Light For All Program

MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY

Secretariat of Energy

Jarbas Raimundo de Aldano Matos

What is the Light For All Program

• A government policy to reduce poverty

and hunger using electricity as the

development vector

• Before the Light For All Program, 10 million people living in rural areas had no access to electricity and were mostly in places with lower HDI.(Human Development Index)

A Social Inclusion Program

How

Extension of the network, with low

cost technology

Descentralized generation system,

preferably from local and renewable

sources

Total planned investment: US$ 12 billion

Executors *

CDE

RGR

States

Sectorial Funds - 71,5%

CDE: Funding

RGR: Financing and Funding

Participation of the States - 13%

Participation of 15.5%

Resources

Operational StructureNational Universalization Comission

National Management Committee

Regional Coordinators

State Management Committee

Partners

Profile of families attended

90% of families have family income below three

minimum wages

Of these, 33% earn less than one minimum wage

Realizations (to March 2010)

Connections

Investments (contracts signed)

Persons Benefited (thou.)

2,311 11,556

Homes Electrified (thou.)

US$ billion Federal Government 7

Executor Agent 2

State Government 1

Total investment 10

Funds released by the

Federal GovernmentUS$ 5 billion

Funds paid for by the

Federal GovernmentUS$ 4 billion

Job GenerationEquipment and materials

Estimate

Materials used 5,800,000 posts

852,000 transformers

1,117,000 Km of cables (23 times

around the Earth)

Jobs generated 346,000 direct and indirect

Source: IPEA 2006(May - June)

Purchase of appliancessType of

appliancePercentage

growthNumber sold

(units)

Television 79,3 % 1.6 million

Refrigerator 73.3 % 1.4 million

Music system

45.4 % 908,000

Blender 39 % 780,000

Highlights of the Program

ObjectiveTo ensure the countryside electrification effort through the Light for All Program resulting in higher agricultural production, adding value to production, rising demand for electricity, increased income and social inclusion of the population benefited.

What it isCPC - unit consisting of a set of the machines and equipment for the finishing, processing, conservation and storage of agricultural products, using appropriate technologies and safely and efficiently powered by electricity.

Participants

Rural community organizations duly ordered and established in places already served or prioritized for Light for All Program.

Productive Use of PowerCommunity Production Center - CPC

Quilombolas(ex-slave communities)

Alcântara Municipality - MA

Productive Use of Electricity

Indigenous villages

Terena village

Dois Irmãos do Buriti Municipality - MS

Productive Use of Electricity

Rural settlements(Area of land of limited size, subdivided into lots or rural plots to settle families of peasants with little or no land)

Santo Antônio do Leverger Municipality - MT

Productive Use of Electricity

Rural Cooperatives

Coqueiral Municipality - MG

Productive Use of Electricity

Careiro Castanho - AM

CHALLENGES

TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS• Mini-Hydroelectric Micro-Hydroelectric Hydrokinetic systems Biofuel or natural gas generation Photovoltaic Solar generation Windmills Hybri Systems

SPECIAL PROJECTS