Renewables

This report was prepared by the South Pacific Geoscience Commission and focused on Samoa. Efficient and effective energy use in the transport sector is a measure of a country’s attainment of sustainable development. Samoa is totally dependent on imported fossil fuels for transport. This reliance on fossil fuels is likely to increase. This country report for Samoa is a ‘snapshot’ of the current situation regarding the transport sector.

This report was prepared by the International Institute for Energy Conservation for SOPAC (SPC Geoscience Division).

The International Institute Energy Conservation (IIEC) prepared the Demand –Side Management (DSM) Program report for the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC). The Nations Development Programme (UNDP) funded a project titled “Support to the Pacific Islands Power Sector” (RAS/92/363) which was implemented through the Energy Division of the South Pacific Forum Secretariat (ForSec) from 1993 to 1996. Building regional capability in all aspects of Demand-side Management (DSM) program design and implementation was one of the key objectives of the project.

Gerhard Zieroth, Renewable Energy Consultant, New Caledonia prepared this report for UNDP/UNESCO Samoa.

This is a  hydropower project feasibility report prepared byTonkin and Taylor International, submitted to the ADB and Samoa Electric Power Corporation (EPC). 

keywords: Samoa, hydro, renewable energy

This report was prepared by Tony Knowles and Erik Middelink of SME Cambodia contracted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Government of Samoa. The proposed project is intended to demonstrate biomass gasification technology. The project will inform policy makers, potential private sector investors and the general public regarding the role that biomass-fueled electricity generation systems could play in the Samoa energy economy and in reducing atmospheric emission  of green-houses gasses (GHG).

This report was prepared by Charles Feinstein, Wendy Hughes and Tendai Gregan of the World Bank. Energy is a fundamental building block for the Kingdom in its social and economic development and in enhancing the livelihood and well-being of all Tongans. In order to assist discussions among Pacific Island states and development partners, this brief outlines how the economic vulnerability of island nations to increasing oil prices and oil price volatility can be mitigated by a “Whole-of-Sector” energy development approach that seeks to balance:

This report was prepared by the Pacific Power Association for the U.S Department of Interior. The purpose of this document is to report on the energy consumption for seven (7) U.S.-affiliated Insular Areas. 

This report was prepared by Frank Vukikomoala,Economic Development Division, SPC.

This report was prepared by Ivan Krishna, EDD, SPC. The project “Productive Utilization of Renewable Energy in the Tourism Sector of the Forum’s Small Island States in the North” or PURE SIS North Tour for short is co-funded by the Pacific Islands Greenhouse Gas Abatement through Renewable Energy Project (PIGGAREP) from SPREP and the Pacific Islands Development Cooperation Fund (PIDCF) from PIF to promote the productive utilization of feasible renewable energy technologies in the tourism sector of the northern SIS so as to promote fossil fuel free eco-tourism and sustainable livel