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Installing Wind Turbines to replace old diesel engines at boat factory in Eritrea
C TRADE is one of the Technical Advisors for a $5M Wind Energy Project in Eritrea, where wind turbines will be installed at 7 rural electrification sites funded by GEF and the Government of Eritrea. The excellent wind regime off the coast of Red Sea offers high capacity factors.
Sustainable and clean renewable energy systems such as hybrid solar/wind electric generators can be used to eliminate or reduce carbon dioxide emissions by replacing old diesel, oil, gas or coal fired electric generators which emit greenhouse gases that produce global warming. Carbon sequestration credits or offsets are calculated by the amount of carbon emissions that would have been emitted if a diesel or other traditional polluting electric generator was used to produce the same amount of electricity. Companies and electric utilities in countries can buy these emission reduction carbon credits to replace the emissions from their coal burning electric power plants to meet regulatory requirements. However these carbon credits need to be verified, monitored and certified according to certain requirements such as The Kyoto Protocol to be purchased, traded or sold. The current price of a metric ton of carbon sequestered is about $5 to $10.
The hybrid solar/wind systems are specially designed by C TRADE to maximize the natural resources using efficiency calculations from wind and solar profiles estimated for each region. The projects are site specific with collaborative agreements made by local partners and government agency approval and concurrence. There highly efficient hybrid systems are designed and sized on a case specific basis to cater to the local village and residential home settings to help rural electrification and reduce poverty.
C TRADE installed small hybrid systems using wind turbines and solar panels for rural village electrification in Sri Lanka and to serve as a pilot project for feasibility assessment. The overall goal is for the development of a pilot project to achieve poverty reduction through the provision and efficient use of sustainable renewable energy supply in support of promoting livelihood systems for the poor local communities in off-grid areas of the country within the framework of public-private-civil society partnership.
Rural electrification using hybrid wind and solar systems meet the demands of off-grid communities displacing the use of diesel generators that produce global warming carbon dioxide pollution. Benefits of Carbon Credits " Provide
carbon funds for RE project implementation, Wind/Solar Hybrid Systems
A typical hybrid wind/solar system will provide basic power for a household in a rural community consisting of four lights, a DC fan, radio, battery charger, small TV and a small energy efficient refrigerator for typical loads of 2-3 kWh/day.
C TRADE will establish local facilities to assemble, install, and service the hybrid 1 kW or 3 kW systems with battery storage. These facilities will include training of staff, education and marketing for local customers. By providing local service and maintenance, the expertise gained by the trained staff should be able to help train other areas considered for expansion. As a result, the local communities will be trained to install, operate, and maintain the hybrid solar/wind energy systems, to demonstrate the potential for job creation, training, and market penetration of sustainable renewable energy technologies, with economic and environmental benefits to the participating communities. C TRADE organizes the infrastructure and feasibility studies to provide financial, education, technical assistance and training to off-grid local communities to implement sustainable renewable energy installations using local resources. This program promotes local energy self-sufficiency with its own source of electrical power utilizing its solar and wind resources to foster employment and economic development in rural poor communities.
Feasibility studies will demonstrate the viability of installing renewable energy technologies in remote off-grid poor communities with the capability to replicate and expand such installations in other areas. The project is intended to demonstrate that this kind of system can provide highly reliable and sustainable renewable energy with community benefits to reduce poverty. Site surveys and assessments will be completed to measure and recognize the wind resource potential available in off-grid rural communities that could be commercially utilized to its benefit. This experience will help make informed decisions when considering the benefits and risks of encouraging large-scale wind/solar power development in other areas.
C TRADE
is an environmental consulting company that has worked on electric utility
power projects since 1985. The company specializes in hybrid design solutions
integrating solar and wind systems with carbon sequestration benefits
including training and funding local poor communities in sustainable forestry
and sericulture techniques. Funding sustainable renewable energy projects can be supported by certified carbon credits which are off-sets generated by displacing the use of fossil fuels that pollute carbon dioxide worldwide. C TRADE designs carbon sequestration projects that are monitored, verified and certified to facilitate carbon funding through agencies such as the International Utility Efficiency Partnership, Climate Trust, and the Protype Carbon Fund. These partnerships foster international funding of carbon sequestration credits to promote reduction of greenhouse gases. Electric companies are partnering with international agencies to fund clean energy investment and carbon sequestration technologies between U.S. and developing countries.
C TRADE has established contractual agreements with EUEC, Tucson, Arizona to serve as a platform for the technology transfer, information dissemination, specialized educational and training workshops in current aspects of sustainable renewable energy, carbon sequestration, global climate change and other aspects to help infrastructure development.
C TRADE
has colaborative agreements with Tetra Tech to provide professional services
from local offices in the country. C TRADE has extensive experience worldwide
in the areas of sustainable forestry management techniques that produce
carbon credits, employing and training poor communities to grow trees
for carbon sequestration, or use sericulture techniques for growing cash
crops intermixed with trees for buffer zone management. Contact Information For more
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