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Dear reader,
You are receiving the first issue of the International Energy
Initiative-IEI Newsletter. This newsletter is produced by our Latin
American Regional Office. We hope you enjoy it.
Gilberto M. Jannuzzi, Executive-Director, Internatinal Energy
Initiative
Editorial
This is the first issue of the IEI Newsletter, and in fact it
re-launches an old information project E-News supported by IEI years ago.
E-News was one of the very first electronic bulletin produced and
distributed via internet about energy and sustainable development
focussing projects and events lead by energy analists in developing
countries.
E-News was produced out of the University of Campinas with IEI's
support during 1993 up to year 1996. It also featured a discussion forum
for its subscribers, which peaked at about 200. At that time most
subscribers were from India, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Australia,
UK, France, Thailand, Canada, Holland and South Africa. Some old issues
are still available online at http://www.unicamp.br/nipe/enews/
This new version incorporates the changes in format, technology and
also the much greater availability of information existing today. We wish
to disseminate in a very concise manner information about main activities,
ideas, reports and our mission and commitment towards energy for
sustainable development.
The IEI Newsletter wishes to inform interested readers about news and
events conducted by IEI regional offices in Latin America, Africa and
Asia. We hope this can be an important and reliable source of information
to you.
Find out more about IEI (our Global
site)
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IEI's Energy for Sustainable Development Journal
(ESD) |
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| Established in May 1994, IEI's Energy for
Sustainable Development Journal (ESD) is meant to be a vehicle of
communication between Northern and Southern energy actors on the
energy goals and policies as well as with energy plans and projects
in developing countries. It also aims to promote South-South
interactions to tackle these problems.
The latest issue is about coal gasification for China and can be
downloaded from the IEI' homepage.
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South-South-North Partnership Project |
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| IEI-LA (the Regional Office of the
International Energy Initiative) is a partner in a triangular
exchange programme which seeks to strengthen human capacity and
develop a long-term cooperation among organizations from the South
and from the North. The programme involves other two organizations
namely Tanzania Traditional Energy Development and Environment
Organization (TaTEDO) (Tanzania) and Sweco Grøner (Norway).
The project is financially supported by the Norwegian government
agency Fredskorpset and started in February 2003.
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Energy Technology Foresight Exercise in Brazil |
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| The IEI's Latin American office is
participating in a national Delphi exercise whose aim is to give
support and recommendations for prioritizing energy Research &
Development (R&D) investments in Brazil.
The Delphi exercise is conducted by the Brazilian Ministry of
Science and Technology (MCT) and coordinated by the Centre for
Management and Strategic Studies (CGEE). It is part of a long-term
strategy launched in August 2002 by MCT to acquire relevant
information for the country's energy planning formulation.
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Energy Efficiency Standards for Domestic
Appliances |
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| The general objective of this project is to
support the Brazilian energy efficiency law in elaborating the
technical aspects and introducing minimum limits of energy
efficiency for the domestic electrical appliances. In particular,
this project evaluates one-door refrigerators and domestic air
conditioners.
The present analysis is based on Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA)
methodology that consists of applying statistical and economic
engineering approaches to analyze environmental and economic overall
impacts.
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Rural Energy Services: village-based schemes |
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| IEI's Asian office in India is carrying out two
projects on electricity and water supply in rural villages.
One project is about a questionnaire being drawing up to assess
the present and near-term future energy needs in rural villages,
taking into consideration the assessment of other generating systems
based on local energy sources. The other project seeks to increase
the utilisation of the water/energy supply system in one village in
order to deliver other energy services.
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Clean Cooking Options: LPG in the near term |
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| IEI's Asian office is considering the use of
'cleaner' cooking fuels in the domestic sector as a short/medium-
term option for domestic use in India.
IEI has been studying the requirements for and barriers to
families shifting to LPG. Demand scenarios have been projected,
based on estimates of an average family's requirements and selected
growth rates of the number of families.
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Energy Efficiency Improvement in Industrial
Boilers |
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| Over the past decade, IEI has been promoting
the improvement of energy efficiency in various sectors.
The Asian office is now looking at on-line fireside cleansing
treatment of heat exchange surfaces in industrial boilers. The
objective is to remove, without shutting down the equipment, the
deposits formed by the combustion of heavy fuel oil, coal or
refinery gases, increasing heat transfer and, therefore, the energy
efficiency.
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