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Chris & Chom Greacen Oct 4, 2006 RAEL UC Berkeley

Towards sustainable energy in Thailand. Border Green Energy Team Public interest energy policy. Palang Thai. Chris & Chom Greacen Oct 4, 2006 RAEL UC Berkeley. Palang Thai พลังไท. พลัง (palang): n 1. Power. 2. Empowerment. ไท (thai): adj. 1. Independence. 2. Self-reliance.

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Chris & Chom Greacen Oct 4, 2006 RAEL UC Berkeley

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  1. Towards sustainable energy in Thailand • Border Green Energy Team • Public interest energy policy Palang Thai Chris & Chom Greacen Oct 4, 2006 RAEL UC Berkeley

  2. Palang Thaiพลังไท พลัง (palang): n 1. Power. 2. Empowerment. ไท (thai): adj. 1. Independence. 2. Self-reliance • Thailand NGO • Objective: • To ensure that the transformations that occur in the region's energy sector: augment, rather than undermine, social and environmental justice and sustainability. • Key approaches: • We teach hands-on energy technology • We draft policies • We critique wasteful & dangerous mega-projects and the closed decision-making processes that lead to these projects… and offer cleaner, more democratic, alternatives.

  3. Border Green Energy Team • Conflict area • Little/no rural electrification

  4. Border Green Energy Team Solar electricity for 28 medical clinics for internally displaced inside Burma

  5. Up to 2 million internally displaced people in Burma

  6. Ruggedized solar electric systems built by medics in 3-5 day hands-on trainings • 6 trainings (2003, 2004, 2005, 2005, 2006) • >60 medics trained • 28 clinics

  7. Border Green Energy Team Community micro-hydro (4 villages)

  8. Micro-hydroelectricity Source: Inversin, A. R. (1986). Micro-Hydropower Sourcebook.

  9. Kre Khi village 2003E Wi Jo village 2004Mae Sa Pau village 2005Huai Krating 2006

  10. E Wi Jo village microhydro Estimated power: 750 Watts Head: 20 meters Flow: 20 liters/second Total installed cost: <$3000

  11. Huai Krating “Pump as turbine” 3 kW Head: 35 meters Flow: 20 liters/sec

  12. Huai Kra Ting – “C-2C” induction motor as generator

  13. Border Green Energy Team Refugee camp trainings

  14. Solar/micro-hydro vocational education training Mae La refugee campSept 2005

  15. So far: Solar PV Micro-hydro Hydraulic ram pump Solar cooking Coming soon: 7 hybrid solar/diesel systems Biogas

  16. Border Green Energy Team Maintenance & repair trainings for > 14,000 Thai solar home systems

  17. Thai government solar home program 203,000 solar home systems US$200 million No maintenance plan 23% failure rate within 20 months

  18. warranty Thai Government solar home program Existing linkages Tax payers $ Ministry of Interior $ PEA(national utility) $ Installation company SHS End users

  19. warranty Tax payers Missing linkages $ Ministry of Interior $ PEA $ Installation company SHS End users What happens when systems fail? There is no feedback loop from the end users to installation company, government or taxpayers

  20. warranty Tax payers Missing linkages $ Media Ministry of Interior $ PEA $ Installation company SHS End users Feedback on status of systems, failure modes, successful interventions Warranty awareness Self-help: local technicians + user training

  21. Most of Palang Thai’s work is on policy & planning level…

  22. Grid-connected renewable energy

  23. Grid-connected renewable energy • Renewable energy producers need to be able to sell surplus electricity to grid. • We drafted Thai Net Metering laws approved by Cabinet (2002) • Helped 1 MW  10 MW allowed per renewable energy installation (2006) www.netmeter.org

  24. Power and gas sector governance

  25. Public-interest energy policy analysis and advocacy • Analysis on: • Sector governance and reform • Policy & planning • Tariffs, cross-border interconnection • Thailand is privatizing state-owned energy monopolies… but lacks independent energy regulatory body • Helped develop litigation that successfully reversed EGAT privatization • We drafted “people’s version” of regulatory legislation, adopted by National Economic and Social Advisory Council (NESAC). • Committee finalizing law used our draft as a candidate draft by government

  26. Public-interest energy policy analysis and advocacy • Helped draft energy platform for a major political party (Democrat party), and provided inputs to their environmental platform. • Engineered seminar that brought together human rights leaders, dam developers, and Thai policy makers to discuss Salween dams human rights crisis • Interviews & opinion pieces on TV, radio, newspapers www.palangthai.org/en/policy

  27. Big thanks to… • Volunteers • Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation • Hienrich Boll Foundation • Global Green Grants • US-Asia Environmental Partnership • Oxfam Australia • Finnish Embassy • Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy • Individual donors

  28. For more information Thailand Contact: Chom and Chris Greacen Palang Thai Tel. 02-672-0364 chom@palangthai.org chris@palangthai.org www.palangthai.org

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