Dear Christa, I clicked on the links but cannot find the mentioned pages. GTZ has restructured it's web site... Don't you show it any more ? Rolf
Am Montag, 30. August 2010 17:59:53 schrieb Christa Roth: > Dear Stovers, Michael Blunck from GTZ asked me to share the following > with you, which might be of interest also for the stove list. For > inquiries please contact him directly (see CC). Regards Christa > Paper series: Small-scale Electricity Generation from Biomass > GTZ-HERA has looked more closely into the small-scale use of biomass > for rural off-grid electrification. Results are disillusioning. > > Following the hype and frustrations over a global bio-fuel market, > expectations regarding biomass now focus on local power generation in > rural areas of developing countries. International organisations and > donors advocate wood gasification, biogas, and vegetable oil as > sustainable sources for decentralized power supply. Countless success > stories on biomass use for small-scale electricity generation have > been published. > > However, in practice the picture seems to be a different one: many > rumours indicate that the actual successes are not as numerous as the > stories surrounding them. As a governmental development agency, GTZ is > obliged to advocate only promising and sustainable approaches. Hence > the GTZ Programme on Poverty-oriented Basic Energy Services (HERA) has > conducted several inquiries with experts in Africa, Latin America and > Asia focussing on practical operation experience with small-scale > gasification, as well as the use of biogas and vegetable oil for power > generation. Following the analysis of literature and in particular > many direct inquiries with local experts , the survey not only > revealed an abundant number of projects but an equally multitude of > problems and obstacles. > > The assessment resulted in a three-part series of papers on "Small- > scale Electricity Generation from Biomass" covering biomass > gasification (part I), biogas (part II), and plant oil (part III) for > electric power generation. The documents are now available for download: > > Small-scale Electricity Generation from Biomass > > Part 1 - Biomass Gasification > http://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/gtz2010-en-small-scale-electricity-generatio >n -from-biomass-part-I.pdf > > Part 2 - Biogas > http://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/gtz2010-en-small-scale-electricity-generatio >n -from-biomass-part-2.pdf > > Part 3 of the paper series which will cover plant oil for power > generation will be available by the end of this year. _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_listserv.repp.org http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org http://info.bioenergylists.org
