Clean Energy Initiative: Powering Sustainable Development from Village to Metropolis

Additional Information: Fact Sheet: Global Village Energy Partnership: U.S. Contribution Fact Sheet: Healthy Homes and Communities

Purpose of the Initiative: The Clean Energy Initiative: Powering Sustainable Development from Village to Metropolis seeks to provide millions of people in the developing world with access to affordable, reliable, clean, healthy, and efficient energy services. This U.S.-led, multi-year, initiative has three programs to achieve key goals:

• The Global Village Energy Partnership will increase access to modern and affordable energy services in areas either not served or under-served by current energy delivery systems. (USG lead: USAID)
• Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development will improve the productivity and efficiency of current operating systems, while reducing waste, saving money, improving reliability, and delaying the need for expensive new generating capacity. (USG lead: DOE)
• Healthy Homes and Communities will promote clean transportation fuels (e.g. unleaded gasoline, low sulfur fuels), and healthier indoor cooking and heating practices to reduce the estimated 3 million annual and readily preventable deaths associated with air pollution and unhealthy patterns of energy use. (USG lead: EPA)

Partners:

• Donor Governments: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom and, the United States.
• Developing Countries: Belize, Chile, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uganda.
• International Organizations: United Nations (FAO, UNDP, UNDESA, UNEP), PanAmerican Health Organization, World Bank, World Health Organization, Asia-Pacific Economic Commission and, International Energy Agency.
• Private: American Electric Power, American Honda, Anderson Windows, Astropower, Bechtel, BP Solar Solutions, British Petroleum, Capstone, Caterpillar, Chevron Texaco, Community Development Corporation, Cummins, Dow-Corning, Duke Energy, Dupont, GE Power Systems, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, International Truck and Engine, Lubrizol, International Fuel Quality Center, Siemens, Shell, Ormat International and, EDF.
• Civil Society: Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, American Council for Capital Formation, Association of Import Automobile Manufacturers, Business Council for International Understanding; E+Co, Energy and Environment Policy & Technology Institute, Engine Manufacturers Association, Global Environmental and Technology Foundation, Global Environmental Management Initiative, Greening Industry Network in Asia, Greenstar, Health Effects Institute, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, International Petroleum Industry, Environmental Conservation Association, Manufacturers of Emission Control Association, Natural Resources Defense Council, Physicians for Social Responsibility; Resource Mobilization Advisors, SELCO, SELF, Shell Foundation; University of California/Berkeley’s Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, Winrock International, and WRI.

Partnership efforts to date: The U.S. Government is working with other governments, international financial institutions, industry and NGO partners to implement Clean Energy Initiative activities in a range of countries over the next calendar year. These activities will focus on increased access to modern energy services, energy efficiency, cleaner fuels and improved air quality. The U.S. Government has formed an interagency working group (including the Department of State, USAID, DOE, and EPA) that is working through U.S. missions and embassies worldwide to identify appropriate development activities to be implemented in the coming year.

USG Points of Contact: Agency for International Development: Griffin Thompson (Phone: 202/712-1864; Email: gthompson@usaid.gov); Department of State: Robert A. Manning (Phone: 202-647-8939; E-mail: r.manning@state.gov); Department of Energy: Larisa Dobriansky (Phone: 202/586-1524; E-mail: larisa.dobriansky@hq.doe.gov); Environmental Protection Agency: Elissa Feldman, Indoor Air, (Phone: 202/564-6451; E-mail: feldman.elissa@epa.gov), and Jane Metcalf, fuels and vehicles (Phone; 202/564-6451; E-mail: Metcalfe.jane@epa.gov)