Workshop 1 - South Africa January 2010

Workshop 1 - South Africa January 2010
Local Organiser	Turner & Townsend
Date	28 – 30 January 2010
Location	Protea Hotel, Wonderes, Illovo, Johannesburg
Title	Capacity-building in South Africa to create sustainable non-food biofuel supply chains Scoping exercise for activities, attitudes and interests of stakeholders in biofuels and renewable CHP.
Theme of break-out sessions	Energy procurement programmes: Investing in CHP schemes based on renewable biofuels. What are the barriers and how can we overcome them? Who needs to be engaged with this project? How can Europe and ACP countries engage to meet these objectives?
Outputs	Key Stakeholders identified and ranked Training needs identified Investment opportunities scoped Training in stakeholder management delivered
Speaker	Organisation	Title
Patricia Harvey	University of Greenwich	Introduction to ACP Science and Technology Programme
Andrew Barnard	Blue NG Limited	Bioliquid Supply Chain Management
Alistair McMaster	Pure Carbon Africa (Pty) Ltd	A CDM Perspective on Cogeneration in South Africa
Antonio Llobell	Plant Bio Trust	PlantBio’s initiatives in bio-fuels: exploring energy crops in South Africa
Lindsey Smith	Imbewu	An Overview of the Policy and Regulatory Framework Pertaining to Biofuels in South Africa
Mark Gush	CSIR	Jatropha curcas: Assessing the potential water resource impacts of large-scale production in South Africa
Dr. Greer Hawley	CES	Biofuels: the role of Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and associated challenges.
Dheepak Maharajh	CSIR	Indigenous Algae: Potential factories for biodiesel production
Mr. Erhard Seiler	South African Biofuels Association	Public Private Partnership for science and technology in Bioenergy, discussing also the issues of food versa fuel and food security in Southern Africa
Dr. Helen Watson	University of Kwazulu Natal	Biofuels Feedstock Production in Africa – the Land Issue
David Lewis	University of Adelaide	Outline of Project Systems Recommended for Africa to Generate Methane Gas
Dr. Thembakazi Mali	South African National Energy Research Institute (SANERI)	Lessons Learnt With Regard to Biofuels Projects in South Africa
Mark Wells	Peoples Power Africa	Agro-Ecological Environmental Biotechnology Systems for Food and Fuel Sovereignty in Southern Africa
Dr. George Tivchev	Farm Bio Gas in Association with Talbot & Talbot	Anaerobic digestion - not just biogas production.
Steve Szewczuk	CSIR	Distributed provision of energy services and the potential use of decision support systems to identify projects
Marba Visagie	Department of Trade and Industry	‘The dti’s Approach to Green Jobs’

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