Nine ambitious npower employees are to set off for the antarctic this week to examine the further potential for renewable energy at explorer Robert Swan’s conservation base in Bellinghausen. The npower/ Robert Swan team were last year the first to power a base entirely by renewable energy.
Robert Swan, the first man ever to walk to both the North and South poles is taking the team of nine to the E-base in antarctica on his ‘Inspire Antarctic Expedition’. An npower spokesperson said “This trip is all about raising awareness, if we can get renewable energy to work in the last wilderness that is antarctica, we can get it to work anywhere”.
Swan’s longer term mission is called 2041. This is the year of the review of the Environmental Protocol of the Antarctic Treaty. The aim of the 2041 team is to work towards the protection of this treaty, so there is never a need to exploit the last great continent on Earth for minerals and fossil fuel.
UNDP/GEF WEP
February 23rd, 2009
Wind energy has been regarded as one of the most promising forms of renewable energy to be utilized for electric power generated for current and future needs. Historically wind energy has been harnessed for a vast number of human needs for approximately 5500 years. As a ‘futuristic green source of energy’, wind energy is now being harnessed at a growing rate globally, as we face a dramatic change in our environment.
In view of the above, The United Nations Development Program – UNDP has initiated the project “Sustainable Development of Commercial Scale Wind Power Generation Project” referred simply to as the Wind Energy Project (WEP). This project has been undertaken as an effort to curb the current global environmental crisis being faced in light of heavy emissions of green house gases to fuel a growing population. The project is focused on both developed and developing countries, and is in Phase I of its implementation in Pakistan. The project is being undertaken in association with the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and the Alternative Energy Development Board
(AEDB).
Please visit our website http://www.wep.org.pk for a detailed analysis into the implementation of wind energy in Pakistan based the UNDP directive, including specific and thorough investigations into wind energy, wind resource assessment, key financial instruments for tariff refinement, detailed EIA and EA guidelines with reference to potential windy sites in Pakistan, and a list of informative websites on wind energy. Also, please sign our guestbook http://wep-guestbook.org/guestbook/ and leave your comments.