RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
RESIREA
Renewable Energy Sustainable Program For Intelligent
Rural Electrification and Poverty Alleviation
Selection process
Identification of promising villages
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Conditions of success of DRE projects
with Renewable Energies (RE)
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Exploitation must be profitable for a private operator and
risks limited
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Electricity should be affordable for the population, it requires
ability to pay
Promoting sites with a renewable energy potential
Promoting diversified uses of electricity (domestic,
social and productive)
Promoting dynamic villages, who can be a driving force
for the development of the area
Proposing accessible clusters of villages, to facilitate
the future operation and maintenance
Financial and technical sustainability
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREAIdentification
- Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
of promising
Unfavourable: urban, bad access,
low population, low eco dynamism
villages - Methodology
Villages in potential grid extension
areas
453 Excluded Villages
Selection Step 1 - 284 villages
Good economic dynamism, good
access, population, priority for
district
Social infrastructures, electricity
actors and micro-credit
organizations
Selection Step 2: 69 villages
Definition of clusters of villages
3 Zones of priority - 25 villages
Workshop - Expression of interest of local actors
Priorization of the 3 zones toMEM
be considered for RESIREA next stages
Lao PDR
RESIREAIdentification
- Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
of promising
Unfavourable: urban, bad access,
low population, low eco dynamism
villages - Methodology
Villages in potential grid extension
areas
453 Excluded Villages
Selection Step 1 - 284 villages
Good economic dynamism, good
access, population, priority for
district
Social infrastructures, electricity
actors and micro-credit
organizations
Selection Step 2: 69 villages
Definition of clusters of villages
3 Zones of priority - 25 villages
Workshop - Expression of interest of local actors
Priorization of the 3 zones toMEM
be considered for RESIREA next stages
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Villages in Potential Grid Extensions areas
Crossed criteria :
Villages < 20 km
from Kampong
Thom provincial
town
Villages <2km from
national road
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Unfavourable villages
Crossed criteria :
Number of
HH <30
Urban villages
Very difficult
access
Low eco
dynamism
MEM
Lao PDR
Excluded villages
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
453 exluded villages
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Selected villages - Step 1
284 villages :
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREAIdentification
- Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
of promising
Unfavourable: urban, bad access,
low population, low eco dynamism
villages - Methodology
Villages in potential grid extension
areas
453 Excluded Villages
Selection Step 1 - 284 villages
Good economic dynamism, good
access, population, priority for
district
Social infrastructures, electricity
actors and micro-credit
organizations
Selection Step 2: 69 villages
Definition of clusters of villages
3 Zones of priority - 25 villages
Workshop - Expression of interest of local actors
Priorization of the 3 zones toMEM
be considered for RESIREA next stages
Lao PDR
Accessible villages
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Crossed criteria :
Accessibility during rainy
season
General accessibility
Average accessibility of the
district
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Villages with more than 70 households
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
High economic dynamism villages
Crossed criteria :
Presence of a market
Village renowned for
its economic
dynamism
Diversified crops in
the districts
Diversified
economic activities
Sales of agricultural
production
Diversified crops in
the districts
Short period of
economic difficulties
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Presence of social infrastructures
Crossed criteria :
Health
center
Secondary
school
Primary
school
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Presence of electricity operators and microcredit organizations, and limited risks
Crossed criteria :
Presence of
micro-credit
organizations
Presence of
electricity actors
Limited
environmental
and politcal risks
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Villages priority for district representatives
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Selection - Step 2: Promising villages
69 promising villages
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREAIdentification
- Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
of promising
Unfavourable: urban, bad access,
low population, low eco dynamism
villages - Methodology
Villages in potential grid extension
areas
453 Excluded Villages
Selection Step 1 - 284 villages
Good economic dynamism, good
access, population, priority for
district
Social infrastructures, electricity
actors and micro-credit
organizations
Selection Step 2: 69 villages
Definition of clusters of villages
3 Zones of priority - 25 villages
Workshop - Expression of interest of local actors
Priorization of the 3 zones toMEM
be considered for RESIREA next stages
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Definition of clusters of villages
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Priority zones
Priority Zone A
Priority Zone C
Priority Zone B
MEM
Lao PDR
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Selected zone A - 7 villages
- Prasat Balangk district
Priority zones
Priority Zone A
Priority
C
Selected
zoneZone
C - 8 villages
- Sandan district
Priority Zone B
Roads
MEM B - 10 villages
Selected zone
Lao PDR
- Prasat Sambour district
RESIREA - Kampong Thom -07/43/2008
Results
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3 priority zones:
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25 villages - 22 000 people
Renewable energies potential
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Zone A: Prasat Balangk
Zone B: Prasat Sambour
Zone C: Sandan
Solar potential everywhere
Biomass potential to be investigated
Objectives of the workshop
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Expression of interest of all participants
Comments and validation of the selected zones
Priorization of the 3 zones
MEM
Lao PDR