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Keating Chambers is supporting three projects, which not only neutralize the business’ unavoidable emissions, but which also represent the type of international engineering and technological solutions which many members of Keating Chambers have had direct involvement in.
India Hydro Power Project
This Clean Development Mechanism project sees the construction of a new small-scale hydro power facility in the south of India, by harnessing the water flow in an existing irrigation canal and feeding electricity into the local grid. By providing renewable energy, the project helps to reduce India’s reliance on fossil fuels for electricity generation. The project will generate emission reductions of 26,500tCO2 between 2004 and 2012. The project also brings construction jobs to an isolated rural area and further employment is used in running the project.
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New Zealand Wind Power Generation
Located north of the Manawatu Gorge in the North Island of New Zealand, Te Apiti Windfarm is situation across 1,150 ha of farmland. It is the first New Zealand wind farm to use megawatt-class machines. Each of the 55 turbines produces 1.65MW, capable of generating enough power for up to 900 average homes, or up to 45,000 average homes in total for the windfarm. The project therefore provides an alternative to non-sustainable power sources in New Zealand. It will offset approximately 100,000tCO2 annually. This project has been certifies as being Gold Standard compliant, an independently audited, globally applicable best practice methodology for project development that derives high quality carbon credits.
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Rhine-Ruhr Waste Gas Power Project
Methane is 21 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. This project captures methane from three abandoned coal mines in Germany. As coal is mined, rock fractures and methane is released. When mines are closed, there are no legal requirements to install methane abatement technology and the mines continue to vent methane into the atmosphere. This project captures methane that would otherwise be released and uses it to generate electricity and heat in Combined Heat and Power (CHP) units. It will generate emission reductions of 385,500tCO2 equivalent in 2006-7.
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Guizhou Hydro Power Project
This project sees the construction of small and medium hydro power stations in Guizhou Province, southwest China. The project will displace electricity generated by fossil fuel power plants and generate emission reductions of an estimated 190,000tCO2 equivalent between 2005 and 2007. The project will create other environmental and social benefits.
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