COGENERATION WEEK IN CAMBODIA
AKP, Phnom Penh, 26 November 2003 By Sam Saman
The EU-ASEAN Cogeneration Programme launched a cogeneration week workshop in Cambodia in the morning of 25 November 2003 in Sunway hotel under the presidency of H.E. Ith Praing, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy.
H.E. Ith Praing said that in the workshop that the EU-ASEAN Cogeneration Programme, which is the firstever in the recent decades of the Cambodian history, introduced officially the notion of cogeneration or combined generation of heat/cold and of power from the same primary source of energy. He stressed that the efficient use of any source of primary energy, such as fossil fuels or biomass/biogas, through this concept, helps save fuel of up to 50 % compared to two entities producing separately heat and power.
He further indicated that this is very important in the context of global warming and climate change resulting from fuel utilisation, especially for Cambodia, which still spends lots of foreign currency for the importation of fossil fuels for the generation of electricity, by replacing this source of fuel with the one available in the country such as biomass.
H.E. Ith Praing said that this type of project is currently the first in Cambodia and can get benefits and other incentives from the status of the Full Scale Demonstration Project.
Speaking in the workshop, Mr. Winston Me Colgan, Chargd d' Affair of the European Commission Delegation in Cambodia, said that COGEN 3 is relevant for Cambodia as this Programme is able to actively support the government efforts in rural electrification through the use of agricultural wastes as fuel in decentralised energy supply systems. COGEN 3 is complementary to other bilateral cooperation programmes between the European Union and Cambodia aiming at direct contribution toward poverty alleviation in Cambodia. Under these Programmes, a budget of 30 million Euro a year is provided to support rural development, education, health care, as well as other technical assistance to support Cambodia to accede to the World Trade Organisation.
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