Renewable energy from bamboo residuesin Thanh Hoa province

Nguyen Thanh QuangAgricultural Residue AdvisorVietnam Forest and Deltas Program (VFD)

Contents

1. Current use of bamboo residues

2. Opportunities

3. Challenges

4. What does VFD do?

1. Current use of bamboo residues More than 1 millions tons of bamboo residues annually

Tiny amount for charcoal making

Partly used as furnace fuel for drying chopstick

Mainly sell to craft paper mills

2. Market & policy opportunities

Increased transportation cost

Increasing demand of global and domestic market on biomass

pellets and activated carbon

Approximately 3,000 un-electrified households

Thanh Hoa REDP approved

Biomass incentive policies issued

2. Technology opportunities

Clean charcoal technology

Biomass pelleting

Biomass gasification based power generation

3. Challenges

Lacked access to residues utilization technologies

Lack of finance sources access

Limited market access

Lack of local policies for biomass utilization

4. What does VFD do? Market development & technical assistance for enterprises

Enterprise assistance in accessing to fund/loan via credit

guarantee

Piloting and demonstration

Bamboo residue based clean charcoal

Bamboo residues pelleting

Gasification stove for cooking

Developing a proposal for bamboo residues gasification based

power generation for remote villages

Thank you for your attention!