From the neat new things department: An emerging startup called Pavegen has just installed squares of energy-generating pavement in London. Usually, when you think of converting kinetic energy into electricity, wind turbines and hydroelectric dams spring to mind. But people’s steps — thousands upon thousands of them a day — utilize and channel kinetic energy too.
That’s the idea behind Pavegen’s flagship product, a slab of concrete that harnesses kinetic energy whenever it is stepped on. This energy, created by 5 millimeters of flex in the material, is then either stored by lithium polymer batteries contained within the slabs or transmitted immediately to streetlights and other electronics located close by. The current model, made from stainless steel, recycled car tires and recycled aluminum, also includes a lamp embedded in the pavement that lights up every time a step is converted into energy (using only 5 percent of the energy generated).
In an effort to keep the production of the pavement as green and sustainable as possible, Pavegen is partnering with Ryburn Rubber Limited and Advanced LEDs (which has also invested in the idea) to make sure that its components create as small an environmental impact as possible. Launched in July of this year, the company spun out of a project at Loughborough University. It is actively looking for investors.
The average square of pavement produces about 2.1 watts of electricity per hour. And according to Pavegen, any one square of pavement in a high-foot traffic area can see 50,000 steps a day. Based on this data, only five units of Pavegen pavement can be enough to keep the lights on at a bus stop all night. The company, led by 24-year old founder Laurence Kemball-Cook, says it eventually wants its slabs to power automatic doors, ticket machines, neon signs, and even computers and major appliances.
Pavegen isn’t targeting its product exclusively at municipalities. One of its big ideas is to have stores located on busy sidewalks install them in front of their locations to power their signage or any internal electronics. To encourage this adoption, the company says it will brand its slabs for its commercial customers.
The slabs just installed in East London happen to be green — appropriate as a cleantech solution — but they come in a variety of colors. The company believes the embedded lamp is important to inform passersby of their contribution to the clean energy movement. Kemball-Cook believes this will not only help educated the public about the need for innovative energy solutions, but also make them think more carefully about their energy use.
The startup plans to roll out more Pagevgen units in the United Kingdom in the next year, but it envisions installing them one day in Times Square in New York — think of all the electronic displays it could help power there — and other frequented locations in the U.S. One of the ideas pitched on its web site is to install slabs in subway turnstiles where thousands of people — about 36,000 per hour — walk a day to power station electronics. The patent for this application of the technology is still pending.
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Edit ThisSolar energy is power generated from the heat of the sun. The sun illuminates and provides heat and warmth on the surface of the earth. Technologies that capture and store solar heat for an extended period of time can be applied to benefit homes, offices, and factories. They can transform solar energy to run devices that provides warmth and lighting during night time or during cloudy days.
You can make use of solar energy yourself by learning how. Solar energy as a resource is free. However, the cost of materials and equipment you need to tap that resource ranges from high to low, depending on what suits your needs. The good thing about it is that, unlike oil or gas heaters for which you pay every month, you spend less and less for energizing and heating your home with solar energy. Without ill effects on the environment, solar power can cool, heat and ventilate your home.
If you are thinking about having your own solar power for any particular use, it would be easier if you try to find a solar collector first. A solar collector is any material such as clear plastic or glass that can attract and capture the energy brought on by the heat of the sun in concentrated quantities. An example of a trapped or captured heat is when a car that has sat out in the warm sun all day has become exceedingly hot so that you need to open your windows in order to let the warm air escape from your seats and compartments and allowing the car to cool inside. A greenhouse is another example. It has the same effect as its glass or clear plastic walls and roof can attract the heat of the sun and trap it inside to keep the needed amount of heat for the plants to grow normally and efficiently.
Also, tapping solar energy for home use can offer you optimum benefits if you familiarize yourself about what an active and a passive home means. These are two types of solar homes which give homeowners choices on which part of the homes they want energized or what equipment they want run by solar power. Solar energy can be used to warm your home, heat your water, as well as generate electricity for lighting at night. Consequently, you will need to consider the cost which a particular type of solar home entails when you choose the type of solar home you want.
Passive homes do away with special facilities or materials for heating. They merely use their windows for maximized entry of sunlight. The sunlight gets stored by having the doors totally closed during the warmest hours of the day and keeping the heat trapped inside. In the evenings, thick curtains can be used on the windows to keep this heat concentrated inside the home. This allows the natural heat of the sun to warm your home without using any special or elaborate equipment and materials.
Active homes, on the other hand, use equipment such as blowers and pumps. Substitute heating sources also need to be used when the sunlight captured during daytime is not enough for the heat to circulate inside the house. Active homes use specially-designed boxes placed outside to attract sunlight and store the heat, thereby providing more supply of energy to heat the homes. These boxes heat water or air inside pipes and ductwork which in turn facilitate the circulation of heat inside the homes.
In the long term, solar energy is cost-effective. It can heat our homes without spending for artificially-generated heat. Solar energy does not harm the environment and can be found anytime and wherever the sun shines. Read the original article here http://pricelessinvestments.com/investing/personal-investment-in-solar-energy-for-home-use
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Edit ThisGreen buildings seen to boost competitiveness
Singapore: Going green is benefiting Singapore’s competitiveness as it compensates for the island-nation’s reliance on imported energy sources and lack of natural resources. “[Promoting green initiatives] is a way for us to remain competitive. We import everything. If we are not efficient, we will have a problem of supply,” Tan Tian Chong, technology development division director of Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA), told The Manila Times.
Tan said that about 80 percent of the country’s energy source comes from gas, while the remaining 20 percent is from fossil fuels, both sourced abroad.
Because of this, Singapore aims to reduce energy intensity in 2030 by 35 percent from 2005 levels.
Among the country’s first green initiative was a rating system called the “BCA Green Mark Scheme” that was introduced in 2005. Through this, buildings were encouraged to adopt green building technology and design to improve their energy efficiency.
Singapore government data showed that in 2005, buildings make up 31 percent of the country’s total energy consumption, next to the industry sector, which was at 43 percent.
The Green Mark Scheme rates buildings based on their energy and water efficiency, environmental protection, indoor environmental quality, and other green and innovative features that contribute to better building performance.
In 2006, Singapore created its “First Green Building Masterplan.”
The government gave incentives and cash grants to those new buildings that gained Green Mark ratings.
But the Singapore government later deemed that existing buildings should not be left behind in its greening endeavor, so it started giving government buildings a green facelift.
Later, Singapore mandated that all existing government buildings should all have a Green Mark “Gold Plus” rating by 2020.
In April this year, the government improved this scheme by allocating 100 million Singapore dollars for a “Green Mark Incentive Scheme for Existing Buildings.”
Through this, the government will help shoulder the private sector’s cost in transforming their buildings into “green” up to 35 percent, or up to 1.5 million Singapore dollars, whichever is lower, Tan said.
The BCA official, however, said that “green” materials are often expensive since many of these are imported. There is also a learning curve before owners and constructors can fully grasp green technologies.
Because of these, building owners had some initial apprehensions on turning “green,” but financial assistance from the government helped in generating a positive response, Tan said.
The government expanded this initiative last year by unveiling the Green Mark scheme for infrastructure, office interiors and parks.
This year, Singapore came up with its “Second Green Building Masterplan,” which aims to make the island-nation one of the most livable cities in Asia. It also targets that about 80 percent of buildings in the country must garner at least a Green Mark “Certified” rating by 2030.
Through the newly formed Singapore Green Building Council, the country would be coming up with effective certification for green building and consumer products, Tan said. Read the complete original article here http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/business/4904-green-buildings-seen-to-boost-competitiveness-
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BY dangling tax holidays, the government is now prodding businesses in the Philippines to take the green route—be it in the multibillion-peso renewable-energy projects or in the simple retrofitting of offices and plants to make them energy-efficient.
Trade Undersecretary and Board of Investments (BOI) managing head Elmer Hernandez said the green pitch is evident in the agency’s landmark policy of granting income tax holidays (ITH) to revenues earned by companies from their carbon credits.
Through this, Hernandez said even the projects that are not qualified for ITH under the annual Investment Priorities Plan (IPP) will still get government support and become viable.
This, Hernandez said, will show to the world that the Philippines is no longer just after any type of investment. The country is now particularly after the green projects.
Milestone: Carbon-credit sale income
“WE are aggressively promoting investments in green projects. One evident support is our policy on providing incentives to carbon credits. Take note that it was only late last year when the Board decided to consider income generated from the sale of carbon credits for purposes of tax holiday. That is a milestone in so far as BOI policy is concerned,” he told the BusinessMirror.
Carbon credits are being paid by rich countries to companies in developing economies as a way to “atone” for their sins in the past when their rapid industrialization contributed largely in the degradation of the environment.
The commerce of carbon credits, Hernandez said, has enhanced the viability of green projects even if it veers away from the traditional concept of revenue generation.
Manufacturers earn from the goods they produce and services providers get their income from services rendered. The carbon credits, Hernandez said, is like an intangible asset.
Two angles in carbon credits
IN providing ITH to carbon credits, Hernandez said the BOI considered two angles—the investment and the environmental points of view.
In power generation, for example, Hernandez said the country is facing an acute supply shortage by 2013. However, the oil- and coal-based power plants are also the main culprits in the degradation of the environment.
With this, Hernandez said the BOI included in the IPP the renewable-energy projects sector, in order to qualify it to a host of incentives such as ITH and duty-free importation of capital equipment. At the same time, the carbon credits to be earned by these projects, even if they did not come from traditional sources, will not be taxed.
He noted that green-energy projects such as hydro, geothermal, wind and solar are expensive investments so they need every support that they can get.
“Considering our country’s archipelagic nature, renewable energy could best suit our conditions in providing cheap clean energy for our island provinces, especially those areas not connected to the national grid.
This also opens up opportunities for small hydroelectric powered plants for small communities,” he said.
Existing offices and manufacturing facilities, he noted, can also avail themselves of carbon credits when they cut down on energy consumption through retrofitting.
He said companies can design their offices and plants in such a way that natural lighting will be maximized. They can also shift to the energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).
“I’ve seen some companies that already redesigned their manufacturing facilities to allow natural lighting. One example is the Procter & Gamble warehouse. In daytime, they don’t use lights at all without distracting work. We also have the smart buildings of the business processing outsourcing,” he said.
In granting ITH to carbon credits, Hernandez said the green component has become an integral part of the government’s investment promotion efforts.
Positive investor reaction
And the investors have reacted positively. Hernandez said South Korea and Germany have given their commitment to support renewable energy projects in the country.
A group of Filipino-American businessmen has also expressed interest in putting up the first CFL manufacturing plant here.
A foreign firm has also talked to the BOI for the supply of energy sources using liquid natural gas to power air-conditioning units and other office equipment and household appliances.
China’s Zongshen is looking at establishing an assembly plant here for electric bikes that are suited for use in the communities instead of tricycles.
“While we are pursuing investments that are consistent with the Medium Term Philippine Development Plan, we are now giving more focus to the green projects,” Hernandez said. Read the complete article here http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/economy/17842-government-gives-perks-to-green-investments.html
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Edit ThisSure, “going green” around the home makes us feel good about the environment, but does it actually do anything? The answer is yes, according to research published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In the study, scientists found that even small actions around the house can reduce U.S. carbon emissions by more than 7% over the next decade, even before low-carbon energy technologies are developed and national cap-and-trade regimes for emissions are enacted.
According to study lead author Thomas Dietz of Michigan State University, household energy consumption accounts for 38% of the USA’s carbon dioxide emissions and 8% of global emissions.Dietz and his colleagues pinpointed several actions that Americans can take immediately that will make a difference, including home weatherization and routine vehicle and equipment maintenance. Specific actions ranged from one-time tasks such as installing better insulation and lowering the water heater temperature, to ongoing tasks like using the clothesline instead of the dryer and improved driving habits.
“I’ve seen many analyses that make wild assumptions about how hard or how easy it is to get people to change their behavior, without any basis in science,” Dietz said. “Our analysis is based on science. We look at what has been feasible in bringing about changes in energy consumption behavior.”
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Edit ThisListed firm poised to become country’s largest wind energy maker Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. is poised to become the country’s largest wind energy resource producer after securing the nod of the Department of Energy (DOE) to develop several sites across the country. Trans-Asia, through its wholly owned subsidiary Trans-Asia Renewable Energy Corp. (TAREC), recently bagged 10 wind energy service contracts from the Energy department.
With an aggregate wind capacity of 227 megawatts, the service contracts represent the largest ever given by the Energy department to any single energy producer in the country.
Fransisco Viray, TAREC president and chief executive officer, said in an interview that securing the wind contracts is part of the company’s thrust to aggressively pursue being the pioneer and leader in renewable energy resources, particularly in wind resource development.
“After studying the best wind sites in the country, we went for the most. We are just glad that the DOE saw the merits of our proposals and awarded the contracts to us,” he added.
The 227-megawatt wind capacity from the 10 contracts is already more than half of TAREC’s targeted 400-megawatt production of wind power in different locations all over the country, mostly in the Visayas and Luzon.
The TAREC official said that the company will finish its proposed work program for the service contracts within a span of three years before putting up its facilities.
The company’s first batch of wind projects will be put up in Guimaras, which will have a total capacity of 54 megawatts. The project will be done in phases, with the first 8 megawatts to be implemented in 2012.
Besides the said project, Viray said that TAREC is also in discussion with interested local and foreign partners to realize its 400-megawatt wind power target with a total projected cost of $1 billion. Each megawatt of wind power requires about $2.50 million in investment.
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Edit ThisManila, Oct 27 (IANS) Visiting US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has said his government is seeking partnership with the Philippines in biofuel research.
Speaking at a press conference Monday, Vilsack said both countries recognise the need to cooperate more intensively in energy security, especially in the development of renewable energy resources and alternative fuels, Xinhua reported Monday.
‘We are looking at a relationship and partnership with the Philippines in terms of research on biofuels. We recognise and appreciate that you’re faced with the same challenges we’re faced with. You don’t want to be reliant on one form of energy,’ Vilsack said.
The Philippines is the world’s second largest user of geothermal energy, which provides 27 percent of the country’s total electricity production. It is also developing alternative energy sources such as solar and wind energies.
At present, the Philippines is advancing the development of biofuels such as coco-diesel and ethanol blended fuels.’That’s one relationship that we can get at, the biofuel business and I’m
sure that we’ll continue to share information, knowledge and discoveries,’ Vilsack said.
As to American investments in the Philippines, Vilsack said he is optimistic that the Philippines can attract more investors from the US.
‘The reason being is that if we can see investment here, chances are good that there will be resources, services, goods, and essentially benefit US companies,’ he added.
Meanwhile, Vilsack also announced that the US government is providing $8.5 million worth of food assistance from his department for victims of the two storms that affected tens of thousands of people in Central and Northern Luzon, including Metro Manila.
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Edit ThisFor all the hype about being eco-conscious today, seniors could teach the young about walking the walk rather than just talking the talk.
Until I learned about feed-sack dresses, I thought I was living a green life.
Let me explain: Like many Americans, I try to be environmentally conscious when I can. My family’s fall cuisine has centered on the apples we picked at a local farm and, out for a celebratory dinner recently, I ordered a grass-finished steak. While my flirtation with chlorine-free diapers was short-lived, my new baby does own organic cotton PJs.
Then I read 85-year-old Gail Lee Martin’s recent memoir, My Flint Hills Childhood. During the Great Depression, she reports, companies began selling feed and flour in colorful sacks, knowing full well that cash-strapped consumers would turn the material into children’s clothes. In her Kansas town, “we traded sacks with our neighbors and relatives until we had the required yardage” for dresses, she writes.
Hers was far from the only family reusing what was possible — not because recycling was hip but because the family lacked the means to do anything else. Nonetheless, the result was the same: a lower-impact lifestyle than most of us buying organic pajamas can fathom. Indeed, as the current economic doldrums spark interest in tales from other downturns, I’m learning that anyone who lived through the Great Depression saying “use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without” has far more green credibility than the rest of us. We could learn a lot from these heroes for the planet in America’s senior centers — though the economy would be in deeper trouble than it is if too many of us lived as they lived.
Green solutions For all the dire predictions coming out of the Great Recession, few doubt that the 1930s had a sharper effect on people who lived through them. Unemployment hit 25% in 1933, compared with 9.8% now. Such widespread poverty forced people nearly out of the cash economy. As the late Benjamin Roth of Youngstown, Ohio, wrote in his recently published The Great Depression: A Diary, “In most cases the people moving to the farm feel they will at least be sure of plenty of food for their families.”
Talking to older Americans, though, I’m struck by an irony: Living as frugally as possible during lean times, they often concocted green solutions that we now spend good money trying to approximate.
To wash my newborn’s clothes, for instance, I’ve been eyeing Caldrea’s sweat pea laundry detergent made with “plant-derived surfactants” — allegedly easier on skin and the water supply. Louise Lovison, 79, on the other hand, tells me that as she was growing up in the 1930s in Chicago, “there were chemicals to use for housecleaning, but who could afford them?” So her family improvised, collecting scraps of soap in metal nets, using vinegar instead of bleach, adding water in which potatoes had been cooked to the laundry to starch clothes, and using laundry rinse water to water the plants.
To clean up spills, I recently bought Seventh Generation paper towels, made from recycled paper. But Leah Ingram, author of the forthcoming Suddenly Frugal, reports that “I didn’t even own paper towels until I went to college.” Her “ultimate Yankee mother,” who grew up in limited circumstances (albeit post-Depression) in Maine, constantly saved cloth to use as rags. She also repurposed everything else in her kitchen: Velveeta cheese boxes became drawer organizers, and jelly jars became drinking glasses.
Moving on to the refrigerator, I tend to feel good about shelling out the extra $2 per dozen for organic, free-range eggs. But I’ve got nothing on Depression-era folks who raised their own chickens and otherwise ate the ultimate low-impact diet: vegetarian, because they couldn’t afford meat.
While the federal government is urging Americans to pay for energy efficiency upgrades to their homes, the family of Cornelius Votca, 94, of Mankato, Minn., closed off the upstairs bedrooms and the front parlor in their home during winter months to save heat from the coal or wood stove. It had to be dark before anyone could turn the lamps on, and with no radio or TV, no one was using electricity late into the night. You don’t need a carbon tax when people lack the funds to pay the going rate for energy anyway.
This idea of wasting nothing is tough for modern Americans to get our heads around. Raised in a consumer economy in which every problem requires a product, we tend to think “going green” means buying something. Indeed, marketers have found that people will pay more for green products, and so “green” has become synonymous with luxury. Think the Rafael Pelli-designedVisionaire condos in Manhattan,rather than, as Valarie Swanson reports of her late grandfather, Lou Reichel, who was born in 1919 in Columbus, Ohio, building an entire house — from the door knobs to the cabinets — out of materials he got at a swap meet. As her grandfather would say, “Old doesn’t mean trash.” It meant clean it up and use it again.
Buying our way through life Of course, with the average American family spending annually $6,443 on food, $1,801 on apparel and services, $8,604 on transportation and $2,835 on entertainment, the economy as we know it would tank if consumers lived as “green” as our grandparents did. And so it behooves us to believe that an eco-trip to the Galapagos Islands is more environmentally conscious than that oft-mocked American habit of not owning a passport and staying put, or that driving a Prius gives you green cred when the greenest option is not to own a car. But we shouldn’t fool ourselves that we’re doing better by the earth in this enlightened, relatively abundant age. Between feed-sack dresses and organic PJs, I think the sack fashions carry the day.
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Edit ThisLOOKING at tapping the temperatures of the oceans that surround the Philippines, Deep Ocean Power Philippines, Inc. (DOPPI) initially plans to put up several power plants producing 10 megawatts (MW) and 20 MW in Panay Islands.
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“The Philippines is one of the premier locations within the world for our technology due to the extreme thermal difference between the warm surface water and the deeper cold water because those are the two required elements for our technology,” Derek Murray, DOPPI vice president, told reporters.
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He added that tidal energy works on the flow of the ocean’s current, while DOPPI’s technology works on the thermal gradient difference between the temperatures of the ocean.
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Murray said it will take three years to complete their initial project in Panay. “But we’re still in the process of finalizing the study, which will be complete in 6 months,” he added.
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“Apart from Mindoro and Panay, we’re looking at 34 sites which we will continue to study. We feel that the oceans here are the oil of the Philippines and so we hope to locate them, the oceans temperatures to help reduce the cost of energy and that’s our goal over the next several years,” Murray added.
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He also noted that they could also increase the capacity up to 100 MW over the next several projects or in maximizing and using all the 36 sites.
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Murray further stated that investment costs will be similar or a little higher than that of wind and solar project, which costs around $2.5 million per megawatt. “Everything is still indefinite with regard to investments, but the final numbers will be made available upon completion of the design,” he added.
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DOPPI was one of the energy companies the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded their renewable energy contracts.
On Friday, the DOE awarded a total of 87 contracts to 18 companies for the development of biomass, geothermal, solar, hydropower, ocean and wind energy resources pursuant to Republic Act 9513, otherwise known as Renewable Energy Act of 2008.
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The new contracts involve conversions of five existing service contracts/agreements on geothermal and 17 on hydropower.
New RE projects compose the remainder of the contracts, which are anticipated to generate a total of 4,042 MW of electricity, of which 1,257 MW constitute additional power capacity. The projects entail investments in the total amount of approximately P90.4 billion.
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Conversions from existing geothermal agreements with foreign contractor Chevron Geothermal Philippine Holdings Inc. were also initiated and endorsed to the Office of the President for approval.
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Apart from DOPPI, companies that have been awarded contracts include Trans-Asia Renewable Energy Corp.; Constellation Energy Corp.; Century Peak Energy Corp.; PNOC-Renewables Corp.; Energy Development Corp.; First Gen Bukidnon Power Corp.; Luzon Hydro Corp.; Lucky PPH International, Inc.; First Gen Mindanao Hydro Power Corp.; AV Garcia Power Systems Corp.; Benguet Electric Cooperative Inc.; Alternergy Philippine Holdings Corp.; Deparment of Science and Technology-Industrial Technology Development Institute; and Hedcor Inc.
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The companies were issued RE registration certificates on the day of the contract signing.
From the effectivity of RA 9513 in January this year, the total additional power capacity from new RE projects envisioned to be installed within the next five years now run at 1,636 MW. Some 379 MW will come from the seven contracts issued to six RE developers in September.
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On the biofuels sector, the San Carlos Bioenergy, Inc. was the first to be registered under RA 9513, while Chemrez Technologies, Inc., Golden Asian Oil International Inc. and Leyte Agri Corp., were issued full accreditation under the Joint Administrative Order 2008-1 of RA 9367 or the Biofuels Act of 2006.
Under the said order, Cavite Biofuels was also granted certificate of registration with notice to proceed with its bioethanol project in Magallanes, Cavite which will bring the country’s total annual bioethanol capacity to 73.3 million liters once its ethanol production facility becomes operational.Read the original complete article here
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BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—Resident of remote villages of Negros Occidental now have electricity to run rice, corn and coffee mills to process their crops, to provide lights for their children to study at night, and to watch television to keep abreast with what’s happening elsewhere.
This was made possible by 14 renewable energy and livelihood projects worth $1.5 million funded by a grant from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction that was managed by the Asian Development Bank. The projects have finally been completed.
Last Friday, these projects were formally turned over to participating communities at rites held at the provincial capitol in Bacolod City.
Yongping Zhai, of the Asian Development Bank, turned over to Gov. Isidro Zayco the 14 Renewable Energy and Livelihood Development for the Urban Poor in Negros Occidental (Renew) projects implemented by Winrock International.
Turnover
They were then, in turn, handed over to the participating communities, who launched the Renewable Energy and Livelihood Development Foundation to ensure the sustainability of their livelihood programs, said Jim Orprecio, Winrock International project director.
The projects have so far benefited about 2,000 families, Orprecio said.
A revolving fund of $350,000 will also be turned over to the foundation for the continued implementation of livelihood projects in the communities, he added.
The livelihood loans that residents can avail themselves of are for multi-function mills, vegetable farming, backyard animal-raising, trading, handicrafts-making, grains processing and marketing, marine products processing and marketing, he said.
Less poverty
The goal of Renew is to reduce poverty by providing and promoting the efficient use of sustainable, renewable energy supply to promote livelihood systems for poor local communities in off-grid areas, he added.
Turned over Friday were three micro-hydro systems meant to boost agriculture-based livelihoods in the sitio (sub-village) of Balea, Barangay La-gaan in the town of Calatrava, in Barangay Baclao, Cauayan, and sitios Vergara and Magtuod in Toboso.
The other projects are hybrid renewable energy systems that use biomass and solar power for fish drying that were set up in the island communities of Sipaway, San Carlos City and Sagay City; hydraulic ram pump systems in Cauayan and Murcia towns, Kabankalan City and Himamaylan City; a solar lantern-charging station in Sagay City; and two hydropower systems in Murcia and Cauayan.
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