Renewables

The 2004 regional Earth day activity was a "Renewable Energy Awareness Campaign" targeting schools throughout the region with the theme "Renewable energy save my island home"

The following materials are part of the Pacific Energy and Gender Network (PEG) initiative to increase awareness of energy and gender issues in the Pacific region. This consits of a flyer and poster.

Quarterly newsletter - In this issue, we have articles covering the south-south capacity building exchange for Vanuatu to develop a fuel pricing template; aggregate resources and how to manage them; the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources supports a local community in Papua New Guinea; The Project for Introduction of Hybrid Power Generation System in Pacific Islands Countries – a regional technical cooperation project by the Japan International Cooperation Agency; and improving energy access in Kiribati’s largest island – Kiritimati.

The SPC Pacific Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (PCREEE) is supporting sustainable energy research. Each application must include the university-approved research proposal and must be submitted electronically to: Dr. Atul Raturi (atul.raturi@usp.ac.fj) and a copy to Solomone Fifita (Solomone F@spc.int).

The SPC Pacific Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (PCREEE) wishes to invite Small and Medium Business and NGOs in the PICTs who are currently or are planning to invest on Renewable Energy and Energy to apply for support from the PCREEE Sustainable Energy Entrepreneurship Facility (PSEEF).

The Pacific Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (PCREEE) has organised a competition on renewable energy & energy efficiency innovation.

The North Pacific ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Project (North-­‐REP) provided technical assistance and partnered with the Action for the Development of Marshall Islands Renewable Energies (ADMIRE) project to install wind resource monitoring equipment in Jaluit, Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Wind monitoring equipment and data collection is being carried out by the Marshalls Energy Company.

The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) consist of four States: Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk and Yap, each, except for Kosrae that doesn’t have outer islands, have their own Outer Islands’ Solar Electrification Programme. These programmes are developed by the various States and included in the state energy action plans. All the four states have set‐up an energy workgroup in which the state utility plays an important role. There is no national outer island electrification programme in place.

The area of the island Pohnpei was mapped with very high resolution image data (VHR), which allows: a) a stratification of the coconut area into three different densities; and b) a counting of coconut palms from the image data.

This is very precise synoptic information and provides a clear picture of the area. There was cloud cover over about one third of the island preventing image analysis, however, this was mostly in the mountain region where coconut palms are not planted.

The European Union and Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) partnership through North-REP (North Pacific ACP Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Project) has installed solar PV micro-grids in the outer islands of Yap. A total of 279kW of solar PV capacity installed as 10 micro-grids in the five outer islands of: Mogmog – Ulithi, Falalop – Ulithi, Fais, Falalop Wolea and Satawal.