Low-cost biodigesters are more than biogas producers – they hold tremendous untapped potential for wastewater treatment. Jaime Martí Herrero reflects on a project that took him from a metropolitan slaughterhouse in Ecuador to Indigenous communities in the Amazon.
WISIONS team participated in the BREG-MES 2014 Symposium
The Berkeley Rural Energy Research Group (BREG) and TU Berlin Microenergy Systems Research Group (MES) organized a symposium on “Innovating Energy Access for Remote Areas: Discovering Untapped Resources“ at UC Berkeley, California, USA on 10-12 April 2014.
The Symposium brought together practitioners and researchers to share experiences about innovative approaches for acheving equitable access to energy for the global poor and those on the margins of society. The programme combined keynote lectures, oral presentations of original research and case studies, poster presentations and panel discussions.
Over ten sessions some of the most relevant issues about decentralized energy alternatives were discussed in depth, such as the use of mini-grids for electric power, the provision of energy for cooking, demand assessment, project planning and governance, lighting services, microfinance and the productive use of energy.
Within this framework the WISIONS team had the opportunity to share and discuss insights from our recent research in two fields:
- The role of gender concerns in the planning of small-scale energy projects in developing countries
- The influence of the end users context on the dissemination of domestic biogas systems in developing countries
Some other presentations and further information on the event are also available on energypedia.
