resources gathering and acquisitioning

Major benefits

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EDP approach

SUSTAINABILITY• Stakeholder•Partnerships

• Capacitation

LOCAL ECONOMY DINAMISATION

Use of local resources, when

available

Project Management

done locally by

EDP

Prices below the present-day energy

expenditure of beneficiaries

gathering and acquisitioning (firewood and other fuels) for productive activities;

• Improves the safety of people and goods, in particular women and children;

• Eliminates smoke exposition (from lighting and cooking), improving health conditions and increasing night-time productivity;

• Allows family comfort.

Kakuma 2010 pilot-project impacts

Social

Refugee and Host community (~80 K)

11 institutional buildings

4500 Students in 15 schools + Families

300 Families with agro-forestry irrigation

31 Street lighting poles

100 trained skilled workers

NOTE: 100% EDP investment = 1,3M€9

100 trained skilled workers

Economical

~ 50.000l/year

Diesel avoided

Environmental

~ 640 t/year

CO2 avoided

#1 Utilities

Contacts and additional information

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To know more about EDP Project in UNHCR Kakuma Refugee Camp please click:

http://www.edp.pt/en/sustentabilidade/sociedadeecultura/IntervencaoSocial/Pages/Projectokakuma.aspx

and then click above the photo on the right side.