Finland commits funds for Indonesia green energy projects

Finland has awarded an Indonesian consortium US$218,000 to develop green energy generation facilities.

The funding from Finland’s Energy and Environment Partnership Program is going to Forest Carbon, an Indonesian-based firm that provides technical services for carbon forestry projects in tropical rainforest countries that will lead the project.

The funds will allow the Indonesian consortium to create energy generation facilities that utilize waste products from oil palm farmers in Riau, Indonesia. The goal of the project is to create viable energy solutions in the province and increase livelihoods for local small holder farmers.

The green energy generation facilities project will implement capture multiple waste streams from the palm oil sector and use them to generate electricity through an integrated power production facility.

The project will utilize geographical data to map an extensive network of farmers in order to utilize an agricultural waste product by creating an efficient supply chain that will increase incomes for famers and electricity capacity for the province.