From June 2004 to July 2005, the second exchange program took place. The
Brazilian participant, Gheisa Esteves, worked for Sweco Groner in Norway (see
report activities) and the Tanzanian participant posted in Brazil for two years
concluded his Master’s whose subject is closely linked with the Global Clean
Cooking Fuel Initiative.
For 2006, the exchange continues presenting an important change: the Brazilian
participant will be posted in Tanzania to work for TaTEDO and two Norwegians are
coming to work for REI-LA on the opportunities and barriers of projects based on
clean development mechanisms.
The aims of the exchange program are to set up a long-term partnership between
the organizations, which is the main programme’s objective, and personnel
training in an international environment.
Clean Development Mechanism in Brazil
To be done by the Norwegian participant of the exchange program being posted in
Brazil, the purpose of this study is to analyse CDM project opportunities from
Brazil’s perspective. What are the strengths of CDM? What are its weaknesses,
opportunities and threats? There are analyses that describe and assess projects
about CDM, but the host-country perspective dealing with CDM in the real world
is often missing. This paper could be a step in the direction of filling that
information gap.
Sustainable markets for LPG and ethanol
Brazil over the past 50 years has had the experience of implementing public
policies and directing public and private efforts towards the creation of new
energy markets. This has been the case of LPG and ethanol fuel.
In 1960, LPG had 18% saturation level amongst households and in 2002 is
accessible by 98% of all Brazilian households (42 million) and 93 % of rural
households. In the case of ethanol-fueled cars, from 1977 to 1984, its
participation in the car market production rose from barely zero to 94,4%.
A paper will be written, preliminarily named “Policies for creating new markets
for new fuels: the case of LPG and ethanol in Brazil”, whose objectives are to
present an overview of the context and articulation of public policies and
private interests in creating a sustainable market for fuels; to present the
main factors that may explain the chosen successful cases and discuss how public
policies can have similar impacts nowadays.
Workshop Energy Efficient Lighting Initiative in Latin America: discussing a
roadmap
REI-LA is heading the organization of a Latin American workshop on energy
efficient lighting in Brazil (Campinas, São Paulo) as part of the ELI Quality
Certification Institute's strategy. The purpose of the workshop is to promote
the ELI project objectives amongst audience of potential partners as well as to
propose a ELI’s work plan for Latin America.
Providing wind power and building capacity for teachers
The great majority of Brazilian children is enrolled in school. Nevertheless,
the bad teaching quality is still a great challenge to be overcome. In addition,
there are still schools without access to electricity or poorly electrified. The
rural municipality of Cananéia (São Paulo State, Brazil) fits into this picture,
being one of the poorest communities of the state. The illiteracy level is high
among children, teenagers and adults.
REI-LA was granted by HSBC bank a pilot multi-purpose and multidisciplinary
one-year project in partnership with a Brazilian company (Eletrovento) to
improve schooling and access to electricity in two schools of Cananéia.
Eletrovento is an innovative small enterprise which develops a low-cost,
small-scale wind turbine.
The project seeks to improve the teaching quality through locally need-oriented
capacity building and training of teachers and provide access to electricity
from a low-cost, small-scale wind turbine to the schools in order to provide
sustainable energy services (lighting, refrigeration, television.
Energy efficiency measures in public hospital
This project aims to retrofit the lighting and air-conditioning systems of the
University Hospital located at UNICAMP. In addition, the project will install an
acquisition data system in order to follow up the results of the energy
efficiency measures as well as the quality of electricity in several different
consuming points.
It is expected to reduce, respectively, in 46% and 32% the current installed
power of the lighting and air-conditioning systems.
The project is funded by a local utility through the funds of its 1% charge for
Energy Efficiency. The university has signed a performance contract with the
utility and REI-LA is part of the team that is in charge of the evaluation of
the project.
Demonstration site on solar and wind power
The project involves performance monitoring of the hybrid system and collection
of data from meteorological data collection equipment as well as to use the
demonstration site as a laboratory for students. REI – LA has joined efforts to
a Brazilian technological company which is developing wind turbine for rural
areas to undertake research and share resources. The system will be placed in
another site where the wind speed is higher and more stable. And a new building
is necessary to be built. REI-Latin America and its partners were granted by the
State University of Campinas.
The Norwegian participant of the exchange program will also work in this
activity.
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