What will be covered?
- To introduce the issue of energy access in rural areas and the importance of energy for the achievement of the MDGs.
- To outline the basic energy needs in rural areas and some of the barriers preventing increased energy access to rural populations.
- To provide some examples of policy instruments for improving energy services in rural areas.
- To outline business models and private sector participation schemes for increasing access to energy in rural areas.
“This module builds on the information contained in the previous module concern- ing industrial energy efficiency. The module contains a brief recap of selected concepts and presents them in terms of firstly creating policies and regulations that will foster sustainable industrial energy efficiency programmes that will be widely supported by industry and hence will have a greater degree of sustain- ability and success. Secondly, the module will introduce the process of indus- trial systems optimization and the very significant financial benefits that can be realized by industries and national economies as a whole through the process of optimizing industrial systems.”