CASE STUDIES ON:
Wood Energy Data Collection and Assessment and Decentralized Wood Energy Planning
The Regional Wood Energy Development Programme (RWEDP) commissioned several case studies on data collection, assessment and analysis for wood energy planning in some of its member countries. The studies involved the analysis of national policies and strategies for wood energy development, and formulation of wood energy plans and programs. It included activities like data identification, secondary data compilation, selected primary data collection and the use of the Long Range Energy Alternative Planning model, also known as LEAP (see SEI-Boston for more information on the LEAP model) for policy analysis, planning and program formulation. In most cases the study was to be carried out not only at the national level but at the provincial and district-level as well. RWEDP commissioned these studies in support of its immediate objective 1 stating that RWEDP should aim “to contribute to an improved database on wood energy at regional and national level and to improve the capacity of institutions to generate, manage, and assess such data at regional, national and sub-national levels”. The specific objectives of the studies were to:
a) generate actual experiences in wood energy planning activities in the country,
b) provide on-the-job training in wood energy planning,
c) develop local wood energy planning expertise, and
d) define follow-up activities to strengthen wood energy planning capabilities in the country.
The following countries have provided draft documents on the country case studies.
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Case study for China |
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Case study for Nepal |
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Case study for Philippines |
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Case study for Vietnam |
The case studies can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat PDF format suitable for printing, duplication and distribution. (To download the free Acrobat Reader and find out how to use PDF files click here.)
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China case study report is being prepared | |
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| Study | The case study for Nepal has been prepared by the Water and Energy
Commission Secretariat based in Kathmandu, Nepal. The study provided extensive background
information on wood and biomass energy planning data and information both at the national
level (Part 1) as well as for Ilam, being one of the 75 districts in Nepal (Part 2).
Part 3 provides an overview of the intsitutional aspects of wood/biomass energy in Nepal while Part 4 gives an overview of the methodological aspects of wood/biomass energy planning. Part 4 has several chapters dealing with the LEAP energy planning model/tool, used for this study This document is available in 6 separate files: An Executive Summary, Part 1, Annexes belonging to part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. Download Executive Summary (259 KB) | |
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Philippines case study report is being prepared | |
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| Study | The case study for Vietnam has been prepared in 2001 by the Institute for Energy based in Hanoi, Vietnam. The study provided extensive background information on wood energy planning data and information at the national level.
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