SOUTH PACIFIC APPLIED GEOSCIENCE COMMISSION
DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT TRAINING WITH THE
FIJI DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND FIJI ELECTRICITY
AUTHORITY
2-13 February 2004
SOPAC Training Report 111
by
Jan Cloin & Rupeni Mario
Community Lifelines Programme
SOPAC Secretariat
March 2004
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CONTENTS
Page
INTRODUCTION
3
OBJECTIVES
3
PARTICIPANTS LIST
3
ACTIVITIES
4
FOLLOWUP ACTIVITIES
6
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INTRODUCTION
From 1993 – 1996 the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) funded a project titled
“Support to the Pacific Islands Power Sector” which was implemented through the Energy
Division of the South Pacific Forum Secretariat1. Building regional capability in all aspects of
Demand Side Management (DSM) programme design and implementation was one of the key
objectives of the project. Ten Pacific Island power utilities participated in the project.
The current DSM Project, funded by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social
Affairs (UNDESA), aims to follow-up on the recommendations of the initial UNDP DSM
Programme. This includes assisting participating utilities in the implementation of pilot DSM
projects and subsequent refinement into full-scale programmes that will benefit the utility,
consumer and society as a whole.
As part of the current DSM Project the Fiji Electricity Authority (FEA) was selected as one of the
power utilities for the implementation of a pilot DSM project. A training component on Energy
Auditing was developed to build capacity within the FEA to assist in the implementation and
monitoring of the pilot DSM project.
This report presents a summary of activities during the training in field visits to the Pacific Fishing
Corporation (PAFCO) in Levuka, Ovalau, the ANZ House and Carpenters Workshop and
Supermarket in Suva, Fiji Islands.
OBJECTIVES
The training was carried out with the following primary objectives:
1) On-the-job training of Department of Energy (DOE) and Fiji Electricity Authority (FEA) staff in
identifying energy efficiency measures in the commercial and industrial sectors.
2) Assist FEA in the promotion of DSM with their high electricity-consuming customers that will
subsequently assist FEA with lowering their peak demand.
PARTICIPANTS LIST
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Mr Geoff Andrews, International Consultant and Trainer, Genesis Automation, Australia.
[email protected]
Mr Babu Singh, Fiji Electricity Authority, Suva, Fiji. [email protected]
Mr Raj Reddy, Fiji Electricity Authority, Suva, Fiji. [email protected]
Ms Naomi Cakaunitabua, Fiji Electricity Authority, Suva, Fiji. [email protected]
Mr Intiyaz Khan, Senior Energy Analyst, Department of Energy, Ministry of Public Works,
Suva, Fiji. [email protected]
Mr Rupeni Mario, Energy Section, Community Lifelines Programme, SOPAC.
[email protected]
Mr Jan Cloin, Energy Section, Community Lifelines Programme, SOPAC. [email protected]
Now known as the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
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ACTIVITIES
Participants were introduced to DSM through classroom sessions and field visits to ANZ House,
Carpenters Workshop and Supermarket and PAFCO. The following is a summary of activities
carried out at the respective sites.
ANZ House
Discussions with the Property Manager revealed
that they were already engaged with basic DSM
work such as changing lamps to energy – efficient
ones. This was initiated when they realised that
their electricity bills were quite high making an
average of about F$25,000 per month. In the
discussions it was also found out that split airconditioning systems, in addition to the central
system, were installed to cater for certain sections
that work late into the evening.
A tour of the 7-floor building helped in identifying
further opportunities to save electricity. These
include the appropriate choices of lamps to suit
certain tasks, shading of the East and West
windows, and a more detail analysis of the central
air conditioning system.
ANZ House in central Suva.
Carpenters Workshop and Supermarket
The Carpenters Motors workshop was quite a
different scenario as compared to the ANZ House
in many ways. As in the picture, note the use of
day-lighting in the main workshop area. This
refurbishment has done away with the use of
lights during the day.
A walk-through survey of the complex found out
that there were a lot of opportunities to reduce
electricity
consumption.
Most
of
these
opportunities are in the lighting systems and the
air conditioning systems in the Accounts Section.
Carpenters Motors in Walu Bay, Suva.
Discussions and calculations revealed that there is a need in the Accounts Section, which is
approximately 300 m2 in floor area and with 13 split air conditioning systems, to look into the
cooling and lighting systems.
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Accounts Section of Carpenters Motors.
Carpenters Supermarket in Suva.
Electricity consumption at the Superfresh supermarket is dominated with its freezers and, food
and drinks display coolers.
Pacific Fishing Corporation (PAFCO)
During the three days at the PAFCO tuna
production facility, participants were led
through the facility to review energy efficiency
options. PAFCO spends an average of
F$1.4m per year on electricity and consumes
about 80% of FEA’s generation in Levuka.
The training at this stage was focussed on
industrial
processes
with
Geoff
Andrews, the trainer, leading the
investigations.
Participants
were
encouraged to look critically at the
existing arrangements.
The PAFCO Complex in Levuka.
Following discussions with the plant engineers the
participants identified certain demand side
management strategies that PAFCO could adopt. In
the learning process, participants were also
introduced to the concept of heat balancing and use
of biomass resources from PAFCO’s operations.
The 3-day visit to PAFCO concluded with the
identification of four potential projects, which
were presented to the General Manager, and
four technical staff of PAFCO.
Tuna ready to be moved into the main freezers.
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The projects are as follows:
1) Improving lighting conditions by means of re-placement and reorientation of fixtures and the
use of natural lighting in the production and storage areas;
2) Improving cooling and freezing efficiency by means of automated doors, better efficiency and
the cooling of the ammonia evaporator by means of a heat exchanger instead of air-cooling;
3) Establishing co-generation close to or on the PAFCO production facility in order to provide
both electricity and heat to the production process, as well as to reduce electrical losses in
the transformers; and
4) Utilisation of fish waste for the production of biomass-energy in the form of fish oil or by
means of a methane digester, to fire a (co-generating) engine on site.
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
FEA staff will follow up on the feasibility of the options by means of further data-gathering and
submitting proposals to the respective site management.
SOPAC and IIEC will review and evaluate the proposals to consider an appropriate pilot project to
be funded under the implementation phase of the current DSM project.
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