Electrification of health centers and schools

Assist organisations or individuals to install and operate solar systems

Focus on a system for surveillance, maintenance and repair

Energy efficient cook stoves

Train and empower local stove producers

Improve marketing and sales activities and make products more visible

Training and Knowledge

Increase knowledge, skills and synergies

Share information to improve services for renewable technologies

Data Intelligence

Use information systems, maps and user friendly applications

Optimize operational performance, strategic investments and everyday decisions

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Private businesses in the renewable energy sector are asked to submit their proposals until 19.11.2018

One of the most commonly used renewable energies is bioenergy. This includes energy derived from biomass which is living or recently living biological organisms.

There are three sources of bioenergy:

Solid biomass, e.g. wood or charcoal, that is directly burned. It can be used for cooking or to produce electricity
Biofuels made from biomass, e.g. crops (e.g., corn, palm oil) or crop residues (e.g., rice straw, groundnut shells…) by methods that thermal, chemical, or biochemical. Biofuels can be used for transportation or to produce electricity
Biogas produced by bacteria that the anaerobically (without air) digest organic matter. E.g. dung from animals, sewage sludge, municipal solid waste. Biogas is comprised primarily of methane and carbon dioxide. It also contains smaller amounts of hydrogen sulphide, nitrogen, hydrogen, methylmercaptans and oxygen. Biogas can be used as a low-cost fuel for heating and cooking, or with a machine generate mechanical or electrical power

To generate electricity, generally each tonne of dry biomass can generate between 1 and 2 MWhe with efficiency in the range of 20 – 40%. In Liberia, biomass that could be used are palm oil, coconut, sugar cane and rubber wood, waste and various forms of crop or forestry residues.

In the tropical climate of Liberia the most desirable feedstocks for biofuels production—with the highest yield per land unit— can grow: oil palm, coconut, and sugarcane.