IEEJ : July 2011

REPUBLIC OF RWANDA

Energy, Water andSanitation
Authority- Rwanda

Energy Policy
Japan Tokyo, July 2011

Mr. Mark Murenzi Rukata - EWSA
Eng. Emmanuel Hategekimana - MININFRA

Presentation Outline

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 Country overview
 Electricity subsector
 Investment guiding documents
 Short and Medium term strategic papers
 EWSA overview
 Demand forecast by 2017
 Overall target by 2017
 Internal and Regional Investment
environment
 Challenges and RecommendationsEndIEEJ : July 2011

Country overview

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 Rwanda is a land locked country in central
eastern Africa borders; DRC, Burundi, Ugandaand Tanzania
 Population : 10, 117, 029
 Land area (Square km): 26338
 GDP per capita:520USD (2009 data) Average Temperature: 24.6 - 27.6ºc
 Currency: Rwandan franc (RWF)ENERGY SECTORIEEJ : July 2011

Investment guiding documents
 Electricity Law
 National Energy Policy and National Energy
Strategy Electricity Master Plan 2009-2025
Short and medium term strategic papers
 Investment Prospectus 2009-2013 (forEARP) Electricity Development strategy for theenergy sector: 2011 – 2017

EWSA overview

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 Installed and the imported capacity are 82.77MW
and 16MW respectively.
 Peak demand 69MW.
 The HV transmission lines are 110 kV, 70kV
and have in total 391.387km.
 The network has 18 substations.
 The network is monitored by SCADA System

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Projects Current status (2011)

Targets/2017

Access • 4900 Km MV & LV
• 13% connections(195,085connections)• 90% HealthCenters• 26% Schools• 90%
AdministrativeCenters• Additional of
1400Km of MV &LV length• 50%connections• 100% HealthCenters• 100% Schools• 100%
AdministrativeCenters

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GENERATIONTYPE
HydroNational
Installed
capacity Thermal

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GENERATIONCAPACITY IN MW
35.85
46.92

PV

0.25

Total National Installedcapacity
Import capacity
Total (generation+import) capacity

82.77
1698.77

EVOLUTION OF NATIONAL OFFER
IN KWH FROM 2000 TO 2010IEEJ : July 2011

Year

2000

National offer

203,862,357

2003

2004

235,251,447

204,027,563

2001

2002

209,350,019 225,511,388

2005
192,532,097

2006
230,356,298

2007
2008
2009
2010
248,623,363 277,449,623 307,789,939 353,228,826

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KWH FROM 2000 TO 2010IEEJ : July 2011

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DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM• Distribution system is composed of
30kV, 15kV, 11kV and 6.6kV lines• Low voltage distribution is composed of
0.4kV lines
Year
Overall Electricity
losses2006

2007

22182008 2009
1820

2010
19

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CUSTOMER EVOLUTION
Year

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

Customers

48,581

57,67967,00868,314 70,187

Year

2006

Customers

142,4977,181 86,537 109,502 7
186,487

2007 2008 2009 2010

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BILLINGAll low voltage (0.4kV) customers useprepayment Energy meters known as CashPowerAll big customers (Medium voltage) are
equipped with electronic meters with a GPRS andindexes are collected by the billing officer at
his/her office.
Electricity grid audit is undertaken for thereduction of the losses
YEAR

2009

38,282,956,14
0
BILLING2010

Increase

6,003,296,87
44,286,253,018
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Overall targets by 2017
By 2017, Rwanda intends to have 50%
electricity access connectivity andelectricity production of 1000 MW

Generation Mix 2010‐2017

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Targets and investment
opportunities directory

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links:
http://mininfra.gov.rw/index.php?option=com_content&t
ask=view&id=117&Itemid=145
http://www.rdb.rw/about-rwanda/economy.html
http://www.ewsa.rw/projectsreco.html

Electricity Master Plan 2009-2025 andElectricity strategic plan for the energy sector:
2011 – 2017

Internal and regional investment
environment

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infrastructure considered GoR priorities
 Clear roadmap strategic papers/documents
 Vision 2020
 EDPRS Belong to Two strong regional economic
bodies i.e. EAC and CEPGL Embarked on regional interconnection of electric grids and exploitation of shared resources (Hydro andGas)IEEJ : July 2011

The energy policy objectives are to support nationaldevelopment through:• ensuring the availability of reliable andaffordable energy supplies for all Rwandans;• encouraging the rational and efficient use ofenergy;• establishing environmentally sound andsustainable systems of energy production,procurement, transportation, distribution andend‐use

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Energy efficiency approach‐ CFLs promotion programme‐ Solar Water Heaters (SWH)‐ Promotion of use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas(LPGs)‐ Promotion of Energy Audits in Industries

EDPRS CFLs promotion programme(2008‐2012): implications
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• Number of lamps: 800 000 lamps• 1 lamp CFL of 20 watts is equivalent to 1 incandescent lampof• 100watts, there is Saving of 80 W
• Per day: 80w X 4h/d= 320 Wh/day• Per year: 320wh/d X 365 d x = 115 kWh/y• Foreign exchange savings for 1 CFL: 115 kWh x 132 frw = Rwf
15,180• For 800, 000 CFLs savings = Rwf 12 Bn or 22 000 000 $/year• Savings over the EDPRS period: US $ 88mil

IEEJ : July 2011EDPRS Solar Water Heating programme (2008‐2012):
implications• Targeted 5000 hhs should be using SWH• On average 5000 SHW are equivalent to 10 000 m2of Solar• collectors= 1000 ToE/y• Energy saving: 11,000 MWh/y• Indirect foreign currency savings:11000 MWh/y x
132000 Frw/Mwh = Rwf• 1,45 Bill/yr• Savings over the EDPRS period: Rwf 5.8 Bill = US $10.56 mill

EDPRS LPG promotion programme(2008‐2012) : implications
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Programme: LPG: 5 000 tons /y :(about 20,000 households)
5 000 tons = 250 000 bottles of 20 kgs
Consumption: 1 bottle/hh/month x12= 12 bottles/hh/yNumber of hhs targeted by 2012 = 30,000 hh
30,000 hh x 12 bottles x 4 years = 1,440,000 bottles = 28,800
tons• LPG consumed within the EDPRS period = 28,800 tons
• This would replace 190,080 tonnes of charcoal or 1,900,800
tonnes of wood

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Promotion of Energy Audits in Industries
Most industries in Rwanda do not give the necessary
weight to the use and management of energy.
Annual energy audits of the industries will allow us
to know the energy consumption of the industry andbe able to recommend areas of saving by examining
the whole industrial production chain. The
programmme also aimed at Sensitization
campaigns on the efficient use of Energy in industries

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Achievements‐ Distribution of CFLs has tremendousily beenachieved‐ Reduction of network losses from 35% in 2002
to 19% in 2010 commercial being only
between 5‐7%
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Challenges- National Energy Policy and National Energy
Strategy is still adraft not gazetted orapproved yet‐ Companies don’t understand the importanceof energy efficiency- Still depend of HFO and LFO as source ofelectricity (almost 50% of the totalproduction)- The country’s main focus to day is tosatisfy demand and increase connection rates,
but supply is still low due to lack ofdiversification of energy sources.

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Cont’n‐ Financial mobilization and Resourceallocations‐ High tariff of electricity due to production
cost. Rwanda is among countries that has
highest tariff rate (cents 20 $/kwh)‐ Determination of tariffs for IPPs(IndependentPower Producers)‐ Lack of adequate technical and financial
capacity for private sector in energy sector

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Recommendations‐ Setting up a clear energy efficiency andconservation policy‐2008‐2012 need to beamended and adopted‐ Carry out Regular energy audits and give
incentives to the companies with good energy
saving and conservation mechanisms‐ Speed up the generation of other resources
like geothermal, methane gas, biogas ,solar,peat, to reduce the cost of electricity; ‐ i.e.
Methane Gas (300MW),Geothermal(310MW),
Hydro(230MW), Peat (200MW)

Electricity Network
Coverage

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