UNDP Samoa MultiCountry Office Energy Programmes

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UNDP Samoa Multi-Country OfficeEnergy
Programmes
United Nations Development Programme
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CO Programmes CPO MCPO

• Two Main Programmes
• Governance and poverty reduction
• Energy and Environment is the largest portfolio
  (resources and interventions)
• Crisis, Prevention and Recovery Natural
  Disasters
• Cross-practice areas
• ICT for development
• HIV/AIDs

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Other Related Programmes

• GEF Small Grants Programme (Samoa and a
  sub-regional programme to include Cook Islands,
  Niue and Tokelau)
• MDGs Samoa, Cook Islands, and Niue

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Programme Coverage

• Samoa Multi-country office covers 4 countries
  the Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa and Tokelau
• National programmes are delivered through
  national coordinating agencies and implemented by
  the appropriate lead implementing partners

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Programme Coverage

• At the regional level, our programmes cover 15
  Pacific Island Countries (including Tokelau under
  the PIREP)
• Regional programmes are delivered through the
  relevant CROP agencies mainly SPREP and SOPAC

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CO Energy Programmes

• 6 national energy projects 5 on-going and 1
  hard pipeline
• 3 regional energy projects 2 on-going and 1
  hard pipeline

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CO Energy Programme Resources
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The Cook Islands

• Project Technical assistance to increase the
  utilisation of renewable energy technologies in
  the Cook Islands energy supply
• Focus Power sector/feasibility studies for the
  islands of Atiu, Mauke and Mitiaro.
• Key Partners Government of the Cook Islands
  Energy Division, UNESCO, UNDP

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Samoa
Project Access to Sustainable Power Services
Apolima Island Focus To replace the current
diesel generator with photovoltaic-based power
systems on Apolima Island. The expected overall
outcome is to improve livelihoods through a
reliable, effective and environmentally friendly
24-hours power supply for the 9 households and 1
church on Apolima including PV based
streetlights Key Partners Government of Samoa,
EPC, Danish NGO UNDP
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Samoa

• Project Coconut Oil for Power Generation
  (CocoGen)
• Focus A Preparatory project to assess the
  resource, technical, institutional, regulatory,
  economic and financial feasibility of the
  substitution of coconut oil to diesel fuel oil in
  the Samoa Electric Power Corporations power
  generation.
• Key Partners Government of Samoa, EPC, UNDP
  SOPAC

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Samoa

• Hard Pipeline Project Upolu Wind Resource
  Assessment Project
• Focus To determine if wind resource in Upolu is
  suitable for grid-connected wind power
• Key Partners Government of Samoa, EPC, SOPAC,
  UNDP and UNEP/Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark

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Tokelau

• Project Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Electricity
  Supply on Tokelau (Pilot Project)
• Focus Initiate utilisation of the solar energy
  potential for grid-connected power generation as
  part of Tokelau's long-term strategy to working
  towards sustainable energy self-sufficiency
• Key Partners Government of Tokelau, NZAID,
  French Government UNDP

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Tokelau
Project Tokelau Renewable Energy Barrier
Assessment and Removal (REBAR) Focus Enables
Tokelau to participate in the Pacific Islands
Renewable Energy Project (PIREP) Key Partners
Government of Tokelau, UNDP SPREP (PIREP)
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Regional Energy Projects
Project Pacific Islands Renewable Energy Project
(PIREP) Focus To facilitate the promotion within
the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of the
widespread implementation and ultimately,
commercialization of renewable energy (RE)
technologies (RETs) through the establishment of
a suitable enabling environment. Key Partners
PICs, SPREP, UNDP
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Regional Energy Projects
Project Pacific Island Energy Policy and
Strategic Action Planning (PIEPSAP) Focus
Assist with the development of national energy
policies, strategic action plans, and practical
mechanisms to implement these in the 14
participating Pacific Island Countries Key
Partners PICs, Danish Government, SOPAC, UNDP
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Regional Energy Projects

• Hard Pipeline Project Pacific Islands Greenhouse
  Gas Abatement through Renewable Energy Project
  (PIGGAREP)
• Focus To reduce the growth rate of GHG emissions
  from fossil fuel use in the Pacific Island
  Countries (PICs) through the widespread and cost
  effective use of their renewable energy (RE)
  resources. It consists of various activities
  whose outputs will contribute to the removal of
  the major barriers to the widespread utilization
  of RE technologies (RETs).
• Key Partners PICs, SPREP and UNDP

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Key Recommendations to REP-PoR

• To use existing mechanisms for national and
  regional collaborations and consultations
• To support practical on the ground interventions
• To complement on-going and hard pipeline energy
  interventions and programmes

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Thank You