Project Alpha - Innovative Fully Costed Derisking Strategy for Renewable Energy into Sub-Saharan Africa

Alpha 项目 - 为撒哈拉以南非洲地区提供可再生能源的创新型全成本去风险战略

• 批准号: 105276
• 金额: $ 52.72万
• 依托单位: KEW PROJECTS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105276
• 关键词: Project; Alpha; Innovative; Fully; Costed

The project will deliver a step change and innovative improvement to how sustainable energy is produced and delivered in Sub Saharan Africa. It specifically regards the use of waste and biomass as a source of energy for industrial and domestic users with wide ranging carbon and social impacts. Current sustainable energy projects in the territory that deliver impactful sustainability and social results are challenging to fund and deploy because of the lack of sufficient de-risking of key project drivers. These barriers to entry include aspects such as security of quality feedstock supply, local regulatory approvals, and bankable offtake agreements combined with appropriate technology choice. Additionally, social impact and the energy trilemma are often overlooked in such project ventures. This project will deliver industrial research that is the critical enabler to commercial deployment and builds on detailed feasibility work already completed by KEW. The project output will derisk the investment decisions to deliver cheap, secure innovative renewable energy, which will improve industrial performance & waste management infrastructure whilst delivering a significant step-change improvement in the health & welfare of the local population, particularly amongst the female population, by replacing wood with clean, sustainable domestic fuel.Overall, the deployment of KEW modules in Kenya, critically de-risked through the InnovateUK funded Project Alpha, tackles two major issues through enabling greater value to be ascribed to waste and providing sustainable, affordable energy. Firstly, informal waste picking and the associated social & health hazards would be replaced by properly-paid safe work. This is a very significant opportunity to develop and introduce a working integrated waste management system into an area where the waste management is a massive social, economic, and environmental issue. Secondly, the industry can be supplied with reliable electricity and heat at lower costs (and much lower carbon footprint) than existing sources (much of which rely on importing fuel oil) as well as cooking gas, utilising clean-burn DME fuel produced using KEW's and strategic partners, can be provided to local people to replace charcoal/wood and reduce deforestation and respiratory disease (especially if not using a burn stove).

该项目将为撒哈拉以南非洲生产和交付可持续能源的方式带来一次阶段性的改变和创新性的改进。它特别将废物和生物质的使用视为工业和家庭用户的能源来源，具有广泛的碳和社会影响。由于缺乏对关键项目驱动因素的充分消除风险，目前在该领土内可持续能源项目提供有影响力的可持续性和社会效益的项目在筹资和部署方面面临挑战。这些进入壁垒包括一些方面，如优质原料供应的安全、当地监管机构的批准，以及结合适当技术选择的银行承购协议。此外，在这样的项目投资中，社会影响和能源三难往往被忽视。该项目将提供工业研究，这是商业部署的关键推动因素，并建立在Kew已经完成的详细可行性工作的基础上。该项目的产出将降低提供廉价、安全的创新可再生能源的投资决策，这将改善工业绩效和废物管理基础设施，同时通过用清洁、可持续的家庭燃料取代木材，显著改善当地人口，特别是女性人口的健康和福利。总体而言，通过InnovateUK资助的项目Alpha在肯尼亚部署Kew模块，通过使废物获得更大的价值，并提供可持续、负担得起的能源，解决了两个主要问题。首先，非正式的垃圾拾取和相关的社会和健康危害将被适当报酬的安全工作所取代。这是一个非常重要的机会，可以在废物管理是一个巨大的社会、经济和环境问题的地区开发和引入一个有效的综合废物管理系统。其次，该行业可以获得比现有来源(大部分依赖进口燃料油)更低的成本(和更低的碳足迹)的可靠电力和供暖，以及利用Kew‘s和战略合作伙伴生产的清洁燃烧的二甲醚燃料的烹饪天然气，可以提供给当地人来取代木炭/木材，减少森林砍伐和呼吸道疾病(特别是如果不使用燃烧炉子的话)。