International Union for Conservation of Nature

Off- Grid Island Electricity

Workshop – Bunaken Island,

Indonesia

3 – 5 November 2015

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Energy, Ecosystems and

Sustainable Livelihoods

Initiative –

a pathway to prosperity

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OUR VISION

A Just World That Values And Conserves Nature

OUR MISSION

To Influence, Encourage And Assist Societies Throughout The World

To Conserve The Integrity And Diversity Of Nature And To Ensure That

Any Use Of Natural Resources Is Equitable And Ecologically

Sustainable

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Economy

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Nexus between Conservation / Environment and Sustainable Development

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Pivotal Decade – Getting

Sustainable Development right….

ENVIRO

NMENT SOCIETY

ECONOMY

Status Quo

Economy

Society

Environment

Sustainable Development….

Greening Growth

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IUCN Energy Mission

ecologically sustainable,

socially equitable

economically efficient

Accelerate the transition to energy systems that are:

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Participating Countries

• Marshall Is

• Federated States of Micronesia

• Fiji

• Kiribati

• Palau

• Papua New Guinea

• Samoa

• Tonga

• Tuvalu

• Vanuatu

• Niue

• Nauru

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Key Result Areas

• R1 : Strengthened national policies & action plans

• R2 : Increased access to energy

• R3 : Increased share of renewables in energy mix and

energy efficiency

• R4 : Multi-country/regional support for innovative

activities

• R5 : Capacity-building and Research & Information

• R6 : Governance and equity

• R7 : Project management

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Republic of the Marshall Is

• there are two components:

a) Streetlights retrofitting; and

b) Solar PV streetlights

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RMI – Impacts

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Palau - Financing Energy Efficiency in

the Residential Sector

73 energy efficient homes built:

National Development Bank of Palau = 43

homes

Palau Housing Authority = 30

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Palau – Impacts

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Tuvalu

• Two components both completed:

- Solar PV grid connected system and

- Solar PV streetlights

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Tuvalu - Impacts

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Samoa

Greenhouse Gas Abatement through energy

efficiency and biofuel application in the

transport sector

Feedstock - coconut and jatropha oil

• Switched from coconut oil to jatropha oil

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Samoa - Impacts

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Tonga

• Rehabilitation of solar PV lighting systems

in Moungaone and Mango Islands

• Installation of new solar PV lighting

systems in Lofanga

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Tonga – Impacts

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Vanuatu

There are three components:

• Solar PV rehabilitation in schools and

health clinics;

• Wind resource assessment; and

• 75 KW community based hydro power

project

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Vanuatu – Impacts

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A case study

Fiji Correction Services Naboro Institutional

Biogas Plant

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Naboro Biogas Plant

The Problem

• About FJD$48,000 worth of LPG bought annually

• Mangrove for fuel wood = FJD$5,500/year

• Depletion of mangrove

• 700kg of pig waste + 300kg of kitchen waste discharged

into the local stream daily Ecosystem degradation and

biodiversity loss – fauna population

• Unhealthy work environment

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Naboro Biogas Plant Solution

• Build a biogas

plant and bottling

facility for biogas

• Plant can

generate 40 to 50

m3 of biogas a

day - equivalent to

16-20 kg of LPG

• Bottling the

Biogas enables

the other Prisons

to benefit from the

Naboro Project

700 pigs growing to

1000

Gas Cylinders

Naboro Creek

Gas Compressor

Artificial Wetland

Biogas Plant

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Upskilling Requirements

Skill needs

• Design and construction

• Operation and

maintenance

• Management

• Commercial aspects

• EIA

• Linkages between biogas

plant and ecosystem

• Potential CC impacts on

biogas project

• Economic value of

ecosystems

• Knowledge products

• Communication

• Correction Services

Management

• Naboro Prison personnel

• Officers and prisoners

running the piggery and

biogas plant

Who needs upskilling

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Benefits

• Replacement of $ 48,000 worth of LPG annually

• Retention of $5,500 worth of mangroves annually

• Cleaner discharge into Creek = cleaner seas

• Return of creek fauna populations

• Improve livelihoods of people downstream

• Cleaner work environment with related health benefits

for piggery staff

• Estimated organic fertiliser of 100 kg a day can be

produced – back into the prison farms

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Lessons Learnt • Improve access to energy services to all

• Communities engaged in management of environment and natural

resources

• Community governance systems reinforced to involve gender and

strengthen existing systems

• Capacity development

• Economic efficiency, social equity and environment sustainability critical to

any project

• Appropriate technology, policy & regulations

• Long term funding mechanisms

• Low carbon - sustainable development pathway

• Start small – doable

• Partnerships approach

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Thank you – Terima-kasih