This report was prepared by ESCAP consisting of Rikke Munk Hansen and Herbert Wade. The mission was to visit Tarawa, Kiribati to assist in developing detailed terms of reference for a prefeasibility study on solar/diesel hybrid power development for Islands Council Office areas on rural islands.
This report was prepared by Tyler Szabo. This paper will focus on how improved energy provision could benefit Vanuatu’s rural industries and therefore generate additional income for rural communities. Specifically, it will document promising technology enhancements that could increase revenue for rural enterprises but that require a new or improved energy source. It will also document key existing programs that are focused on rural livelihood development and which could serve as strategic partners in a targeted rural energy plan.
This report was prepared by the Government of Vanuatu. This document contains the Investment Plan (IP) for Vanuatu. The consultations included a wide range of government agencies, as well as representatives from the private sector, civil society, and academia. This Investment Plan, if implemented, will be profoundly transformational for Vanuatu, changing a country with very limited access to electricity to one in which roughly 90 percent of the population has access and in which most of the energy consumed comes from renewable energy sources.
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 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
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).