Ehsan-Ullah-Khan The Smart Villages workshop was organised in Pakistan as continuation of the regional engagement in South Asia. The Pakistan workshop aimed to glean insights from the country’s experience of off-grid energy provision to remote rural communities through the deployment of micro-grids. In particular the workshop aimed to tease out the enabling framework conditions that have been vital for the deployment of micro-grids in remote areas of the country. It is hoped that the workshop provided relevant insights to other countries in South Asia and globally that seek to establish frameworks supporting the growth of micro-grids. The workshop will address the following main questions: o What are the challenges encountered in deploying micro-grids in Pakistan and how have they been overcome? o What framework conditions have acted as enablers or have hindered the success of micro-grids in Pakistan? o How have these framework conditions evolved and what are the lessons for other regions that seek to deploy micro-grids? o How can these framework conditions enable the productive use of energy to improve livelihoods, health and education outcomes?

1. An association of the private sector Biogas
Construction Companies (BCCs)

2. Introduction
- We are non-profit/non governmental organization that
represents BCCs. Our aim is work to contribute to the
scaling up of the biogas sector in country.
- SBP was established in 2010. The members of SBP are
BCCs, who have constructed nearly 7,000 biogas plants in
the country (5360 under PDBP in 12 districts, and the
remaining in other districts).
- BCCs provide quality construction services with a
warranty and after sales services
Vision :
Pakistan has sustainable production and
consumption of energy, especially in the rural areas.
Mission :
Working with multi-stakeholders to construct
125,000 biogas plants for domestic and agricultural
purposes by 2025

3. Aims & Objects
Promote biogas for cooking to saving money,
health and time of household through Quality
construction and after sales service backup
Improve rural environment, contribute to stop
cutting the trees and discouraging wood
Construct larger biogas plants for power
generation, for water lifting and running
generators
Work for members’ welfare, capacity building and
coordination.

4. Achievements
SBP members have Installed over 7,000 plants in
last six years (both in the PDBP districts and other
districts)
Successfully installed larger biogas plants for
power generation
Undertook awareness raising of BG farmers for
better use of bio slurry (reduce use of chemical
fertilizers and increase profits)
More than 50,000 beneficiaries of BG
 BCCs employees > 1,000

5. .
SBP members have been trained and mentored by
RSPN’s PDBP with support from the Embassy of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands, and with the technical
support of SNV. SBP members have visited various
regional countries for experience sharing, and have
seen the achievements of BCCs in those

6. Employment Generation
Each BCC have 5-7 masons and 30 laborers, 1 supervisor
=Total 37*27= 999
Mixer makers 20
Stove makers 8
Plumber 25
BCCs 27 27
Total = 1079

7. Quality Control
SBP has a quality control Committee to ensure
quality constructed BG plants.
Any BCC not meeting the quality control will be fined
Rs. 5,000 to 20,000, and will be asked to correct the
faults.
Persistent faulters will have their membership
cancelled

8. Employment

9. After sale service
Unique quality of our program is the warranty on BG
plants (4 years under PDBP) and after sales service.
Post PDBP
SBP members have agreed to continue working the
BG sector, and continue to identify households for BG
installation at full cost
SBP members have also agreed to give limited period
discount of Rs 10-20,000 per BG plant in order to
promote more plants

10. Bio slurry use as
fish feed
A fixed dome design biogas
plant. Bio-Slurry of this
biogas plant used in fish
pond. — in Jhang.

11. Quality as per Int. standard

12. Water lifting with biogas

13. Water lifting with biogas

14. Poor family with BG

15. Cooking with BG

16. Commercial Biogas Plant

17. BG power Generation

18. At Sargodha

19. Thank you!
-SBP wants to thank the Embassy of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands for all their support
-SBP wants to thank RSPN for all the support
through PDBP
-SBP wants to thank SNV for all their technical
support

20. Thank you
SBP wants to thank its member BCCs for ensuring quality.
And, finally SBP wants to thank the 7,000 rural households
who have installed fixed dome BG plants, and hence proved
that BG is a viable technology and a green solution to meet
rural energy needs