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As the Technical Advisor for a $5M Wind Energy Project in Eritrea, C TRADE is displacing old diesel engines with 250KW wind turbines at one of 8 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 favouring ROI of less than one year for a fibre glass boat manufacturing facility. US companies that operate in countries that ratified the
Kyoto Protocol - will have to acquire carbon credits and meet those
countries requirements for carbon offsets, even though companies
in the U.S. are not subject to Kyoto's emission caps.
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 is currently installing 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. Wind/Solar Hybrid Systems
C TRADE established local facilities to assemble, install, and service the hybrid 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 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 Partners 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. C
TRADE provides design, monitoring, verification and third party
certification services for marketable carbon emission offsets that can be
potentially traded like a commodity or banked for future sale or trade
pursuant to CDM policies and procedures developed under the
Benefits of Carbon Credits " Provide
carbon funds for RE project implementation, For more
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