Monday, January 28, 2013

Greg Barker Leads Low Carbon Trade Delegation To East Africa
Minister of Sovereign state Greg Barker impulse rule a body of UK business leaders to East Africa from Monday 1 October - 5 October.

The pact body impulse get key over joint and all-embracing dissection information to present opportunities on renewable energy and investment.

The body impulse perform business to business accomplishments, get-together likely at your house followers as wellspring as influential members of key international business financing institutions. In adjunct, communicate impulse be a normal of expert briefings on the business and political toughen, exactness the challenges and opportunities of accomplish business in East Africa. The predict impulse likewise be an outlook to perfect, exposition and assign UK strengths and sharpness happening this dissection.

Minister of Sovereign state Greg Barker said:


"The supporting aim of this alter is to support the UK as the partner of conclusion and open doors to completed pact and investment opportunities for the UK's low carbon assets and financially viable armed forces industries.

"East Africa, has weighty likely for new renewable energy projects, including wind, solar and geothermal making the area a potentially thriving destination for international business investment. I am for all you are worth enthusiastic to be principal this low carbon pact body that impulse every one rally UK toughen variance objectives and bring out new investment opportunities.

"It impulse likewise distribute opportunities for a circulation of key UK squad in the renewable energy stock to be cause of this challenge, combining every one investors and developers in a discussion with the region's greatest extent over policy and alternative makers, every one political and commercial".

George Percy of Cluff Geothermal Ltd said:


'We are delighted to see the UK Official putting their hindrance to the rear low carbon technologies such as geothermal energy, which has immense likely to distribute cheesy and clean power to the countries of East Africa. It likewise offers a large export stock and the Feel Assignment impulse be an superior outlook to support British business in what is a durable cumulative dissection globally. Greg Barker has been a portly supporter of geothermal technology and he has recognised that UK engineering and business sharpness money we are wellspring placed to tap inwards this unwisely expanding stock. He requirements to virtuous make established that they do so, in a area where the UK has portly previous and business acquaintances.

Julian Richardson of Parhelion said:


"Parhelion is delighted to be union Minister Barker on this clean energy pact mission to East Africa. London is the general snooty in shelter armed forces and using shelter stock reserves to hindrance the development of clean energy policy and deployment of renewable energy technology in this area has many shared benefits. It is good to see UK government perpetual to hindrance the clean energy, toughen and development propose and at the enormously label functioning to hindrance all-embracing dissection business."

Bump Simpson, Managing Better of UK carbon project development specialists co2balance said:

"We are enthusiastic about the outlook to hindrance the up-coming pact mission to East Africa on 1 October with the Rt Hon Greg Barker MP. We envisage that by our before plunk participation in these low carbon projects, we can virtuous every one the UK businesses and the start settle communities, maximise the benefits outmoded to them, every one economically and in clean energy development, allow and resources from the hindrance of the general carbon stock. The hindrance of DECC is clip in securing the prepared on a plane of achievement and greeting in the start countries."

Charlie Miller, Center and Partnerships Director, SolarAid said:

'This pact mission is a immense outlook to exposition the principal share British businesses and NGOs are playing in eradicating the kerosene kerosene lamp from Africa, plus accommodate a stock for microsolar lights. These lights careless up involving 10 and 25% of take in finances as a outcome of inexpensive kerosene use - first city which is reinvested in robustness, education, small businesses and lessening. Utter siding with elder the flanking decade is leave-taking to allow a weighty impact on economic rise spanning the continent, whilst falling carbon emissions'.

David Watson of Temporis Metropolis said:


"Temporis Metropolis is enthusiastic by the opportunities for renewable energy in Africa, in mum as the shape of energy from these technologies drops underside spoken sources. Their circulate word-process likewise has the likely for large transformational luggage"

Alan Thomson Better of Arup said:


"Arup is greatly enthusiastic about the immense likely we see spanning East Africa. This area combines a thrift of natural resources with diminutive economic rise and immense nearest and dearest who allow authentic energy and expect for the planned. So this is a work on plinth for us to intervention mutually with our followers in the area and durable plight to new strict frontiers, course-plotting earlier every of the development challenges fraternity has faced in other parts of the world."

Tom Rippon of Parsons Brinckerhoff, said:


"At Parsons Brinckerhoff we reflect this to be a major label in the development of the East African power dissection. We mistrust that the deployment of low-carbon technologies currently impulse allow durable and weighty benefits for these nations. We allow a long journal of sending consultancy armed forces in the area, and are finale to intervention with government officials, to your house ministries, and in-country experts to itemize a low-carbon planned for Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania."

Sally Hancox MBE, Better of Gentoo Green, cause of the Gentoo Classify said:

"Gentoo is a profit-for-purpose organisation with a vested concern in sustainability. Our mission is to re-invest any returns or surpluses we make fend for inwards the communities in which we intervention. At that moment, I'm strangely strange, from a pact and business situation, to see what insights I can allow inwards the likely of solar Photovoltaics (PV) in the context of the lives of African nearest and dearest.

"I'd matching to instinct any learnings fend for to Gentoo and slap our triple-bottom-line business beliefs to this. Affect for me would show mercy to continuation able to convert this inwards every products or armed forces that we can concoct or co-ordinate at Gentoo, and re-invest them to increase in intensity everything we look the technique of Living, for the nearest and dearest and the communities in the areas that we predict."

KENYA is ornately prot?g on hydro and thermal electricity power production with innocently 28.9% of the to your house associates combined to the to your house power framework. Kenya was the cap African settle to subject geothermal power. The projected geothermal license is involving 7000MWe -10000MWe devoted in the Gash Pass by. As of December 2011 innocently 198MW was generated for electricity. As cause of 'Kenya Regard 2030' the government has obtainable hindrance for green energy with the aim of joy Kenya inwards a middle-income economy. The sites explored by Geothermal Development Set (GDC) that are commercially business-related allow been tendered i.e. Menengai (400MW) and Bogoria-Silali (800MW) seeing as other sites are continuation explored, creating likely opportunities for PPP initiatives. Kenya likewise houses Africa's largest wind farm, the Lake Turkana Spiral Job with a license of 300MW. This project is defeat to be fortunate equipped by 2014.

ETHIOPIA has an serious likely to generate 60,000 MW of power of which 45,000 MW are from hydro electricity, bonus 10,000 MW are from wind and 5,000 are from geothermal sources. So far it has harnessed innocently 2,140 MW of this projected likely. Out of the total electricity production, 98% is generated from hydropower seeing as innocently 7MW is generated from geothermal power. The gust 5 engagement development plan (the Get out of bed and Switch Precedent) picture mounting the gust power generation license to 10,000 MW by 2015.

TANZANIA has a likely of 650 MW of geothermal with a menace of completed large scale power generation, with temperatures of up to 255 degrees Celsius (dry mist). So far 50 sites allow been celebrated as opportune for development. Stage allow likewise been later than usual developments in wind power projects in Tanzania. Some sites allow been investigated with two likely locations (Makambako and Singida), with midpoint wind speeds of 8m/s. The Tanzanian government is finale to increase in intensity energy ease by diversifying the energy mix and is looking to grasp ways at how to develop the diversification.

PARTICIPATING COMPANIES AND Set Meeting


* Aldwych Global - Bump Gammons, Baptiste Berges, Christian Wright

* ARUP - Alan Thomson


* Erode Determination - Thomas Owino, Thomas Morton

* Erode Alter Metropolis - Alfred Evans


* Cluff Geothermal - George Day, Kevin Mallin, Michael Feliks

* CO2 Report - Stephen Hewson, Paul Keir, Bump Simpson

* EGS Capacity - Guy Macpherson Exhibit


* Disclose - Steve Adeyemo-Phillips, Kieren Tarpey

* Gentoo Green - Sally Hancox MBE, Michelle Meldrum

* OST Capacity - Oliver Soper


* Parhelion Underwriting - Julian Richardson

* Parsons Brinkerhoff - Tim Rippon, Richard Wearmouth

* Lunar Aid - Charlie Miller


* Sunnymoney - John Keane

* Southern Lunar - Howard Johns


* Ruddiness Ventures - Andrew Carruthers, Steve Beck

* Temporis Metropolis, LLP - David Watson


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