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PROJECT ID: EEP 3-V-040 Commercialization of Biogas in the Mekong Delta: Turning waste to energy Lead Partner : ETC Foundation in Netherlands Partners: CCRD/VACVINA in Vietnam Technical Focus: Biogas
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PROJECT ID: EEP 3-V-040 Commercialization of Biogas in the Mekong Delta: Turning waste to energy Lead Partner: ETC Foundation in Netherlands Partners: CCRD/VACVINA in Vietnam Technical Focus: Biogas Activity: Commercialization of biogas Duration: 15 months Start date: 01/10/2011
OVERALL OBJECTIVE Providing access to sustainable, affordable and clean energy services to 3,600 people who are currently un-served or under-served in rural areas in the Mekong Delta. The project aims to realize this objective through: Introducing a sustainable farming system, by ensuring availability of renewable energy for cooking and lighting and increasing the hygienic conditions on a farm and at the same time improving the soil quality through sustainable recycling of agricultural residues; Creating off-farm employment in the form of biogas entrepreneurs who will be based in the communes and will have enough work both during and after the project to sustain themselves and their families; Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through waste-to-energy conversion through the use of biogas and bio-fertilizer and improvement in soil quality through sustainable recycling of agricultural residues.
Project Area: Vinh Long province 1 3 2 5 4 6 8 7 • Vinh Long Total area: 147.519 ha • Population:1.031.994people • Kinh:97.3%, Khmer: 2.1%, Others:0.6% • Agriculture: • - Rice cultivation • Animal husbandry
Live stock Pigs: 320.000 heads Cattle: 68.000 heads Poultry: 5.3 mill.heads 3 6 4 Districts: 3, 4, 6 have been selected for the project Implementation
Project activities performed • Project start-up and training: • Selected: 30 biogas service entrepreneurs (10 per district) • Trained 36 technicians (12 per District) on technical & marketing skills • Promotion and marketing: • Established 30 one-stop shops for biogas information & distribution (10 per District) • Printing & disseminating 6,000 flyers • 6,000 Radio – broadcastings (10 per commune) • Made a VCD on VACVINA Biodigester & Bio-fertilizer • Training users in 30 communes • Sales: • Built 60 demonstration units (2 per commune) • Early Bird promotion: 180 plants (6 first clients per commune) • Started selling 51 biogas plants at market price • Total Sales: 291 biogas digesters, providing 1.746 people with sustainable, affordable and clean energy services
Introduced: VACVINA‘Biodigester system The underground flat-top system integrates both pigsty and latrine while providing a concrete floor on which the animal shelters are built. 1- Inletsystem2. Digester3. Outlet 4.Gas reservoir
gas reservoirs system One of VACVINA biodigesters
Training on marketing skills and sharing experience with supplying Teams from Thanh Hoa