Advocacy Materials

This poster was prepared by Herbert Wade, Edward Langham, Thomas Jensen, Bruce Clay and Joseph Walter. Apolima is a small island that is a part of Samoa, an island nation located in the central pacific. With current high fuel prices solar power is an economically reasonable alternative to diesel generation and the Apolima island installation is the first of many PV powered mini grid systems that are planned for the Anglophone Pacific Region.

This record captures a series of monthly price review documents for 2016. These price reviews are prepared by SPC Petroleum Advisory Service. Reviews are based on analysis of daily Mean of Platts Singapore (MOPS) and also includes benchmark Saudi Aramco LPG prices (sourced from Gas Energy Australia).

Keywords: petroleum, fuel price, review, Platts, Singapore

This project is implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Gender CC – Women for Climate Justice, with funding support from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) based in Germany.

IUCN is helping the island nation of Vanuatu to utilize renewable energy sources to provide modern energy services and improve health and education services in outer island communities.

In the second biggest secondary school in Tuvalu, IUCN helped provide a better learning environment for 500 students and teachers by enabling continuous power supply through solar.

In Tonga IUCN worked with the government and provided essential lighting to more than 100 homes in three remote islands in the Ha’apai group.

In Samoa IUCN is helping the land transport sector, the nation’s largest consumer of imported petroleum, to reduce its consumption rate by drawing people's attention towards the value of energy efficient vehicles.

IUCN helped to lower fuel consumption in the main urban centres in the Republic of Marshall Islands simply by changing light bulbs.

Awareness article covering energy efficiency initiatives in Palau showcasing energy efficient homes.  To build the new homes, IUCN works with the National Development Bank of Palau (NDBP) through an innovative financing scheme called the Energy Efficiency Subsidy Programme (EESP), which allows the people of Palau to own a new energy efficient home. 

 Pacific Energizer Newsletter, Issue 19, December 2015. Produced by the Energy Programme of the Economic Development Division of SPC.