Studies
Domestic energy. Forestry management Bio electricity
Definition of the Wood and Biomass Energy Strategy in the framework of the Rural Electrification and Transmission Project (RETP)
| Country : | Cambodia . |
| Client : | Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy of Cambodia (MIME) . REF - Rural Electrification Fund |
| Start Date : | July 2011 |
| Completion Date : | December 2011 |
| Value of services : | 92 356 € |
| Funder : | World Bank |
| Associate/Partner : | CCDE (Cambodia Consulting Development Engineering) |
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| Description : |
The objective of The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) is to prepare a comprehensive and integrated Rural Energy Strategy and Implementation Plan, that included both electricity and non-electricity energy (prominently household cooking, heating and lighting and rural industries), that assisted the RGC: (i) achieve its household electrification target of 70% by 2030; and (ii) provide more modern, efficient, and less expensive energy supply and services to the rural household and industries and assist industries in the more efficient utilization of energy supplies. This plan has been divided into two modules: (i) Energy Strategy and Implementation Plan for Rural Electrification and (ii) Energy Strategy and Implementation Plan for Biomass Energy Supply and Demand. The objective is to lessen the negative impact of fuelwood consumption on the environment and woodlands and forests by establishing a policy and an implementation plan for : – Providing sustainable supplies to meet the demand at reasonable prices from wood fuel supply sources, biomass residue including rice husks, animal dung and agri-business processing plants and rubber plantations. – Improving the efficiency and introduce improved technologies into all aspects of wood-sourced energy and biomass residue supply and demand chains; – Improving the lives and income of the marginal poor that are presently engaged in the above supply and demand chains. |
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| Description of the Actual Services Provided | - Preparation of a data base and review of past, ongoing and planed sector development activities on biomass based energy: households, industries (including garments, brickworks, rice milks and rubber processing, agri-business and cottage industries); - The electricity sector development activities has also been reviewed - Estimation of present consumption and forecast trends in supply and demand; - Evaluation of the potential for efficiency improvement in the wood and biomass residues energy sub-sectors. Evaluation the economic and social feasibility and contribution that can be made long term by environmentally sustainable wood-energy-supplies such as energy plantations and community forestry. - Preparation a wood and biomass energy strategy and action plan that includes an Introduction, the Objective of the strategy, the identification of the main management and technical improvements, Preparation an action plan that identifies the programs and sub-projects to achieve the objective of the strategy. - Conduction of a workshop/conference to disseminate the information to the sector stakeholders. - Supplying support to the capacity building program for the General Directorate of Energy staff by delivering presentations, leading field trips etc. |