Renewable Energy: A Guide to Successful Implementation
| By | J Jeyabalasingam, South Bank University, UK, J Bunning Sheffield Hallam University, UK, T Day South Bank University, UK, I M Dharmadasa Sheffield Hallam University, UK, L Gunaratne Energy Forum, Sri Lanka, R Kato Yale School of Forestry and Environmental |
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| Description | From the PrefaceThis handbook is intended as an effort to promote renewable energy technologies as a means of generating energy without polluting the environment. Following a short introduction which lays the context of sources of conventional energy and their detrimental effects on the environment (chapter 1), the established renewable energy sources and their benefits to the society are considered in chapter 2. The main body of the handbook consists of case studies presented from different countries, with the view to sharing new ideas. The booklet has been written to improve public awareness of renewable energy applications, among entrepreneurs, political leaders, policy makers and the general public, with the intention of developing a renewable energy market. In doing so, this publication particularly aims for the use of new technologies in social development and concentrates on the reduction of poverty from society.This is the first publication by SAREP, a renewable energy promotional programme. This programme was launched in 1999, at the Bangladesh High Commission in London, by combining two parallel initiatives to achieve the same target. A group of interested people from London led by Mr Peter Lane, a senior consultant from DSL, was searching for a renewable energy enthusiast to start a programme in south Asian region. This idea had originated after a DTI Trade mission to Japan in 1997. In 1999, I was introduced by Debra Hurcomb, the Assistant Director for South Asia, at the British Council Head Quarters in London, to this group. By this time I had been cocoordinating a Higher Education link (HE-link) programme on this subject over a period of six years. The HE-link was between Sheffield Hallam University and several Universities (Peradeniya, Colombo, Kelaniya, Moratuwa and Ruhuna) and the Energy Forum in Sri Lanka. The HE-link was sponsored by the DFID and managed by the British Council. After the combination of the two interested parties, HE-link activities were expanded to several countries to form South Asia Renewable Energy Programme, SAREP. New initiatives brought South Bank University, the Commonwealth Science Council (CSC) and participating country counterparts together to strengthen the programme. During the past four years, SAREP has shown remarkable progress and expansion, with other countries outside the South Asian region joining the programme, but the SAREP acronym remained unchanged due to its suitability for a renewable energy promotional programme. |
| File size | 1095 kB |
| Date | 05-12-2003 at 11h51 |