And so on. The project is expected to test and demonstrate a framework for providing electricity to rural communities outside the reach of the grid. The project will initially cover four communities in the eastern province. The aim is that the results would help to improve the living standard of the people in the rural areas. The project is in line with Zambia's energy policy of promoting optimum supply and utilization of energy in indigenous forms.
Ministers agree on energy conservation and nuclear.
At the Pan-European Environmental Ministers' meeting in June in rhus, Denmark, all the European countries welcomed a common guideline for energy conservation. In the ministerial declaration from the meeting, the ministers agreed to phase out dangerous nuclear power plants, and 10 countries asked for a complete phaseout of nuclear energy. Even though the text has diplomatic loopholes, the energy issues were some of the most debated items on the ministerial agenda. The US and Canada took part in the meeting as member of the UN Economic Commission for Europe, but they could support neither the guideline nor the statement. The proposals seemed to be too radical for them.