Development of Sustainable Power and Water Supply for Remote Areas and Disaster Response and Reconstruction in Indonesia

INTERNATIONAL PROJECT TEAM:

Australia

Curtin University of T... Kent St Bentley WA 6102 2201070 Fax: +618 92662584

setiawan
Indonesia

Gadjah Mada University Jl. Grafika No 2 55281 3076431 Fax: +62274 589659

Wijaya

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PROPOSED COUNTRY OF IMPLEMENTATION:

Indonesia

PROJECT- DESCRIPTION:

The purpose of this project is to provide sustainable power and water supply to remote areas and disaster response and reconstructions in Indonesia by utilising renewable energy sources available in the particular areas such as solar energy, wind energy and micro-hydro. This will help reconstruction process runs smoothly thus ensuring sustainable development in remote areas and disaster affected locations. Mini-grid hybrid power system which consists of renewable energy generators with conventional diesel generator is designed to supply power and clean water demand. Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination plant is installed as deferrable load in the system to produce amount of water that cope the necessity supply for people live in the remote/disaster affected areas. Design of the system first will be done by using computer modelling to perform simulation on renewable energy sources available in a particular remote area, economic analysis, environmental consideration, as well as life cycle of the project. The next step is building the system prototype and finally deployment of the system in a particular remote area in Indonesia. Intercultural collaboration is very essential in this project to maintain sustainability of the proposed system. The Indonesian student group will play an important roll as to involve in the design of the system, surveying the appropriate location for implementation as well as social approach to local community to be involved in maintaining sustainability of the project.

ADDITIONAL REMARKS:

In Curtin University of Technology Australia, we have been doing research project on remote area power system by utilizing renewable energy to provide sustainable power and water demand. This research is involving an industrial partner as well as research centre in Western Australia. We are willing to do collaboration works for deployment of the technology as well as transfer of knowledge/technology. We just presented one of our research works in the World Renewable Energy Network Conference held recently in Fremantle-WA, 4-8 February 2007 with the paper entitled: "Design, Economic Analysis and Environmental Considerations of Mini-grid Hybrid Power System with Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant for Remote Areas". Gadjah Mada University as partner team has outstanding track record in education, research and community services in Indonesia and also actively engaged with the disaster relief actions both in Aceh (2004) and Yogyakarta (2006). The intercultural dialogue plays very important role in maintaining sustainability of the project for example by involving community from the beginning of the project, during the building process, educational or transfer of technology and utilising the product for capacity building and community development in rural and disaster affected areas.

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