Namibia Workshop SANUMARC Univeristy of Namibia, Hentiesbay 3 - 5 June 2010

Presenter Biographies

NAMIBIA’S BIOFUEL POTENTIALS
This paper provides a brief overview of Namibia’s renewable energy potentials. As a special case of the countries considerable but generally under-utilised green energy potentials, the paper provides a first order assessment of the magnitude and potential contribution that various biofuels can make to Namibia’s total energy balance. The paper also presents a short introduction to some of the current projects utilising Namibia’s biomass resources. It investigates the opportunities and constraints for the large-scale use of biofuels specifically related to the production of wood chips, wood fuel pellets and briquettes, charcoal and liquid biofuels. The paper concludes with a brief summary of current barriers faced by Namibian biofuel producers, investors and green energy entrepreneurs.

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Dr Detlof von Oertzen is an independent Namibian technical and management consultant. As a trained physicist with a finance and management background, Detlof has in-depth knowledge and experience of energy-, management- and environment-related topics, and business development. He has worked in numerous multi-disciplinary teams and as a member of international expert groups, and has been appointed by a variety of international as well as southern African authorities and institutions to undertake feasibility studies, undertake project conceptualisation assignments, project development, implementation and monitoring assignments, participate in policy assessments and development, and develop management solutions for optimised human and other resource use.

Detlof’s main thematic work areas are in the field of energy, the environment and radiation monitoring and management. He has extensive work experience in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency systems and technologies, the environmental impacts of energy supply systems, climate change mitigation and adaptation, clean technologies, financing mechanisms including carbon trading, clean development mechanism and the voluntary emissions market, energy demand management and energy supply options, as well as science and technology policy and hands-on management.