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e7 receives award for Indonesian rural electrification project
During the Johannesburg
World Summit on Sustainable Development in September, the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Chamber of
Commerce (ICC) granted the World Summit Business Award for Sustainable
Development Partnerships to a renewable energy project in Indonesia.
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Klaus
Töpfer, head of UNEP (middle left) presented the World
Summit Business Award for Sustainable Development
Partnerships to Linn Draper, chairman of the e7 group
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The project was initiated
by the members of e7 (e stands for electricity), an alliance of nine
energy companies from G-7 countries that promotes sustainable energy
development. The symbolic prizes were presented to ten of over 120
applicants from 37 countries. The e7 project was the only one to
include PV applications.
The award-winning e7 project, which was developed between 1997 and
2001, set out to provide electricity to over 4,000 people in eight
remote eastern Indonesian communities in Sumba, West Timor, Flores and
Sulawesi. The project included 200 solar home systems with a power of
50 W each, four hydropower units, and a hybrid system including PV, a
wind turbine and a diesel back-up; together the systems generate about
1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. The project received
support from local and national governments, non-governmental
organizations and local communities.
The e7 initiative, founded in 1992, consists of American Electric
Power (USA), EDF (France), Enel (Italy), Hydro-Quebec (Canada), Kansai
Electric Power (Japan), Ontario Power Generation (Canada), RWE AG
(Germany), Scottish Power (UK) and Tokyo Electric Power Generation
(Japan).
Iris Krampitz
© PHOTON International, October 2002
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