AEPC to promote ‘waste to energy’

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    KATHMANDU, April 3:Waste management has always been a headache for the Valley residents, while energy and power crisis are the bitter everyday realities. Amid this, a government body has come up with an idea to solve both problems at once by converting waste into energy.

    Backed by the recently promulgated new renewable energy subsidy policy, Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC) has urged the valley residents, private developers and social sectors to collaborate in ´waste to energy´ project it formally launched in the capital on Wednesday.
    Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC)
    Until now, only those in rural areas of the country qualified for subsides regarding renewable energy projects even though the ´waste to energy´ is not yet popular in those areas.

    “Waste to energy is relatively new concept in Nepal, where possibilities of energy generation from large amount of waste produced from various sources are being explored for biogas systems for electricity generation,” said Samir Thapa, assistant director at AEPC and the project leader. “We feel that this concept has come at the right time. It will offer a good solution to the ever increasing problem of waste management and energy crisis, mainly in the cities,” he added.

    In a survey conducted by AEPC in 2008, the per-capital household waste generation was found to vary from a range of 0.12 kg to 0.54 kg per day in Nepal. AEPC further records that approximate waste in the Kathmandu district alone to be 400 tons per day.

    “The valley has high potential both for bigger and smaller projects. We can generate energy through the waste at industries, healthcare centers, army barracks, slaughter houses, hotels, old age homes and so on,” Thapa said. “It can be done at a small scale too, covering every household. The segregated waste can be turned into cooking gas.”

    Thapa added that installing the needed tools to convert waste into gas may cost a family around Rs 35,000, out of which Rs 10,000 would be borne by the government. Subsidy rates would vary depending on whether it is for private or public services.

    At the launching of ´waste to energy bazaar´ at AEPC center at Khumaltar, Lalitpur on Wednesday, the organizer shared with the attendees the government policies, time tested technologies and business models that are supposed to be marketable and replicable in the Nepal.

    Meanwhile, with an aim to make the idea of ´waste to energy´ more popular, the organizer has also sought project ideas from enthusiasts. It has promised to award project development facilities to the most innovative, sustainable and effective project, to be announced in the capital on 26 April.

    Source : Republica

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    फोहोरबाट ऊर्जा बजार २०१३ अभियानको
    काठमाडौं, २१ चैत-फोहोरमैलाको उचित व्यवस्थापन गरी त्यसबाट नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा उत्पादन गर्ने गरी वैकल्पिक ऊर्जा प्रवद्र्धन केन्द्र र विश्व बैंकले संयुक्त रूपमा ‘नेपाल नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा–फोहोरबाट ऊर्जा बजार २०१३’ अभियानको थालनी गरेका छन् ।
    ‘फोहरमा पनि छ सम्भावना हजार’ नाराका साथ सुरु यो अभियानअन्तर्गत औद्योगिक र अन्य क्षेत्रबाट निस्कने फोहोरको उचित व्यवस्थापनमा जोड दिइने केन्द्रले जनाएको छ । यो अभियानमा केन्द्रले औद्योगिक, व्यावसायिक प्रतिष्ठान, नगरपालिका, गैर–सरकारी संघ–संस्था, समुदायलगायतसँग सहकार्य गर्नेछ ।
    फोहरबाट ऊर्जा उत्पादन गर्न सके नेपालमा सस्तो मूल्यको इन्धन र बिजुली उपलब्ध हुने र विद्यमान विद्युत् कटौतीको समस्यामा कमी आउने र फोहोरमैला व्यवस्थापन गर्न सजिलो पर्ने देखिएको छ । हालै नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा प्रविधिमा नयाँ अनुदान नीति लागू भएकाले फोहोरबाट ऊर्जा उत्पादन गर्नेले पनि यो अनुदान पाउनेछन् । यो अनुदान वैकल्पिक ऊर्जा प्रवद्र्धन केन्द्रमार्फत उपलब्ध हुनेछ । केन्द्रले हाल नेपाल सरकार र दातृनिकायको सहयोगमा राष्ट्रिय ग्रामीण तथा नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा कार्यक्रम सञ्चालन गरिरहेको छ । यो कार्यक्रमअन्तर्गत  नै तापीय र विद्युतीय प्रयोजनका लागि फोहोरबाट ऊर्जा उत्पादन गर्ने कार्यको सुरुवात गरिएको हो ।
    यो अभियानअन्तर्गत फोहोरबाट ऊर्जा निकाल्ने उचित उपायसहितका १० परियोजनालाई पुरस्कृत गर्ने पनि केन्द्रले जनाएको छ । फोहोर व्यवस्थापनको प्रभावकारी उपायलाई डब्ल्यूडब्ल्यूडब्ल्यू डट एईपीसी डट जीओभी डट कम वा डब्ल्यूडब्ल्यूडब्ल्यू डट डब्ल्यूटुईबजार डट ओआरजी डट एनपीमा आउँदो वैशाख ६ गतेभित्र पठाउन केन्द्रले आग्रह गरेको छ ।

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