Vanuatu

This report was prepared by Castlerock Consulting Ltd for the World Bank Group. Electricity in Vanuatu is supplied via concessions granted by the Government to private utilities. Though reliability and quality of supply is excellent on Efate relative to other island nation utility peers, the high price of electricity and its limited reach has profound, adverse socioeconomic impacts on the country. Efate’s geothermal power potential offers such a prospect. Vanuatu has been the subject of geothermal prospecting since the 1970’s.

This report was prepared by World Bank. 1992 report. World Bank produced a series of reports on this dating back to 1985.

1985 report by Joint UNDP/World Bank Energy Sector Assessment Program for Vanuatu. 

This report is prepared by the Vanuatu Utilities Regulatory Authority (URA). These Preliminary Guidelines are being provided to all interested persons in the matter of developing regulatory guidelines for Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs). The electricity networks in Vanuatu are currently vertically integrated, meaning that the generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity are all performed by the same company.

Electrification feasibility study for the Torba Province. 

This report was written as a thesis for the environmental Sociology Group of the Department of Social Science at Wageningen Agricultural University. It is a product of a fieldwork period in Port Olry (Vanuatu) and project preparation at SPC Noumea. 

This feasibility study report is based on a project proposal submitted by the Government of the Republic of Vanuatu, through the Energy Unit for funding under the sponsoring agency - SPCs Australian and French-funded Pacific rural Renewable Energy France-Australia Common Endeavour (PREFACE). The proposal, requested donor assistance for the electrification through solar energy to the proposal locations at the islands of Ambrym and the Bank Islands. 

keywords: PREFACE, feasibility study, Torba, rural electrification, solar energy, renewable energy

Draft Final report on the feasibility study of Sarakata hydropower project.  This report was prepared by SMEC, funded by ADB. 

keywords: hydro, electrification, renewable energy, energy access

This report was prepared by Katerina Syngellakis. The regional programme “Coping with Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region” (CCCPIR) aims to build and strengthen the capacities of Pacific member countries and regional organizations to adapt to, and mitigate, climate change impacts. A solar PV system is considered to produce electricity independently of the main grid. In the case of Vanuatu, where the main grid is fuelled almost entirely by diesel, the solar PV system also reduces diesel use and carbon dioxide emissions (one of the greenhouse gases which cause climate change).

This report was prepared by Iese Toimoana of the Pacific Power Association.