SAS Wind Portfolio
Protecting our climate
Wind power provides a cleaner alternative, generating none of the CO2
and other atmospheric pollution associated with coal power plants.
The challenge however, is that they are more expensive to set up and
sustain. Through the sale of carbon credits, the renewable energy
schemes achieve additional revenue; and the sale makes the project
more finacially viable.
Technology partners
New Zealand, Meridian Energy Ltd
India, Ghodawat Industries (I) Pvt. Ltd
Inner Mongolia, Datang Chifeng Saihanba Wind Power Company
About your project
Wind Power Generation, New Zealand
This Gold Standard compliant project is located north of the Manawatu Gorge in the
North Island of New Zealand. The wind turbines at Te Apiti Wind farm will generate
power for up to 45,000 average homes and offset about 100,000tCO2 annually.
Renewable Energy Projects, India
This project supports the construction of 10 wind turbines in the Indian states of
Karnataka and Rajasthan. The project will produce enough electricity for almost 30,000
homes and generate emission reductions of 84,000 tCO2 between 2006 and 2012.
Local people are employed in the design, construction and operation of the wind farm.
As India’s economy develops and demand for electricity grows, this kind of project will
be vital in helping India choose a clean development path.
Renewable Energy Projects, China
This project supports the construction of 36 wind turbines, with a total generating
capacity of 30.6 MW, at the Saihanba Windfarm. Electricity will be generated for the
local grid and will reduce about 138,000 tCO2 between 2005 and 2007.
This windfarm will accelerate the commercialisation of grid connected renewable
energy technologies; an important objective of the Chinese Government. It will also
create local employment opportunities during the assembly and installation of the
turbines, and the operation.
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Balance is all
It’s a fact of modern life that almost everything we do – flying, driving, even making a cup of tea –
involves burning fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal. This in turn contributes CO2 to the atmosphere and adds
to global warming, the big issue now facing our generation.
All our gifts and packages recognise this by giving you a chance to balance out some of that CO2. So for every kilo
of CO2 you produce, we invest in projects around the world that save equivalent amounts of CO2.
These projects also benefit local communities directly in a variety of ways. Our solar and hydro schemes for example
help stimulate local economies, improve health and create work, while our forestry projects recreate native
woodland and valuable wildlife habitats. These are just some of the ways we’re making moves on climate change.
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GreenGlobe Portfolio
60% VER renewable energy, 40% resource protection
The Portfolio
This portfolio is of Verified Emission Reductions (VERs) from a 60/40 mix of renewable
energy and resource conservation schemes. In all cases the principles are the same:
projects need money to make them viable; a carbon credit is created out of the CO2
reduction achieved by the project; through ‘offsetting’, a company pays for the carbon
credits; the sale feeds back to the project and so helps make them viable. It’s a virtuous
circle.
The renewable energy element of this portfolio
supports a range of projects which produce power
from sources like wind, biomass and management of
waste products like biogas. Most often, the projects
are replacing energy which would have been used
from fossil fuel power stations. There are some,
however, which may be saving emissions in other
ways, such as solar electricity lighting systems used
in rural off-grid areas to replace kerosene lighting.
Many of these renewable energy schemes bring
real benefits to the local communities: helping for
example to reduce pollution and waste associated
with coal; helping to promote self sufficiency and
stability because there is less dependence on
imported fossil fuel.
The resource conservation schemes include energy
efficiency, methane recovery and low carbon fuel
switches. For example, trapping methane – 21 times
more powerful than CO2 as a greenhouse gas which leaks from the seams of coal mines, and then
using it to generate electricity. Another example
would be using carbon finance to make it financially
viable for industry to move from the lowest fuel
source (often coal) to something less carbon
intensive like natural gas. In each case, the essential
purpose of the schemes maximize the use of existing
resources and minimize CO2 emissions.
Example 1
Wind power
Country: India
Project partner: Enercon Limited
Example 2
Waste heat recovery
Country: China
Technology partner: Quzhai Cement Works Company Ltd
Often requiring some innovative thinking, our energy
efficiency schemes are those which make industrial
processes less resource intensive.
In India’s future energy requirements are forecast to rise
substantially to meet its economic and development
objectives – it’s predicted that electricity supply will need
to expand by up to seven times today’s production levels.
At present, it’s primarily coal that’s used for the generators
– it’s cheap and plentiful supply. But it’s also a finite
resource producing high levels of CO2. We work with
Enercon Limited, where carbon finance plays a major role
in making financially viable the construction and operation
of new wind turbines at various sites in the states of
Rajasthan, Gujarat and Karnataka.
For example, a factory in the Northern Chinese province
of Hebei, wastes up to 35% of the heat it produces cement
making; its just vented to the atmosphere.
New equipment – made possible by carbon finance – will
use the heat to create steam, which in turn drives a turbine
which produces electricity for use on-site, replacing the
normal pull made fossil fuel power stations, which mainly
run on coal in China. A win-win.
And there are added benefits: a reduction in local
air pollution; it becomes a ‘best practice’ example to
encourage other businesses in China adopt a lower carbon
processes.
There benefits in addition to the ‘clean’ power: all parties
involved in the design, construction and operation of
the wind farms are Indian, so the project bring new
employment and helps to develop the wind power
industry locally and sustainably.
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measurement and reduction. All emissions reductions sold for carbon offsetting by The CarbonNeutral Company
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Every tonne of carbon sold by The CarbonNeutral Company is guaranteed.