Projects in development
Projects will be added over time, though our priority is - if a project works, we will focus upon developing and replicating that project across similar countries or with similar counterparties.
Project Alliance
We agreed to work alongside the Moon Valley project, which is helping farmers in the Jordan Valley to export their produce to the UK. They asked us to carry out a diagnostic on the energy situation in the West Bank and to look for opportunities in renewables. Our conclusion was that the biggest opportunity for the local communities lies in municipal waste to power, and we have since proceeded to write up a pre-feasibility paper for the Palestine Investment Fund, which is the largest single investor in the territory. We hope that the upshot will be an in-depth feasibility study and the deployment of capital and technology to deliver several million gallons of bio-fuel from 600 tonnes a day of municipal wastes currently being dumped in landfill by the Hebron and Bethlehem municipalities.
Project Konya
Working with Thurit Berge (Chair of Hope for Konya) and Athina Boardman (Trustee) we are planning the installation of renewable, low maintenance energy systems (solar) for use in their schools and hospitals. Installation is planned for March 2012, using similar blueprints to those which we developed together with Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute (ECI) for our ‘Otumfuo’ project in Ghana. Konya is a relatively poor rural community in the North of Kenya, close to the Ugandan border.
Other Projects
We have imported a small briquetting machine into the UK and we are testing various kinds of green wastes with a view to producing solid fuel. Results so far have been very encouraging, and we aim to launch a fully fledged operation in the Midlands that will turn out something in the region of 10k tonnes of solid fuel per annum, diverting green wastes from landfill. We are in advanced stages with several interested investors to back this project with appropriate capital.