---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bruce Baikie <bruce@green-wifi.org> Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:50 AM Subject: [TIER] Fwd: World Bank book announcement: How can climate friendly access to electricity in rural Africa be achieved? To: "tier@tier.cs.berkeley.edu" <tier@tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Dear colleague, "*From the Bottom Up: How Small Producers and Mini-Grids Can Deliver Electrification and Renewable Energy in Africa" *is a useful realistic guide recently published by the World Bank. Easy to read and understand, this book focuses on ground level policy and regulatory actions that can create a workable foundation for commercially and environmentally sustainable private and community investment in distributed generation. A range of options for dealing with key controversial issues are analyzed. These issues include: - what are the sustainable business and climate friendly models; - when is hybrid distributed generation more suitable than pure renewable distributed generation; - what to do "when the big grid connects to the little grid"; - how should an economic regulator set tariffs for projects that have earned revenues from carbon credits; - how to implement revenue "top-ups" to feed-in tariffs for grid connected renewable generators; - how to deal with the political constraints of a uniform national tariff for rural mini-grids; - how to establish workable interconnection and operating standards when a distributed generator connects to an existing mini-grid or to the main grid; and - how to implement light-handed regulation. The book draws on the authors' on-the-ground experiences (both good and bad) in Tanzania, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia and other countries. The book will be of immediate interest and use to developers, investors, regulators, utilities and policymakers. It is available as a free pdf download <https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16571> and in hardcopy <https://publications.worldbank.org/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=24658&cid=EXT_WBPubsAlerts_P_EXT> . Our apologies if you already received this announcement through another channel. With best wishes, Bernard Tenenbaum and Chris Greacen _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER@tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier