Mini-grid toolkits
Implementers’ Toolkits are primarily designed for mini-grid project developers, with the aim of improving the accessibility of design tools as we move towards mini-grid deployment at scale. These tools assist mini-grid project developers to better determine system sizing, lowest cost generation options, conduct accurate and ready-to-fund feasibility studies, and improve operators’ understanding of systems. This SabahRE2 training video provides a thorough introduction to the used of the Implementer Toolkit. Each of these tools is accompanied by a companion manual. The three tools covered include the following:
Planners’ Toolkits help decision-makers and planners identify the lowest cost, and highest performing energy access options, factoring in costs, generation technologies, emissions, and grid availability. These tools will be especially relevant for policy-makers, as well as development banks and donor agencies seeking to support and advocate for renewable energy expansion. They help establish the link between community needs, renewable energy options, government policy, and financing to guide decision-makers towards more resilient energy systems. To make full use of the mini-grid system optimization tool, a licensed copy of HOMER (Hybrid Optimization of Multiple Energy Resources) will be required and to use the emissions calculation tool, a copy of LEAP (Low Emissions Analysis Platform) will be required.
Planner toolkits
Implementor Toolkits
Case Studies of Successful Mini-Grids in Sabah, Malaysia
What are Mini-grids, how are they relevant to Sabah?
Sabah Rural Electrification Consortium Develops Toolkits for Renewable Energy Mini-Grids
TONIBUNG Mini-Grid Stakeholder Training
The Sabah Renewable Energy Rural Electrification Roadmap navigates towards a future of energy equity, right livelihoods, and wellbeing for Sabahans.
Sabah RE2 Roadmap: Implementer Toolkit Training
The Sabah RE2 roadmap is an imperative for Sabah to begin the change necessary to decisively shift its trajectory towards sustainable development, a low-carbon state economy and climate resilience.
Community development training
Community organising for development and operating renewable energy mini-grids with PACOS Trust.
Training of Trainers: Productive End-Use Business Models
Prototyping Renewable Mini-Grid Community Organising Training: Leadership
Deploying electricity for livelihood & enterprise development
Prototyping renewable mini-grid community organising training: financial management
Mini-Grid Project Management
Technical training
Technical Dimensions of Implementing and Managing Community Renewable Energy Mini-Grids with TONIBUNG.
Micro-hydro mini-Grid Fundamentals Training
Mini-Grid planning tools
Watershed management training
Community exposure visit to CREATE and to Ulu Papar Community Mini-Grids
Renewable energy training
Technical dimensions of implementing and managing community renewable energy mini-grids with TONIBUNG
Case Studies of Successful Mini grids in Sabah, Malaysia, June 2019
What Are Mini-Grids, How Are they Relevant to Sabah, 29 June 2021
Visioning Sabah's Future Together, 30 June 2021
Mini-Grid Policy & Financing, 29 June 2021
Enabling policy framework
Our report on Sabah’s Rural Electrification Policy Landscape demystifies the energy policy and regulatory environment at both federal and state levels and identifies ways to enhance mini-grids and the transition to renewable energy sources, particularly through an assurance-oriented self-regulatory approach.
Also available are these introductory slide decks on Enabling Policies for Mini-Grid Expansion and to Mini-Grid Policy and Financing, both of which were designed for training purposes under this project.
Training of Trainers: Productive End-Use Business Models
Prototyping Renewable Mini-Grid Community Organising Training: Leadership
Deploying electricity for livelihood & enterprise development
Community stories
Sabah RE2: Power To The People Series - Part 1
The Sabah Renewable Energy Rural Electrification Roadmap navigates towards a future of energy equity, right livelihoods, and wellbeing for Sabahans.
Sabah RE2: Power To The People Series - Part 2
In this episode of Power to the People, follow our Consortium partner, PACOS Trust who has been conducting focus group discussions with the men, women, and youth of remote areas throughout Sabah.
Sabah RE2: Power To The People Series - Part 3
In the third episode of Power to the People, we take you to the interior regions of Ranau to meet back up with the TONIBUNG team as they continue to conduct feasibility studies across Sabah.
Sabah RE2: Power To The People Series - Part 4
In the fourth episode of Power to the People, join us as we make our way to the northern coast of Sabah to visit the largest island in Malaysia, Pulau Banggi. Here, electricity is scarce and expensive, with residents relying on indigenous ingenuity to address their energy issues.
Sabah RE2: Power To The People Series - Part 5
In the fifth episode of Power to the People, travel along the easternmost regions of Sabah to Kampung Dagat, a remote village located within the Lower Kinabatangan-Segama Wetlands, Malaysia's largest Ramsar site and a vast mangrove of global importance. The people of Dagat sustain themselves largely on artisanal fisheries, a practice that has been passed down through generations.
Sabah RE2: Power To The People Series - Part 6
In the sixth episode of Power to the People, we travel through dirt roads, with our Government Partners and UK PACT representative Khairun Nisa Zabidi, to Kampung Buayan. Residing in the Ulu Papar region, the Buayan community is far from the state grid and has been powered by micro-hydro systems for more than a decade now. Buayan exemplifies how rural communities in Sabah’s interior regions can empower themselves and self-sustain through the use of community-managed renewable energy mini-grids, building a model that may one day be replicated throughout the state.
