We embolden communities to meet their own energy needs.

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locally-managed diesel mini-grids in Myanmar

The mini-grid market in Myanmar is globally exceptional. These systems are a unique opportunity to better understand and strengthen community-based management models, and represents the potential for more holistic and sustainable energy development. While these diesel mini-grids are an opportunity, they have challenges:

INEFFICIENT sub-optimal initial design and capacity gap
EXPENSIVE reliant on diesel and often run at a loss
LIMITED SERVICE operators can't afford to run year-round
EMISSIONS lack of financing for cleaner alternatives

Solution

Teach local technicians to optimize, hybridize, operate, and maintain their own mini-grids

Leveraging the country’s existing 13,000+ diesel mini-grids as learning tools for rural electricians, Mee Panyar rehabilitates or hybridizes these systems while filling the capacity gap in long-term operations and maintenance (O&M).

Community

Both leverage and strengthen existing community infrastructure, services, and social structures

Efficiency

Enable legacy mini-grids to run more efficiently through optimized systems design and hybridization

Capacity

Build technical skills for operations, maintenance, & income generating activities, with inclusive training

Sustainability

Replace existing diesel-based generation with solar electricity, in an economical way

Impact

Mee Panyar's lean approach and training model is designed to address the underlying local capacity deficit and returns control over the system's reliability in the community’s hands.

$300 per household connection cost

for first time access to 24/7 electricity

Direct & indirect job creation

through technician training & employment, and development of productive use businesses