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Schneider Electric Industry SAS
Sustainable Development Department
35 rue Joseph Monier
F-92506 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex (France)
Tel: +33 (0)1 41 29 70 00 - Fax: +33 (0)1 41 29 71 00
Contact us: fr-bipbop@schneider-electric.com
Innovative solutions for access to energy Providing products/solutions and business models to meet the needs of populations at the Base of the Pyramid in terms of access to energy
The context 1.4 billion people, have no access to electricity. They earn less than 2 dollars per day*. The absence of electricity means no access to proper basic needs like health care, cooking, lighting and also sustainable social and economic activities. These families spend more than 15 dollars per month on energy in average. Schneider Electric is committed to providing responses to the question: What steps need to be taken in less developed countries to bring reliable, affordable and clean electricity that would empower the 1.4 billion people who have no access to energy? *In purchasing power parity - source : world development indicators - World Bank. (source: International Energy Agency)
Schneider Electric solutions for access to energy
The BipBop programme
Schneider Electric has developped a
sustainable programme to bring safe, clean
Planet & Society Barometer
electricity to the people who need it most
worldwide. 2010 Objectives from
achievements 01/2009 to 12/2011
With the strong willingness to involve local
communities and local stakeholders in each
country, the BipBop programme addresses
4,742 10 000 young
young people people from the Base
three key issues to provide sustainable access trained of the Pyramid trained
to electricity: in electricity trades
• the lack of appropriate equipment through
the development of an adequate offer; 891 058 1 000 000
• the lack of financial resources available for households households from the
innovative energy entrepreneurs through connected Base of the Pyramid
funding; have access to energy
• and the skills and expertise shortage through with Schneider Electric
technical and business training. solutions
209 500 new
This strategy builds upon a profitable and entrepreneurs entrepreneurs from
responsible vision and is called BipBop - an supported the Base of the Pyramid
acronym standing for Business, Innovation start their own business
and People at the Base of the Pyramid*. in the electricity market
Bip Bop at a glance
Business Innovation
Manage a socially driven Build adequate offers/solutions
investment fund to and business models to meet
financially support the needs of populations
companies dedicated to at the Base of the Pyramid in
the access to energy terms of access to energy
business at the Base of
the Pyramid
People
Train young people from the Base of the Pyramid in
energy management related skills and sponsor them
* BOP for Bottom Of the Pyramid. It is the expression commonly used
to refer people with the lowest income on a global scale in a given country.
A dedicated and complete set of innovations
providing access to energy
Remote & isolated places Rural villages
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Domestic Needs: Entrepreneurial Needs: Domesti
Autonomous lighting, mobile charging, radio, Mills, water pumping, battery charging Lighting,
fan, … station, cold chain, handcraft, … drinkable
Expectations: Expectations: Expectat
> Reliable, affordable, robust and green > Economic development: provide enough > Reliab
energy to run their domestic devices power to run activities generating income energ
for local entrepreneurs
>
Productivity: replacing manual
tasks very time consuming
Lighting DC (Direct Current) Solar water Lighting
Solar Home System management system pumping station powered by battery
• Autonomous lighting solution • Battery charge and discharge management systems • Autonomus solar • Autonomous lighting solution
• Based on solar generation • Large connections outputs pumping station • Based on battery rental model
• Owned by customer • Security • Without battery • Lamp owned by customer,
• Owned by customer • Water tank required and charged battery rented
• Managed by a local by an entrepreneur
cooperative
Collective Individual
Schneider Electric solutions for access to energy
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ic Needs: Community Needs: Domestic and
mobile charging, TV, radio, fan, town hall, school, health centres, entrepreneurial Needs :
water, … entertainment, water supply market, … Lighting, mobile charging, TV, radio, fan, …
tions: Expectations: Expectations:
ble, affordable, robust and green > Promote and facilitate social life: enable > Affordable energy to power their domestic
gy to run their domestic devices to improve the level of services and social devices and entrepreneurial activities
activities within communities
Battery Micro off-grid Lighting Lighting
charging station facility powered by grid powered by grid and/or battery
• One device can charge • 2,5 / 11 / 24 kW: enough • Energy supply based • Continuous lighting
10 lighting system batteries to power between 20 to on micro-grid • Battery charged when main grid electricity is available
• Based on solar generation 100 households and some • Owned by customer • Or charged battery rented by an entrepreneur
• Managed by a local community infrastructure • Lamp owned by customer, and charged battery
entrepreneur • Based on renewable energy potentialy rented by an entrepreneur
generation
• Managed by community
INVERTER
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Involving local players to build
sustainable business and social
dynamics
BipBop programme develops joint
Credit: Patrick Piro
actions on the field and shares expertise
in order to promote access to energy
for people at the Base of the Pyramid.
Schneider Electric ‘s partners benefit
from our global footprint, industrialisation
and technological capabilities, and
the expertise of our global and local
teams (project management, business
development, engineering, etc.). Such
shared value ensures complementarity of
competencies and knowledge between
Schneider Electric and its partners, which
is compulsory to answer needs and
expectations of communities lacking of
reliable, affordable and clean energy.
NGOs: field players help us to deploy our Corporations: cross sector companies
solutions within communities. NGOs are directly may be developing similar Base of the Pyramid
linked with Community Based Organisations approaches to address other needs. Creating local
(cooperatives, villages, Self Help Groups…). Such or regional collaborative platforms helps to gather
actors may elaborate distribution channels with knowledge and actions to reach shared goals.
specific sensitization to population; hence ensuring
viability and relevance of our joint actions. Local authorities: governments, regional and
local authorities may bring legitimacy and validation
Entrepreneurs: many SMEs in the field of of socio-economic studies to implement projects that
access to energy have emerged. They face local must adapt to local contexts. Authorities may also
realities and develop business. Partnering with them co-invest in projects as well as impulse creation of
helps to find innovative business models accessing lacking infrastructures.
local communities.
Donors and sponsors: projects investments
Traditional partners: Schneider Electric may be too high to be supported by local
conventional partners such as distributors and communities. Launching new business models
wholesalers may contribute to build models based at the Base of the Pyramid may require hybrid
on their local knowledge and access chanels. investments that mix grants from aid agencies or
foundations.and private investments.
Micro Finance Institutions: agreements with
MFIs help to bypass lack of banking services in
remote places and low financial capacity of end-
user customers.
Complementary Training
We developp dedicaded professional
Entrepreneurship
We support the development of local economic
actions training for young people around energy initiatives with a sustainable investment fund,
management careers, partnering Schneider Electric Energy Access, that invests on new
with local authorities and NGOs. or existing structure developing access to energy
business.
Schneider Electric solutions for access to energy
BipBop projects
around the world
more than
27 projects
in 17 countries
BOP
Take a tour around the world with the BipBop map.
An interactive tool to get at a glance and in-depth
information about all the BipBop projects.
To find out more: schneider-electric.com/bipbop
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