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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

The UK/Samoa Biogas project

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK
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Description
Description
The British High Commission in Wellington has a strong interest in supporting community projects in Samoa that involve renewable energy, enhanced climate resilience and the potential for building sustainable economic opportunity. Building on our biogas projects of 2012 (below) on 21 October 2013 the Samoan Prime Minister turned the soil at a new site for resource testing centre in Apia. After signing a new agreement between the UK and Samoa, the Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Malielegaoi and the then British High Commissioner, HE Mrs Vicki Treadell took their spades and turned the first soil in a new British funded NZ$22,000 bio digester research project.The turning of the soil and the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding is one more step in the renewed and sustainable relationship between the UK and Samoa.
Implementation of the Project/Activity

In 2012 we provided funding for a demonstration project in Piu Village to prove that an invasive vine (merremia) could be a feedstock resource to produce biogas that could be used in cooking and lighting for village households. This demonstration system was installed in early 2013 by BHC's project partner BioEnceptionz Ltd of Wellington, New Zealand. (BioEnceptionz is a not-for-profit social enterprise specialising in showcasing the potential for bioenergy systems in Pacific Islands.) This demonstration project successfully met its objectives. It worked providing light, electricity and liquid fertaliser to the villagers, Parts were easy to install and cheap to repairIn 2013, the Resource Testing and Community Engagement Centre was funded to provide Samoa with the capability of methodically testing and cataloguing the biogas potential of a wide range of possible feedstocks that can be used in biodigesters to produce biogas, including for commercial scale operations. These feedstocks, include green waste such as grasses, vines, foliage drop and foodwaste and, as well, crop residues (such as taro leaves), crop processing wastes, and over abundant crop products with low market value.

Capacity

Samoa Biogas systems is a local NGO. Both the STA and users are taught how to install the biodiversity systems and Samoa's will run the research centre giving full ownership to the community. We intend to fund a small cottage Businesses that makes fibregas tanks rather than rubber tanks which will allow manufacture on the island as well as instillation and maintenance.

Governed

The ˜biogas potential" data that will come from the resource testing programme will provide much needed Samoa-circumstance specific information for a wide range of potential biodigester applications. STA have been heavily involved in our biogas project and more widelyBioEnception or the newly named Samoa Biogas system was a New Zealand-based entity operating under the principles of a not-for-profit social enterprise. It has now renamed it'self as a sign or it's commitment.They conceive, plan with host governments and donors, and implement feasibility studies involving advanced biomass and waste-based energy systems suitable for Pacific Island and other developing countries. They provide ˜seeing is believing" proof of the technical and economic applicability of the technologies. They are involved in the development of financeable business models that can be used by local companies when these new systems are rolled out.The Uk Government has funded biogas projects for a third year as a sign of it's ongoing commitment and it believed it can create bigger partnerships as well as encourage uptake of biogas across the SIDS. What a story to tell!

Partners
United Kingdom
Samoa

Goal 7

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Goal 7

7.1

By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services

7.1.1

Proportion of population with access to electricity

7.1.2

Proportion of population with primary reliance on clean fuels and technology

7.2

By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
7.2.1

Renewable energy share in the total final energy consumption

7.3

By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
7.3.1

Energy intensity measured in terms of primary energy and GDP

7.a

By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology
7.a.1

International financial flows to developing countries in support of clean energy research and development and renewable energy production, including in hybrid systems

7.b

By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States, and land-locked developing countries, in accordance with their respective programmes of support

7.b.1

Installed renewable energy-generating capacity in developing and developed countries (in watts per capita)

Renewable Lighting
Renewable Gas
Liquid fertiliser
R and D to measue output per different product used (vines/coconut husks/other plant waste)
Financing (in USD)
$40,000
Staff / Technical expertise
Biogas Systems Samoa and STA
In-kind contribution
Technical support from the STA, Political Support for the PRIME Minister
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Timeline
01 January 1970 (date of completion)
Entity
UK Government
SDGs
7
Region
  1. Asia and Pacific
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Contact Information

Pip Morgan, Political Officer

Pip.Morgan@fco.gov.uk