Samoa

This report was prepared by Jan Cloin of SPC - GSD (formerly SOPAC) and was funded by United Nations Development Programme and the report was prepared for the Samoan Electric Power Corporation. A survey with a structured questionnaire was undertaken in September 2007 focusing on coconut farming families in Savai’i. A pre-selected sample of 150 households was interviewed but due to quality and selection problems only 69 household interview results were analysed. 

Gerhard Zieroth, Renewable Energy Consultant, New Caledonia prepared this report for UNDP/UNESCO Samoa.

The Government of Samoa through the Electric Power Corporation (EPC) and in cooperation with UNDP Samoa and the Danish NGO will replace the current diesel generator with photovoltaic based power systems on Apolima Island including PB based streetlights. As part of the Access to Sustainable Power Services - Apolima Island project UNDP Samoa has funded this consultancy for system design and preparations for specifications for Requests For Quotations for the supply of major components. 

Biofuel study report 2009 for Samoa by UNFAO.

This is a  hydropower project feasibility report prepared byTonkin and Taylor International, submitted to the ADB and Samoa Electric Power Corporation (EPC). 

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This report was prepared by Tony Knowles and Erik Middelink of SME Cambodia contracted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Government of Samoa. The proposed project is intended to demonstrate biomass gasification technology. The project will inform policy makers, potential private sector investors and the general public regarding the role that biomass-fueled electricity generation systems could play in the Samoa energy economy and in reducing atmospheric emission  of green-houses gasses (GHG).

This report was prepared by the UNDP. The report highlights that access to affordable and sustainable sources of energy has strong linkages with the reduction of poverty/hardship, i.e. if poverty/hardship reduction is an objective, then the provision of energy is an essential prerequisite. In the PICs, where poverty/hardship is often viewed as the lack of access to basic services, opportunities and adequate resources, the case for energy provisioning and access is particularly strong. Provision of essential social services such as health and primary education require energy services.

Castalia strategic advisors prepared this report to the Asian Development Bank. 

This report was prepared by K.R Chapman for FAO Sub-Regional Officefor the Pacific. This report presents findings from the conduct a rapid appraisal on the bioenergy-food security nexus at regional level, including selected Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia Pacific island countries. The aim the appraisal was to provide policy-makers a decision-making basis for the prioritization of in-depth country assessments and further analysis to be conducted in the second half of 2009 under the FAO Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) analytical framework.

This document represents a regional consensus, affirmed at the 2002 Regional Energy Meeting in Cook Islands via the Rarotonga Declaration.