Activities
Activity 1 : Contributing to sustainable energy planning
An Integrated Resources Planning exercise is relevant for Malé because it will guarantee satisfaction of the energy needs not by increasing the electricity supply alone but by optimising the overall electricity system (that is, by acting on both supply and demand). Such an exercise would consist in:
• Identifying the demand by sector, by usage and by season
• Developing alternative scenarios (depending on the energy management efforts) of the evolution of the demand
• Translating these scenarios into supply-demand equilibrium and identifying the needs for increasing the electricity generation.
This activity will be jointly implemented by European and local experts with the support of the national electricity company STELCO and the concerned ministries.
Activity 2 : Highlighting on-site energy generation potential
The objective of this module is to create greater awareness and undertake technical and economic feasibility of adopting new and renewable energies for decentralized rural electrification (DRE).
Pilot islands will be selected to carry out techno-economic analysis while taking the social and environmental aspects into consideration. The methodology retained consists of three steps: analysis of the demand and selection of the technical options, financial and tariff analysis, and setting up of the project as the final step.
Activity 3 : Designing a sustainable transport policy
After establishing a pragmatic diagnosis of the present situation, i.e. the identification of what is at stake, the essential figures, the main malfunctioning and conflicting points; short term actions will be defined, by instance:
• Development of a public transport network: The public transport can satisfy an important share of the displacement needs, particularly those involving movements from home to workspace or school. Nevertheless, experience shows that the rate of use varies a lot depending on the initial situation.
• Development of intermodes: The present trend of the transport policy is no longer to create competition/opposition among the different transport modes. The objective is not to favour one at the cost of the other but to combine them (public transport, individual transport, motorised transport, non-polluting transport modes) according to the mobility needs.
