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Whats Happening In Household Energy - BP50 - January 2005


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Boiling Point
Front cover of Boiling Point issue 50
Issue 50 (2005) Scaling up and commercialisation of household energy initiatives
ArticleWhats Happening In Household Energy BP50
AuthorHEDON


[top] [end]Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy

The Ashden Trust is inviting submissions for the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2005. We hope to offer five first prizes of up to £30,000 each, for outstanding sustainable energy projects (three for developing countries and two for the UK). The awards are for community-based renewable energy. Overseas applicants will be asked to send a concept note by the end of November (concept note forms are on the website).

Full details of criteria and application instructions can be found on the website: www.ashdenawards.org.

[top] [end]Inheriting the World: the Atlas of Children’s Health and the Environment

A useful atlas on child health can be found at: http://www.who.int/ceh/publications/atlas/en/. The map entitled ‘Indoor Smoke: Breaking Down Respiratory Defences’ can be found on the web at: http://www.who.int/ceh/publications/en/09indoorsmoke.pdf; it is also be available as a poster from the WHO website. Another map highlights how indoor air pollution and poverty are linked can be found at: http://www.who.int/ceh/publications/en/02richpoor.pdf

[top] [end]Vesto Stove wins major design award

The Vesto stove, a multi-fuel biomass cooking stove, has been given the Chairman’s Award as an outstanding example of design excellence by the Design Institute of South Africa (DISA). This is a new type of stove, with a number of innovations intended for use in low income communities.
Figure 1: Vesto stove
Figure 1: Vesto stove
The Vesto is produced by New Dawn Engineering (Swaziland and South Africa). It is the result of a two year project to find increase the efficiency substantially, to reduce significantly the amount of fuel required to cook and simultaneously reduce fire emissions, increase the stove life and offer a measure of controllability of the fire’s intensity. Made mainly of stainless steel, the Vesto cuts fuel consumption typically by 70%. The Vesto is already being marketed in several countries. It contains design innovations including pre-heated primary and secondary air, and it makes charcoal as it cooks. It can use woods normally considered to hard to burn well, compressed sawdust logs and low density biomass briquettes.

Information: Crispin Pemberton-Pigott; Email: crispin@... or Rina King; Email: rking@... Website: www.vesto.co.za

[top] [end]Partnership for Clean Indoor Air

The first electronic newsletter for the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air is now online. If you would like to receive it automatically via the Partnership, complete your partner profile online at http://www.PCIAonline.org. PCIA would love to highlight your household energy and health achievements, events and news in the next edition of the PCIA Bulletin. Please send your contributions to pciaonline@... by January 5, 2005 for the next edition of the Bulletin.

Information: Brenda Doroski, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Partnership for Clean Indoor Air, www.PCIAonline.org, Phone: 202–343–9764
Figure 2: Low-income settlements, South Africa
Figure 2: Low-income settlements, South Africa

[top] [end]PEER Africa – Energy and Environmentally Costs Optimised EECO development

PEER Africa has been active mainstreaming the Energy and Environmentally Costs Optimised EECO development concepts to address integrated low-income human settlement/energy management government policy and strategy initiatives. Two model projects are underway in South Africa, in Johannesburg (Alexandra) and in Cape Town (Atlantis), sponsored by the Provincial or Local Government Departments of Housing. The programme involves two separate pilot projects involving about 9,000 beneficiaries. The programme focuses on reduction of space heating and lighting demand via extensive capacity building programmes with local community leaders. The second area of focus is based on applied research linking energy and fire prevention management. The third aspect of the projects being considered is based on the long term strategy to look into sustainable ways to obtain bridging finance for small scale contractors via loan guarantees and support.

Information: D. Mothusi Guy PEER Africa (Pty) Ltd. Email: dlguysr@..., Tel: +27825796032

[top] [end]Cremasco bioheater combustion system: high efficiency biomass conversion for a sustainable future

A small-scale, high-efficiency, low emissions biomass thermal processor has been designed that can accept a wide variety of biomass feed materials as fuels to generate heat or combined heat and power (CHP). the Cremasco Bioheater processes low-grade biomass fuels, some with very high moisture content, in some cases approaching 70% by weight water. From such wet fuels, the bioheater has demonstrated that it can sustain combustion at temperatures of 1000C to 1200C with no visible smoke emissions due to incompletely combusted organics. For example, the Cremasco Bioheater consumes coffee pulp as fuel to generate heat for drying wet green coffee beans, eliminating polluting coffee pulp and reducing pressures on forestry.

Further information: Frank Scott , Email: Frank Scott: franks@...

[top] [end]Solar PV Electricity for Poor Communities

A technique has been developed so that small solar-pv panels can be easily self-assembled by NGOs to power low cost devices such as radios, torches, etc. New ultra-bright LEDs give light for 10 years continuously and their price keeps falling so oil lamps and candles can now be replaced by these devices which, with the solar panels, last for many years.

DIY Solar powering is quite unlike Solar Home Systems (SHS) as it just intended to make a little electricity affordable for those without mains electricity and has no other use – for example, a radio can be powered for as little $1.We also give information about self-assembly solar cookers.

Information: BioDesign, 15 Sandyhurst Lane, Ashford, Kent UK TN25 4NS biodes@.... Tel/Fax: 44–1233–626677

[top] [end]Innovative renewable energy application initiative in rural Tanzania

Rural Tanzania is targeted in a research project that a Sokoine University (SUA) lecturer, Dr Joseph Mpagalile, is pursuing in the US together with a team of US researchers led by Professor Milford Hanna of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The research, funded by Fulbright African Research Scholarship and administered by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, looks into ways of using solar (PV modules) to power vegetable oil presses. It is expected that the effort to improve small-scale oil processing in rural areas of Tanzania will enrich its scientific and technological development and contribute to worldwide technological development. The project will help rural area communities conserve the environment by using solar energy and vegetable oils.

Information: Dr J. J. Mpagalile, Nebraska University-Lincoln Department of Biological Engineering Systems, Industrial and Agricultural Products Center 228 L.W. Chase Hall, Lincoln, NE 68583–0730. Tel: (402) 472 1758; Fax: (402) 472 6338

[top] [end]Energy services in urban poor livelihoods

Aresearch study, begun in 2003, funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) Knowledge and Research Programme (KaR) is aiming to provide a clear understanding, based on micro-level genderdisaggregated data, of the issues around urban energy supply and use for poor people’s livelihood strategies. The team is headed by Joy Clancy from the University of Twente in the Netherlands working with partners from Nigeria, Brazil and the Philippines and ENERGIA (the international network on gender and energy). The study will collect data on the role that energy plays in enabling poor urban women and men’s strategies to create sustainable livelihood strategies and outcomes. The three country partners will disseminate the results through national workshops and a final international workshop will be held in London in June 2005, which will be followed by a special issue of ENERGIA News.

Information: Joy Clancy, TDG, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. j.s.clancy@...

[top] [end]Domestic Use of Energy Conference 2005

The Cape Technikon, Cape Town 29–31 March 2005 Issues addressed include: sustainable energy provision; aspects from the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development; implications of the Kyoto protocol; environmental legislation; the role of renewables; off-grid electricity supply and subsidised tariffs.

Information: DUE 2005, Nickey Amsterdam, CAPE TECHNIKON, Room 3.09, Engineering Building, Tennant Street, CAPE TOWN, 8001. Email: due@...; Tel: +2721 – 4603658; Fax: +2721 – 460 3701

[top] [end]Indoor Air 2005: The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate Sep. 4 - 9, 2005, Beijing, China

The conference will provide opportunities to exchange new ideas on indoor air sciences, to hear the state-of-the-art technologies, to identify solutions for problems related to indoor air, and to build partnerships within and between sciences such as engineering, medicine, chemistry, microbiology and architecture.

Information: www.indoorair2005.org.cn

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[top] [end]Contents: Boiling Point 50 - Scaling up and commercialisation of household energy initiatives

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Scaling up - Scaling Up Biogas In Nepal – Ten Top Tips For Successful Scaling Up – Rocket Stoves For Sub-Saharan Africa – Designing Stoves For Mass Production – The Ecostove – Programmes Promoting Improved Household Energy In China – Is Gender A Key Variable In Household Energy And Indoor Air Pollution Interventions – GTZ News BP50 – Strengthening Community Partnerships - Dissemination Of Solar Home Systems In Vietnam – A model For Dissemination Of Improved Biomass Fuels And Cooking Devices – Institutional Partnership In Improved Cooking Stove Dissemination – Project Gaia Commercializing A New Stove And New Fuel In Africa - Public Private Partnerships For Accessing Electricity In Rural Areas - Energy News From Practical Action BP50 - WHO and UNDP highligh indoor smoke as the killer in the kitchen - Whats Happening In Household Energy BP50







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