Energy Services for

UNHCR Kakuma Refugee Camp

Poor People are Energisable

Madrid, February 17th of 2011

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

Renewables

U.S.A. Europe
Generation capacity Generation capacity
3,1 MW 3,1 MW
Energy generated Energy generated
5,1 GWh 4,6 GWh
Brazil
Generation capacity
14 MW
Energy generated
24 GWh Portugal
Generation capacity Spain
9,9 MW
Brazil Generation capacity
Electricity 3,5 MW
Generation capacity
20,0 GWh generated
1,7 MW Electricity
35,5 GWh distributed 8,3 GWh generated
Electricity 6,1 thousand customers
5,1 GWh generated 6,8 GWh distributed
17,8 GWh distributed Gas 998 thousand customers
5,0 GWh distributed
2,7 thousand customers Gas
240 thousand customers 34,2 GWh distributed
824 thousand customers
Kakuma pilot-project is an innovative Social Investment of EDP

UNHCR asked for a donation

for health and nutrition program

EDP replied with a Social Investment with

Sustainable Energy & Environment Solutions

2009 Feb 2009 Jun 2009 Sep 2010 Oct

• On-field • Proposal • Commitment at • Conclusion
assessment Clinton Global
Initiative

• Kick-off with
On-field Project
Manager

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

Refugee •Sudanese 51% and 36% Somali;

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

•6 pre-schools,
Schools •12 primary schools
• 2 secondary schools

•2 hospitals and 1 clinic;

Hospitals •Serving Refugees and Turkanas

•8 boreholes of water;
Water supply •52 000 m3 per month.

Other institutional •Warehouses, offices and houses;

buildings •Grouped over 3 compounds.

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

Electricity Heat
Energy needs
for lighting, refrigeration, water supply, IT for cooking

Kerosene Firewood
Fuel demand Diesel
and parafin and charcoal

Impacts Outdoor air polution,
unreliablility, high cost
Unsecurity,
Indoor air polution,
unproductivity,
deseases, high cost
deforestation, high cost

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

Level 3
Energy for
modern society needs

Capacity building and Solar PV for irrigation Solar cooking Solar water
entrepreneurship purification

Level 2
Energy to generate
economical activities

Solar energy for Solar street lighting Solar lamps for Efficient Lighting
buildings students

Level 1
Energy for
basic human needs

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Source: International Energy Agency
Most end-users pay the energy services provided
through a fee-for-service model
• Architecture design
• Installation services • Program definition
• Payment for the • Post-sales services • Partnership building
service provided • Solutions ownership • Solutions and consulting
• End-user service provider services provider
• Captures financial
resources
• Measures impacts

Service providing
Solutions and
consulting services
sales
Service Solutions
End-users Micro- Provider Provider
(Institutional Client
finance (EDP)
and/or Local Partner) Payments

Direct payment or
Project
though micro-finance
financing
/subsidies

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

Local •Local market knowledge

Partners •Enabling sustainability

Install,
mantain
& repair
Users

Operate
&
Manage

Sustainability
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The value added by EDP energy services is supported by 5 pillars,
attending poor families in remote regions (off-grid)
Major benefits
CONVINIENCE
Integrated
services, including • Provides sustainable and
renewable energy, at
finance support competitive prices, reducing
both combustible consumption
and CO2 emissions;

PROXIMITY • Allows better time allocation,

COMPETITIVENESS
from energy resources
Project Prices below the gathering and acquisitioning
Management present-day energy (firewood and other fuels) for
done locally by expenditure of productive activities;
EDP
EDP beneficiaries
approach • Improves the safety of people
and goods, in particular women
and children;

• Eliminates smoke exposition

LOCAL ECONOMY (from lighting and cooking),
SUSTAINABILITY improving health conditions
DINAMISATION and increasing night-time
• Stakeholder
Use of local productivity;
•Partnerships
resources, when
• Capacitation • Allows family comfort.
available

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 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

Environmental Economical

~ 640 t/year ~ 50.000l/year

CO2 avoided Diesel avoided

#1 Utilities

NOTE: 100% EDP investment = 1,3M€

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Contacts and additional information

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.

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