Local Initiatives to Create Clean Energy
The recent Bali Clean Energy Forum exhibition provided an
opportunity for Bali'€™s residents to show
environmentally friendly products using renewable energy that they had created.
Aiming to address the island'€™s energy crisis, a number of enterprises and communities from several villages introduced their household-scale inventions.
I Gusti Agung Putradhyana from Marga, Tabanan, was one of the exhibition participants. He presented his electric plow, which uses a solar-powered battery.
Besides the electric plow, he also created a grain thresher powered by a solar panel.
Gung Kayon, as he is fondly called, has been creating a lot of modifications that enable the use of solar power, including recharging his laptop in his bag using a small panel.
Although the electricity generated from the panel has not been able to replace the power provided by state electricity company PLN, which mainly generates electricity from coal-fired power plants, his efforts have at least enabled him to reduce his electricity consumption at home.
While there are still few renewable energy sources, Bali'€™s government has pledged to use 100 percent clean energy in the future.
Another energy innovation presented at the exhibition was the use of pellets to replace firewood in a program initiated by state gas company PGN.
Made of sawdust and miscellaneous farm waste, these pellets have been used in pilot projects in Tabanan and Jembrana, two regencies where most village people use firewood in their kitchens. PGN provides a stove to burn the pellets, however, as it is quite expensive for the villagers, at over Rp 1 million ( US$74.15 ), PGN will distribute 4,000 stoves for free in the two regencies.
In addition to solar panels and pellet energy, people on the island have a lot of other creative ideas for renewable energy sources, including biogas made of animal excrement, the residue of which is then processed into compost to fertilize the villagers' farms.
Aiming to address the island'€™s energy crisis, a number of enterprises and communities from several villages introduced their household-scale inventions.
I Gusti Agung Putradhyana from Marga, Tabanan, was one of the exhibition participants. He presented his electric plow, which uses a solar-powered battery.
Besides the electric plow, he also created a grain thresher powered by a solar panel.
Gung Kayon, as he is fondly called, has been creating a lot of modifications that enable the use of solar power, including recharging his laptop in his bag using a small panel.
Although the electricity generated from the panel has not been able to replace the power provided by state electricity company PLN, which mainly generates electricity from coal-fired power plants, his efforts have at least enabled him to reduce his electricity consumption at home.
While there are still few renewable energy sources, Bali'€™s government has pledged to use 100 percent clean energy in the future.
Another energy innovation presented at the exhibition was the use of pellets to replace firewood in a program initiated by state gas company PGN.
Made of sawdust and miscellaneous farm waste, these pellets have been used in pilot projects in Tabanan and Jembrana, two regencies where most village people use firewood in their kitchens. PGN provides a stove to burn the pellets, however, as it is quite expensive for the villagers, at over Rp 1 million ( US$74.15 ), PGN will distribute 4,000 stoves for free in the two regencies.
In addition to solar panels and pellet energy, people on the island have a lot of other creative ideas for renewable energy sources, including biogas made of animal excrement, the residue of which is then processed into compost to fertilize the villagers' farms.
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