National Energy Policy Review Workshop, 5-6 April 2004, Lusaka, Zambia
The report on the results of the Zambian National Energy Policy Review Workshop, held in Lusaka between 5-6 April 2004 with support from Partners for Africa, as well as the meeting working papers are now available online.
REPORT ON THE OUTPUTS OF THE REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY
"Rural Energy and Renewable Energy Component"
By
Prof. F. D. Yamba
Director
Centre for Energy, Environment and Engineering Zambia Ltd (CEEEZ)
Private Bag E721, Lusaka, ZAMBIA
Tel/Fax: +260 - 1 - 240267
Email: yamba@eng.unza.zm / ematsika@yahoo.com / ceeez@coppernet.zm
May 2004
1.0 BACKGROUND
This paper on Review of The National Energy Policy: "Rural Energy and Renewable Energy Component" was prepared and submitted to the Department of Energy.
2.0 PAPER PRESENTATION
A summary of the paper in Section 1.0 was presented in Power Point presentation (below) at the workshop on 5th May 2004, and was discussed at the workshop. After the workshop, the following issues were raised.
Referring to the statement that under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a 2MW minihydro is expected to be constructed, interest was aroused as in what the expected date of completion was, and what the tariffs would be. In response, it was emphasised that completion depended on how long it takes for equity to be sourced, which seems to be a problem for most Zambians. Over the tariff, it was explained that the economic/commercial tariff would be 5 - 7 US cents/kWh, which can possibly be reduced to the 3 - 4 US cents/kWh obtaining in the country if there is government intervention through smart subsidies and CDM contribution.
There was a proposal to say that it would be better to undertake an in-depth resource availability assessment before policy review. It was, however, generally felt that although the suggested approach was desirable, under the circumstances, the policy review process can go ahead and then accompanied by resource availability assessment as a task in the Action Plan.
Some researchers felt that there was need to include research as a key component of the revised energy policy. To this effect, it was explained that Section 2.6.1 of the 1994 NEP addresses that aspect, what was key was the need for local manufacture of some components to the extent possible, system design and assessment of imported technologies.
3.0 SUB-GROUP ON RURAL ENERGY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
The sub-group on Rural Energy and Renewable Energy met on 6th May 2004. It discussed the presentation from Section 2.0, referring to Section 1.0. The group comprised experts listed in Appendix A. Based on the paper and their experiences, the group members made comments, and together produced a report on Review of 1994 NEP, Gaps and Way Forward for the 2004 NEP: "Rural and Renewable Energy Policy Component" (Section 2.6). The report was later presented at the plenary (report below).
The following key issues were raised during plenary:
- The policy required to include objectives of the component, instead of the strategies which were included.
- The term New and Renewable Sources of Energy (NRSE) should be replaced with Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs)
- Taking into account (2), Section 2.6 of the policy should include minihydros, biomass and geothermal, and not just solar and wind as is the case now.
- Promotion of local manufacture of some components, and systems design.
- There is need for establishment of a Coordinating Agency responsible for implementing policy recommendations on Rural and Renewable Energy, and programmes aimed at promotion and use of such energy.
- Need for innovative financing mechanisms of RETs
- It was recognised that rural energy is a beneficially of RETs. For the rural energy policy to succeed, it need to take account of the complete linkages between energy interventions and sustainable development goals, which entails economic growth, social and environmental considerations.
- In order to address the cross cutting energy source requirements for households, there is need to included a separate section on Household Energy in the energy policy process.
4.0 TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR COMMITTEE ON RURAL ENERGY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Given below are the terms of reference for a specialised committee that will be tasked to write relevant chapters of the revised energy policy document on the component "Rural Energy and Renewable Energy".
Based on the reports in Sections 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, together with the group's expertise and experiences, and taking into account comments from the stakeholders meeting, the committee will be expected to write the chapter on Rural Energy and Renewable Energy based on the following framework:
- Overall objectives/goals of the sector (Rural Energy and Renewable Energy)
- Specific objectives of the issues under the chapter
- Needs, resource and technology assessments
- Political support
- Institutional framework
- Fiscal
- Technology development/deployment
- Information, education and training
#Strategies
- Strategies
- Outputs
- Action plan
- Monitoring and evaluation plan
APPENDIX A - workshop attendees
- Prof. F. D. Yamba CEEEZ/UNZA-Department of Mechanical Engineering - Consultant
- Dr. S. Banda Consolidated Farming Limited
- Dr. Munyeme UNZA (Physics Department) - Chairperson
- Mr. E. Matsika CEEEZ/UNZA - Department of Mechanical Engineering - Raporteur
- Dr. Kaoma NISIR
- Dr. Chinyama UNZA (Physics Department)
- Mr. J. Moult Zambia Sugar (M.D.)
- Representative World Bank
- Representative Ministry of Education
- Representative Department of Energy
Documents to download
 Report on the results of the workshop (121 KB)
- Working Paper on the Review of the National Energy Policy (709 KB)
- Working Group on Rural Energy and Renewable Energy (263 KB)
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