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SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REGULATION AND POLICYMAKING TRAINING MANUAL page 10.36 • Direct cost for R&D: There are some subsidies for rural energy research and development in many developing countries. Again, taking China as an example, the annual budget for biogas, small hydropower and improved stoves is about RMB 100 million RMB (13 million $US, 2007 April exchange rate). • Projects subsidies: In some cases, special financial agencies have been set up for rural energy project financing, such as IREDA in India, which offers softterm loans varying at present from 2.5–14 per cent. Since 1987, IREDA secured international funding for the solar photovoltaic and thermal, small hydro and wind sectors through the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. As a government agency, IREDA started cautiously, taking bank guarantees from the beneficiary for releasing credits in any of the modes available with them. By mid 1998, IREDA had sanctioned 963 projects covering over 300 million $US and the loan recovery rate has been as high as 99 per cent.
MODULE 10: INCREASING ACCESS TO ENERGY SERVICES IN RURAL AREAS page 10.37 8. EXPERIENCES WITH INCREASING ENERGY SERVICES IN RURAL AREAS 8.1. China Rural energy integration programme 45 Starting in the 1980s, the Chinese Government began rural energy construction work that focused on renewable energy. The main areas of work were in promoting energy efficient stoves, rural biogas digesters, fuel wood forests and solar energy. As a result, at present the coverage of energy efficient stoves in China’s rural areas is over 95 per cent and biogas work has moved from merely resolving energy needs to being a key component in the development of ecological agriculture and rural sanitation. The Chinese Government has been investing over RMB 1 billion (US$ 130 million, 2007 April exchange rate) annually in the building of rural biogas digesters, with emphasis on providing these subsidies to biogas work in China’s western regions, thus benefiting the development of renewable energy in China’s rural areas. The principle of “suiting local conditions, developing diverse energy resources, utilizing energy resources in an integrated manner and striving for economic returns” has existed in rural energy development for 20 years to develop firewood and coal-saving stoves, household biogas digesters, small-scale hydropower stations and fuel wood plantations. Funds were allocated accordingly by both the central and local financial departments for rural energy development. In order to fit in with the development of rural energy resources, concerned departments under the State Council and local government at all levels have successively set up institutions and agencies for rural energy management and technical extension. During the periods of the Sixth and the Seventh Five-Year Plans, trial projects of integrated rural energy development were successfully carried out in 18 counties, covering an area of over 30,000 square kilometres and touching the lives of 10.8 million people. During the Eighth Five-Year Plan period, China, by launching the “100 County Project”, i.e. 138 integrated rural energy development counties, promoted the rural energy development in an all-round way. 45 Lu Ming, Ministry of Agriculture, R.R. China rural energy development in China and its role in sustainable rural development, 2003.
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