The Clean Energy Initiative:
The Clean Energy Company's development programme The Clean Energy Initiative (TCEI) is based on a simple modular learning format and is replicable as a remote decentralised micro-grid usable by local entrepreneurs and micro-enterprises. We will actively build the local capacity to support the long-term adoption of wind power enabling long-term project sustainability.
Micro wind turbine installations and micro-grids primarily powered by wind turbines offer clean and sustainable electrical energy day and night which have the potential to provide power for: water pumping, lighting and other commercial/household applications – in short, productive energy solutions for:
Low-income households, small businesses and local-low rural communities.
NGOs implementing development programmes (clean water programmes and health centres).
Governmental agencies offering social infrastructures.
The Clean Energy Initiative aims to develop a wind-powered micro-grid blueprint for off-grid energy users in Northern Mozambique which can be cost-effective in meeting the local social and economic needs of local communities and end users. We offer design guidance and tariff structures, whilst ensuring the training for the system’s maintenance staff. Small enterprises and locally owned projects will be able to use the micro-grids for income generation and be responsible for its up-keep.
Modular turnkey blueprints for wind powered applications such as water pumping for agriculture
The Aims of The Clean Energy Initiative:
1.. Identify, support and foster local innovation and entrepreneurship:
The Clean Energy Initiative's wind powered micro-grid are ideally placed to offer much needed income generation potential for small enterprises which can be operated, supported and managed at a local level.
2.. Address Climate Change through adaptation and mitigation:
The rising prospect of global warming and climate change, if present trends of fossil fuel consumption and costs continue, is a continuing challenge. The adoption of wind power can directly off-set the harmful reliance of fossil-fuel and biomass burning, which in turn means a reduction of natural environmental resource depletion and environment damage and climate change through the reduction of green house gas (GHG) emissions.
3.. Knowledge sharing and skill transfer through vocational training which supports social and economic empowerment:
By promoting 'renewables' & developing innovative alliances with public & private institutions it will be possible to develop a sustainable wind-power sector with the capacity to dissipated knowledge and learning across East Africa.
20 May, 2010