Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-85).
Contents:
Purpose of the Guidelines -- What is energy access? -- What is EnergyPlus? -- Overview of an energy access programme -- A capacity development perspective on EnergyPlus -- Monitoring energy poverty: the baseline and tracking progress -- Defining energy poverty -- Setting a baseline for energy poverty -- Planning energy access indicators and targets -- Monitoring progress during implementation of an EnergyPlus programme -- Institutions and coordination of energy access -- Aligning national energy institutions and their roles -- Leading policy development for energy access -- Mechanisms for coordination and cooperation -- Public finance and market incentives -- Types of public financing -- Fiscal and industry policies that affect energy access -- Energy resource availability and forecasting demand -- Energy production and generation capacity -- Forecasting energy demand -- Initiating productive energy uses -- Scoping potential productive uses -- Planning and initiating productive uses -- Financing productive uses -- Integrating cross-sector collaboration -- Facilitating energy production and services -- Developing models for energy service delivery -- Strengthening stakeholder capacities for energy service delivery -- Financing energy production and services -- Energy value chain -- Productive-use value chain -- Scaling-up successes -- Criteria for selecting and refining a scale-up model -- Components of a scale-up plan.
Summary:
"The EnergyPlus Guidelines, based on UNDP's wide experience in the field of sustainable energy access, serves as a toolkit for planning, designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating energy access programmes that promote the productive uses of energy for livelihoods improvement."--Publisher website.
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