day 3 wim van nes - workshop results and way forward

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Learning from national domestic biogas programmes in

Asia; mapping opportunities for developing and

resourcing of biogas sectors including carbon financing

Results and the way forward

Chengdu, PR China,

22 November 2012


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International Workshop

Day 1: Learning

Plenary session: Spotlight on China!

Country Team discussions: What did we learn?


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Day 2: BIOMA/exhibition/Hongqi/township visit

Well appreciated!


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Day 3: Mapping opportunities

Four issue presentations/ceremony/update regional debt

fund

Five parallel sessions A-E



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Did we achieve the workshop objective 1?

To evaluate the performance of the national programmes

on domestic biogas and to assess the outlook of these

programmes

Expected output is an outline of the main issues, lessons

learnt and prospects per country (SWOT)



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Main issues and lessons learnt: observations

General: Many contextual issues making it hard to copy & paste

from one country/region to another (i.e. gender)

Demand side:

Large market potential exists and will continue to exist

despite changes in culture and life style

Lack of awareness among potential biogas households!?


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Main issues and lessons learnt: observations (2)

Supply side:

Need to mobilise strong private sector organisations

requiring to allow higher profit margins in the costs of

the biogas plants (make it free market?)

Also strong need to mobilise financial institutions to

provide credit

Lack of skilled workers in the rural areas

R&D, transfer of technology?


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Main issues and lessons learnt: observations (3)

Enabling environment:

RE/biogas is increasingly recognised in national policies

and through the establishment of dedicated government

institutes Regulation and quality assurance

Budget allocation

Fossil fuel (and chemical fertiliser) subsidies



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Nepal

1992

268,418

19,246

Bangladesh

2006

23,611

5,049

Laos

2007

2,715

439

Vietnam

2003

140,698

23,372

Cambodia

2006

17,450

4,826

Pakistan

2009

2,097

860

Indonesia

2009

5,572

2,970

Prospects

Total production (officious numbers):

(up to mid 2012)

cum. production: 460,716 installations

production 2011: 56,802 installations

Operation rate: approx. 90%

Bhutan

2011

155

40

Philippines

Market

potential?

China

(40 million)

Innovation!

India

(4.5 million)

Innovation!

Sri Lanka

Market

potential

confirmed;

fund raising!

Myanmar

Market

potential

confirmed;

fund raising!


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Opportunities: observations (1)

Carbon financing:

Important progress made on the registration of CDM and

VGS projects, which will result in increased carbon

revenues for the sector in future

All steps related to carbon financing are/seem to be

complicated, time-consuming and costly

Sub-Working Group on Carbon Financing (SWG-CF) has

been established to exchange knowledge and experience

Carbon financing implies strong quality control



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Product development:

Great dynamics including private sector initiatives (new

concepts, construction materials, feedstock)

Different niches in the market

Perhaps missing: need for quick standardisation and

certification: how to prepare for that?



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Bio-slurry:

The potential of bio-slurry has not been fully tapped and

more efforts will be required on applied R&D and

extension

Difficulties to market the advantages of bio-slurry

compared to chemical fertiliser (Bhutan!)

Rename the national biogas programmes

In some areas, there is surplus (=waste)



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Credit facilities:

Big need for credit facilities, as up-front costs will remain

considerable despite the dynamic product development

Proposed regional debt fund may contribute to the

fulfilment of this need

Subsidised biogas credit vis--vis investment subsdies?



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Enabling environment:

Important roles to be played by the government on

policy and regulation. Also monitoring & evaluation?

Subsidy for end-users (for certain period)

Standardisation!

Carbon revenues are external or internal funds?



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What else?

Credit market assessments in Indonesia and the

Philippines (FS)

Offer from the Vietnam team to have the 2013

international biogas workshop in Vietnam


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Final question:

Did you experience sufficient:

refreshing tea

spicy food

(Mahjong playing) pleasure

over the last three days?


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