District Level Electricity Production; Using Household Biogas by G4CC

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Additional Comments:

1) The project looks at a small component within a larger system of which many of the other critical components are not present such as a sewer system, sewer plant and direct biogas generators.

In an environment where all the other components exist then the proposed system will be able to scale quickly and cost effectively.

2)The proposal revision marginally improved the clarity of the concept. However the cost analysis is still too brief, and is missing a full costing. The concept is sufficiently interesting to pursue, but more work is needed to assess the C/B.

3)The concept of biogas for local generation has merit – and while little is described that clarifies that this is a fully credible project, it appears through the comments that it is. I don’t think it’s a problem that a revised site was selected.

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Judges' Comments

Great idea with an innovative twist. More implementation details would have made this project even more appealing

Would it not have been more cost effective to install a sewer system and decant into a larger location further away where a larger volume of biogas can be produced and also a plant installed to bottle the gas?
The volume of biogas from 100 homesteads are highly unlikely to produce sufficient biogas to make the maintenance of the bio digestor and transportation cost effective.
Also the large number of micro digesters is likely to create a new environmental challenge.

There seems to be a missing gap within the process (Septic Tank through to supply of Electricity to household). Team G4CC to research and plug those missing gap. The team has not conducted any feasibility yet. Hence cost of the project not clear. Piloting using a small community within a district may be an option to look at during Years 1 and 2 of the project phase. Success story could then be told from the Pilot project leading to its acceptance and deployment by other communities. There is no doubt of the economic and environmental benefits associated with the project.

This is a good first start but the proposal needs to be developed further to better quantify the impact in terms of GHG emission reduction and the cost analysis. Households should appear Under "who will take actions". The two systems should be compared: central vs outsourcing. Biogas collection and use works better for large centralized installations, because of economies of scale and the need to maintain fairly sophisticated equipment. In any case those considérations should be taken into account and discussed

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Abraham Bugre

Jul 14, 2015
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We want to take this opportunity to thank the judges for the wonderful and critical comments, we believe they are very relevant hence their incorporation into the proposal. The G4CC team has decided to pilot its project in a small town called 'New Site' in the Adentan District of Accra. We have agreed to use the sewer system that will connect septics from house holds into a centralized tank located way from households in the district. Waste management companies who extract waste from household septic tanks will be contacted to bring their waste to our plant instead of going to pay a fee before dumping, these actions will make the supply of septic waste more available and in good quantities to ensure there is enough biogas for electricity production from the digester. We hope these additions will now make our proposal more clear. Thank you. Abraham(G4CC)