Vanuatu is a Western Tropical Pacific archipelago of 83# islands (60# inhabited) across ~1300km, located ~1800km ENE of Australia. Population is ~327,000. Port Vila is the capital located on the island of Efate. Contact online >>
Vanuatu is a Western Tropical Pacific archipelago of 83# islands (60# inhabited) across ~1300km, located ~1800km ENE of Australia. Population is ~327,000. Port Vila is the capital located on the island of Efate.
Less than 20% of the rural households and ~60% of urban households are connected to an electrical grid which means ~200,000-250,000 people may have energy challenges.
In 2020, up to ~75% of the electricity was supplied by imported diesel at high tariffs. More affordable electricity from indigenous sources would support economic development.
Vanuatu formed along the converging Australian and Pacific Plates. A fractured, volcanic island arc over 1200km long, it has multiple active volcanoes and many other volcanic structures, some with existing heat flows demonstrated by hot springs. A map of known Geothermal areas is shown below:
The proposed Vanuatu Geothermal Project will have several project phases including some of the activities listed below (but not limited to this selection):
o Aerial surveys (i.e., LIDAR, visual, thermal)
o Geological field survey updates
o Geophysical field surveys updates
o Surface surveys (topography, drilling location and flowline route surveys)
o Appraisal Wells (shallow boreholes/slim hole wells, production/injection testing)
o ESIA updates (exploration, drilling, construction and installation of power generation facilities and transmission line facilities)
o Front End Engineering Design (FEED)
o Development Wells (larger diameter production wells and/or potential repurposed/modified slim hole wells)
o Facilities engineering, analyses and designs
o Fabrication and construction of infrastructure, equipment, flowlines
o Pre-commissioning and Commissioning / Start-up
o Safety and control systems monitoring
o Well testing and monitoring
o Flowline inspections and maintenance
o Production facilities inspections and maintenance
For those of you who are already working with us on this exciting opportunity, thank you so much for your continuous support.
It''s all about distributed energy this week.
First up, in hot-off-the-press news we hear the battery system integrator Demand Energy is installing 1MW of distributed energy storage systems across some of the most exclusive rental properties in New York, to help the city cope with summer peak loads.
At the other end of the spectrum from New York apartments, meanwhile, distributed energy systems are also of critical importance to underprivileged communities with poor access to grid power.
This is a subject that will be covered at the forthcoming Energy Storage World Forum in Rome, Italy, in April 2015.
And getting power to a particular class of remote communities is very much a topical issue following recent events on the other side of the world from the Big Apple. Here''s why.
Could microgrids save lives on remote islands?By Jason Deign
Upcoming debate on energy storage in microgrids was given a sense of urgency over the weekend as Cyclone Pam tore across Vanuatu in the Pacific.
As the devastated island nation issued a plea for international help, one of the questions facing the government and aid workers was how to restore power& help and whether current fossil-fuelled generation sources should be replaced by renewable energy.
Like many island nations, Vanuatu has traditionally got most of its power from imported fossil fuels.
This reliance on imported fuel was already creating problems for the country before this weekend''s catastrophe. "The Government has been concerned for a number of years over the high cost of electricity," noted the International Renewable Energy Agency inging electrification to rural communitiesMeanwhile, the use of renewable-energy microgrids has been extending across many other rural communities in developing regions. In Northern India, for example, OMC is among the companies working to bring electrification to rural communities.
While OMC focuses mainly on micro-power systems for single households, next month CEO Anil Raj is set to reveal how larger setups could support mining, agricultural, telecommunications and petrochemical industries at the Energy Storage World Forum.
Similar systems, typically combining PV with batteries and diesel generation, are also being used in rural Africa by organisations such as the Dutch Foundation of Rural Energy Services (FRES).
FRES has so far installed nine solar and hybrid microgrids in Africa, with a combined capacity of 550kWh, according to business development director Caroline Nijland, another speaker at the Forum.
In island settings the value of battery-equipped microgrids is likely to be even greater than it is for other types of remote communities, however.
Surviving Cyclone OlwynOn Monday, for example, the Australian renewable energy website RenewEconomy pointed out that one of the few power systems to survive Cyclone Olwyn, which was raging at the same time as Pam, was a solar hybrid microgrid on Thevenard Island.
"Microgrids are shaping up to be key components to improving ''energy resiliency'', and to mitigating the crippling impact of disasters fuelled by climate change, with their ability to keep power flowing,"RenewEconomy said.
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