Kiribati

This proposal has been prepared for the consideration of senior officials and Minsters at the SPC-convened Energy and Transport Ministers Meeting being held in Nadi from 31 March to 4 April 2014. It has been developed by ESCAP with the assistance of Dr. Herbert Wade, an independent consultant who undertook missions to Tuvalu (21-25 January 2014), Kiribati (26 January to 2 February 2014), and Vanuatu (4 - 7 February, 2014) 1 to help determine the feasibility of the PRDR through interviews with key stakeholders in those countries.

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Evaluation of the Photovoltaic Power System for the Christian Institute for Community Development, Abemama Island, Republic of Kiribati.

Advanced Regional Training on 'Solar Power' : To provide in conjunction with the Solar Energy Company (SEC) in Kiribati assistance in the coordination of an advanced training programme on "Solar Power" in Fiji. Training programme convened and trainees trained.

Senior solar technicians from Kiribati, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Vanuatu and Marshall Islands attended at an Advanced Regional Training Workshop on Solar Power at the Center for Appropriate Technology
Development (CATD), Nadave, Fiji, from 5 to 9 May 2003.

Conversion of conventional pumping systems (hand pumps) into Solar Pumps in Kiribati : The project will investigate the possibility and necessity to convert conventional pumping systems into solar pumping systems. Emphasis will be given to the economics and the maintenance implications of such a swap.

Objective: To convert all water hand pumps in Kiribati into solar pumps.

Feasibility Study of Coconut Oil as a Diesel Substitute in Kiribati (Inception phase) : In a request addressed to the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission

National Energy Demand Supply Database for Kiribati

This study was undertaken as a SOPAC project, funded by NORAD and carried out under contract by OCEANOR of Trondheim, Noway. The wave data collected are available on a data base at the SOPAC Secretariat in Fiji. In this report the wave climate of the area of the South West Pacific covered by the project, which is bounded by 30"s to the equator and 160"E to 160°W, is described. This area covers the Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga groups, the Cook Islands, Western Samoa, Tuvalu and the southern part of Western Kiribati.

Pacific Energy and Gender (PEG) Network : Gender mainstreamed within the energy sector.
Increased gender awareness in the energy sector.

Energy Mission to the Republic of Kiribati : The Energy Mission to Kiribati was carried out from the 12th to the 17th of April 2003. It was arranged to link in with the mission to the Marshall Islands. The objective of the mission was to work with staff of the Energy Planning Unit on energy projects as listed under the country Task Profiles. Opportunity was taken to meet with staff in other organisations and discuss with them issues relevant to the development of the energy sector in Kiribati.