Promoting Productive Uses of Electricity in Rural Areas of Peru : Experience and Lessons Learned
The Government of Peru is committed to improving rural electrification coverage, aiming to increase rural coverage from an estimated 55 percent at the end of 2010 to 88 percent by 2020. To achieve this goal, the Directorate General of Rural Electri...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/06/17736779/promoting-productive-uses-electricity-rural-areas-peru-experience-lessons-learned http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23747 |
| Summary: | The Government of Peru is committed to
improving rural electrification coverage, aiming to increase
rural coverage from an estimated 55 percent at the end of
2010 to 88 percent by 2020. To achieve this goal, the
Directorate General of Rural Electrification (DGER) of the
Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) has been implementing and
executing the National Plan for Rural Electrification,
prepared annually, based on the 2006 Rural Electrification
Law, to extend service and attract participation of the
population, local governments and electricity distribution
companies. Within this program, the World Bank (WB) and
Global Environmental Facility (GEF) are supporting the
Directorate of Competitive Funds (DFC) of the DGER in the
implementation and execution of the Rural Electrification
(RE) Project, initiated in July 2006 and the Second Rural
Electrification Project initiated in July 2011, to assist
electricity distribution companies to implement rural
electrification. Among the activities underway in the first
RE Project is the implementation of a pilot program to
develop the productive use of electricity, promoting
opportunities for income generation in rural areas. This
report provides an early assessment of the productive uses
of electricity in Peru under the RE Project. |
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