This document aims to rehabilitate and develop rural distribution networks (medium and low voltages and off-grid systems) to meet with safety and reliability standards, meanwhile ensuring environmental protection, cost effectiveness and easy implementation. It also aims to ensure the development of the electricity of Vietnam in the transition period that is able to harmonize the current rural electricity.
This is a standardized contract between EVN (the national utility of Vietnam) and local independent contractors who will provide meter reading, billing and minor repairs for retail customers. By using individuals from local communities to perform these services, EVN estimates that it saves 30 to 40% of what it would cost to provide the same services with one of its own employees. A typical service agent will be responsible for 30 to 100 households and will earn US $30 to 120 per month.
On four remote islands in the Philippines, small power projects are making a big difference in people’s lives. IFC helped the government attract private investment
in off-grid power generation, which will provide reliable and cheaper electricity to hundreds of thousands of people. The agreements were signed September 2005 and May 2007.
Department of Energy and Climate Change, HM Government
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Sustainable development goals (SDGs) placed access to basic services at the center of international development in 2016-2030. Out of 17 goals, five address the access of poor people to basic services: to health in SDG3, to education in SDG4, and SDG5, to water and sanitation in SDG6, to energy in SDG7, and to urban services in SDG11. The mutually reinforcing relationship between electricity access, economic development, and poverty reduction is well established. The SDGs framed access to basic services as a matter of dignity.
According to the ToR, the objective of the consultancy is to support the Government of Panama (GdP) in the evaluation and validation of the projects of technical standards (NT) and technical regulations (RT) for lighting products, which are currently in development, in particular with respect to its scope, structure and alignment with other national and international standards and regulations, through the following specific activities: • Provide a summary of energy efficiency standards and regulations for lighting products in Mexico, the US and the European Union; • Submit to the main gover
India is targeting to achieve USD 5 trillion economy in the next five years which will require significant contribution in the GDP from the manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, services sectors etc. With the economic slowdown due to COVID-19 global pandemic, these sectors need to bounce back to their pre-pandemic growth rate in order to achieve the USD 5 trillion GDP target in the next seven to eight years.