Green PNPM Micro Hydro Power – Technical Support Unit (MHP-TSU)

Project description

Title: Green PNPM Micro Hydro Power Technical Support Unit (MHP-TSU)
Commissioned by: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Country: Indonesia
Lead executing agency: Indonesian Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA)
Overall term: 2009 to 2012

Indonesien. Junge an einer dörflichen Wasserkraftanlage. © GIZ

Context

Due to Indonesia's geographical characteristics, the country is unlikely in the near future to have a centrally connected national grid. This means that people living in the remoter rural areas will continue to live without a grid connection. As the country possesses abundant water resources, building micro hydropower stations provides the ideal solution for a decentralised power supply.

As part of the German-Dutch co-financing scheme 'Energizing Development', the Green PNPM Micro Hydro Power Technical Support Unit provides technical support to Indonesia's National Programme for Community Empowerment (PNPM), in one of the world's largest rural self-help infrastructure development programmes. The so-called Green PNPM project is financed through a trust fund administered by the World Bank, which enables communities to identify their own development needs. A large number of the rural villages involved have chosen to install micro hydropower facilities.

Indonesia. © GIZ

Objective

Poor households, social and public institutions, and small businesses in rural areas, are benefiting from a sustainable supply of electricity.

Approach

The project ensures that the micro hydropower facilities built with the help of Green PNPM funding meet the required standards for a high quality of construction and sustainable operation. It supports the entire Green PNPM implementation process for the hydropower stations, and it:

  • carries out feasibility studies
  • develops construction plans
  • oversees the progress of construction work
  • assesses protocols at the hand-over
  • provides training for the village communities and the local project partners in building and operating hydropower stations sustainably.

The project is co-financed by the Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Netherlands.

Results achieved so far

  • Some 37 manufacturers in Sulawesi and Sumatra are now producing high quality hydropower turbines.
  • More than 350 national and district-level civil servants now advise local communities on the building of micro hydropower facilities, using knowledge gained during their training by the project.
  • Following their training, 100 villagers are now able to properly manage and maintain the micro hydropower stations in their communities.
  • 136 villages are currently building hydropower facilities with the support of the project.