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 Number 16 |
June 2010
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Editorial: Tweet us!
Dear reader,
Welcome to the 16th issue of the International Energy Initiative (IEI)
newsletter.
It is a pleasure for us to announce
that the International Energy Initiative is now on Twitter.
In addition to our quarterly newsletter, we intend to get our readers
even closer to us, to engage locally and globally, so as to promote
energy for sustainable development. We believe that the good use of
these social network initiatives are an important tool in this
engagement.
Then,
we warmly invite you to 
Enjoy your reading!
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 Energy for Sustainable Development: June 2010
- The Indian National Initiative for
Advanced Biomass Cookstoves: The benefits of clean combustion
- The impact of increased biodiesel
production on the greenhouse gas emissions from field crops in Canada
- Lessons for low-carbon energy
transition: Experience from the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Partnership (REEEP)
- Energy use and energy efficiency
development in the German and Colombian textile industries
- Grid interconnection of renewable
energy sources: Spanish legislation
- Evaluation of small axial flow
hydrokinetic turbines for remote communities
- Analysis for cost estimation of low
head run-of-river small hydropower schemes
- The structure of household energy
consumption and related CO2 emissions by income group in Mexico
- Domestic energy consumption
patterns in urban Bhutan
- Potential to produce biohydrogen
from various wastewaters
- Exergy analysis of ice storage
air-conditioning system with heat pipe during charging period
- Power supply for farm monitoring
application
ESD is a peer-reviewed journal encompassing energy issues
(technologies, goals, and policies) from around the world, but focusing
on developing countries.
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 Energy for sustainable agriculture: one more
project concluded
The Asian Regional Energy Initiative of the International Energy
Initiative (IEI) has just completed its project "Integrating energy
conservation practices towards sustainable agriculture: the case of
small farms in India". The objective was to demonstrate improvement in
the efficiency of energy-resource use in agriculture, and thereby
conservation of resources and sustainable improvement in livelihoods,
integrating benefits for the rural folk, the infrastructure utilities,
and the environment.
The planned demonstration of improved irrigation and manuring practices
was implemented at a sample of 50 small farms.
The main financial support for the project was provided by the Wuppertal
Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (Germany).
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 Compiling experiences on irrigation efficiency
implementation
Irrigation in India has become increasingly dependent on groundwater,
with the consequent impacts on groundwater availability and on energy
use for its extraction. The Asian Regional Energy Initiative of the
International Energy Initiative (IEI) has compiled the information
available from three decades of experience with respect to efficient
groundwater extraction and use for agriculture.
This compilation has two purposes. Firstly, to begin a repository on
such reports that is publicly accessible and can be expanded with more
documents. As importantly, IEI intends to elicit lessons from past
experiences that would benefit future programmes, thereby improving
groundwater-based irrigation and conservation of energy and water.
The main financial support for this project was provided by the Prayas
Energy Group.
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Measurement & Verification of a low-income
energy efficiency program in Brazil
Electric utilities in Brazil are investing about 80 million dollars
annually in low-income energy efficiency programs, about half of their
compulsory investments in end-use programs under current regulation.
Since 2007 the regulator has enforced the need to carry out Measurement
& Verification plans for the programs delivered.
The IEI Latin American office is currently participating in one of
these programs by designing and deploying a Measurement and
Verification Plan to assess the impacts of a lighting and refrigerator
replacement program in some Brazilian slums. Feedbacks from the
evaluations performed allow the improvement in the design of new
programs for low-income households.
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From www.solarnor.no
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A drawback for polymeric solar thermal collectors
Early 2009, the magazine Sun & Wind Energy headlined if
plastics would be the material of the future for solar thermal
collectors. Quoting the article, "experts believe that plastic
collectors will play a significant role in the solar thermal sector
within a decade. But there is still a long way to go before this
becomes a reality".
Although flat plate collectors are still in their infancy, a Norwegian
company that produced them went bankrupt by the end of 2009. The
company was renowned by its 15-year research activities on developing
the technology together with universities and with one of the largest
experts industries in providing engineering thermoplastics solutions.
But experts from the field still envisage an important role for
plastics in the field, but with a great deal of research before.
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Sustainable Energy News
This
section provides news and information about relevant initiatives
regarding the progress of sustainable energy efforts from the
developing world. IEI is currently establishing a network of contact
persons for dissemination of relevant sustainable energy news. This is
a great opportunity to make projects from various parts of the world
known. Please let us know if you are interested in being such a contact
person. We will be happy to acknowledge names of all contributors in
the newsletter.
UN report pushes for energy access
and efficiency to fight poverty and climate change
From Clair Marrey, HEDON
Household Energy Network
The Advisory Group of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon proposed the year of 2030 as
the target to achieve universal access to energy and
to reduce global energy efficiency intensity by 40
percent. The report can be downloaded here.
The rural
electrification initiative
From Jonas Sandgren and Tor Fossan, SWECO
During 2009 Norad carried out a
project to increase focus on rural electrification. The aim of the
project was to formulate approaches for the Norwegian development
cooperation to work more systematically on the issue.
The Norad report 18/2009: "Norwegian Development Assistance to
Rural Electrification" is a result of the project. The report is a best
practice guide for planning of Rural Electrification
projects. It is not the final answer on how to do rural
electrification, but an effort to collect best practice and to give a
platform for further improvements. More.
Cookstoves:
The Secret Weapon Against Poverty and Climate Change
From Clair Marrey, HEDON
Household Energy Network
"Stoking up a cookstove revolution is the way to beat poverty and
climate change", says the Ashden Awards which has over the past decade
rewarded and championed some of the world's leading stove programmes.
The organization released a reportreflecting
what Sarah Butler Sloss, Founder Director of the Ashden Awards for
Sustainable Energy, says: "There is now a compelling case for getting
improved stoves to millions more people. (...) Better stoves improve
health, save lives, help mitigate the effects of climate change while
also saving money". More.
Database
on bureaucracy hampering the installation of photovoltaic systems
launched
From PV Legal Newsletter - May 2010,
Issue n° 1, PV
Legal Project
On 17 May, the PV Legal consortium
has launched the largest and most comprehensive online database,
gathering detailed quantitative and qualitative data on project
development processes and bureaucratic barriers hampering the set-up of
photovoltaic (PV) systems, in 12 EU countries. This project, funded by
the European Commission's Intelligent Energy for Europe programme, aims
at reducing bureaucratic barriers holding back the development of
Photovoltaic (PV) energy installations throughout Europe. More.
GVEP
International annual review: inspiring case studies
of business-led renewable energy solutions for small communities
From GVEP International newsletter -
April 2010, GVEP
International
GVEP International has released its
annual review this week. The report is packed with inspiring case
studies of business-led renewable energy solutions for small
communities - creating bioethanol from waste milk whey, for example, or
producing fuel and power from tyre recycling. More.
Roadmapping
25% of power generation from solar
From
IEA OPEN Energy Technology Bulletin No.68, IEA-International
Energy Agency
By 2050, up to one-quarter of global electricity generation could come
from solar energy. Analysis in two new IEA Energy Technology Roadmaps
shows how a combination of solar photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating
solar power (CSP) could be generating 9 000 Terawatt hours of power by
mid-century. More
Electric
vehicles: matching variable electricity supply to demand
From
IEA OPEN Energy Technology Bulletin No.68, IEA-International
Energy Agency
Patterns of electricity demand are often hard to match with patterns of
electricity supplied from variable renewable sources like wind or
photovoltaics. To help bridge the gap, electric vehicles are well
placed to act as grid-connected electricity buffering capacity,
ultimately saving money for grid operators and energy suppliers alike.
The potential of exploiting synergies between transport and
renewables-based power production through electric vehicles is explored
in the newly released report "RETRANS - Opportunities for the Use of
Renewable Energy in Road Transport - Policy Makers Report", published
by the IEA Renewable Energy Technology Deployment programme (RETD). More
Contact Persons List
Carlos
Jacome, UNDP Consultant for the Ministry of Energy and
Mines (Equador)
Amanda
Luxanda, Regional Manager of the REEEP Secretariat for
Southern Africa (South Africa)
Clair
Marrey, HEDON Household Energy Network
Dr.
M.A. Rashid Sarkar, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh)
Dr.
Jessie C. Elauria, University of the Philippines Los
Baños
Fernando
Martins Torres, Petrobras University
Fernando
Nuno, Leonardo Energy
John
Ledger, Sustainable Energy Society of Southern Africa
(South Africa)
Joseph
Arineitwe Ndemere, Makarere University (Uganda)
Lu
Zeng'an(China)
Lucy
M. Khalema Redeby, Khalema Redeby Consultancy Services
(Lesotho)
Martin
Obermaier, Energy Planning Program - COPPE - Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Pham
Hoang Luong, Institute of Heat Engineering and
Refrigeration, Department of Thermal Energy Equipment, Hanoi University
of Technology (Vietnam)
Prof.
Dieter Holm, ISES Africa (South Africa)
Prof.
Sugathapala, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Moratuwa (Sri Lanka)
Raffaella
Bellanca, HEDON Household Energy Network
Solomon
Quansah, Ghana Solar Energy Society - GHASES (Ghana)
Stephen
Karekezi, Director of the AFREPREN and IEI's board member
(Kenya)
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Latin
American Office
Newsletter Editor: Rodolfo Gomes (rodolfo@iei-la.org)
IEI President: Sribas Bhattacharya (sribasb@gmail.com)
IEI Executive Director: Gilberto M Jannuzzi (director@iei-la.org)
ESD Editor: Gautam S. Dutt (gdutt@mgminter.com)
IEI Asian office Director: Antonette D'Sa (ieiblr@vsnl.com)
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