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Renewable Energy To Power Indonesian Villages
Jakarta (AFP) Feb 15, 2007 Indonesia aims to have 2,000 energy self-sufficient villages powered by hydro, solar or bio-fuel resources by 2009, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said. The country currently has 140 villages capable of meeting all their own energy needs, the official Antara news agency quoted him as saying late Wednesday after a cabinet meeting. "President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wants the number of energy-self-sufficient villages ... 140 increased to 200 this year and to 2,000 by the end of the present cabinet's tenure in 2009," Yusgiantoro said. The villages have developed micro-hydropower plants or solar, bio-gas and bio-fuel energy schemes which also create jobs and reduce reliance on fossil fuel reserves to help meet growing energy demands in Southeast Asia's largest economy. Yudhoyono has asked the relevant ministries to arrange to disburse the necessary funds to the villages involved in the scheme, Antara said. Yusgiantoro said the villages were eventually expected to produce an energy surplus which they could then sell. The scheme was hoped to reduce the number of unemployed by one million by 2009, the minister said, adding that 45 percent of Indonesia's 70,000 villages were underdeveloped. Around a third of Indonesians have no access to electricity, the World Bank says. One pioneer village, Tanjung Harjo in Central Java, was already using vegetable energy resources to meet all its needs and was selling its surplus power to a nearby sugar factory, the agency said.
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US Industry Warming To Climate Change Fight
Washington (AFP) Feb 14, 2007Saving the planet is a worthy goal, but corporate America also sees money to be made in the fight against global warming. First, however, the US business world needs its skeptical government to pave the legal and regulatory path to climate riches. Former Federal Reserve vice chairman Roger Ferguson, now a top executive at insurance giant Swiss Re, spelt out the case for government action at a climate change conference of global legislators held at the US Senate Tuesday. |
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