Environmental services projects
| The Miguillas Hydroelectric Project |
Is a joint implementation activity promoted by NRG Energy Inc, the world’s seventh largest independent power producer; Nordic Power Investment AB subsidiary of Vatenfall AB, one of the largest power utility companies in Northern Europe; Compañia Boliviana de Energía Eléctrica S.A., the second largest electrical generator in Bolivia and Servicios Ambientales S.A.The proposed Miguillas Hydropower Project (Project) is the construction and operation of a privately-owned $400 million investment hydropower plant located in the Inquisivi Province of the Department of La Paz. This Project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions because it will displace the use of fossil fuels within the Bolivia's national interconnected system (SIN).
It is estimated that the Project could reduce around 23 million tons CO2 during the next thirty years, based on existing economic and energy dispatch models. Currently, this project has been submitted for approval to the United States Initiative on Joint Implementation.
| The Baseline and Greenhouse Emissions Reduction Study for The San Ramon Joint Implementation Rural Electrification Project |
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Prepared by Servicios Ambientales S.A. for the Joint Implementation Program of the Netherlands. The San Ramon Joint Implementation Rural Electrification Project replaces polluting diesel powered generators with natural gas fuelled generators.
This reduces emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and improves power generation and distribution in the Chiquitania Norte in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
| Transport and Disposition of Metal Scrap |
Carried out under a contract with the Inti Raymi Mining Company, the largest gold producer in Bolivia. More than 5000 tonnes of metal scrap (see photograph below) were disposed of at the mine site, complying with Bolivian and EPA regulations.
| Pre-feasibility Reforestation Project in Privately Owned Lands in the North of La Paz |
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Requested for a private client. It involved an initial formulation and an economic assessment of an initiative to produce wood and carbon emission reductions in a 10.000 has. of fallow lands.
| Pre-feasibility Cogeneration Project in Bolivia |
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Requested for a private client. This study assessed the environmental additionality and economic feasibility of the project. It aims to cogenerate electric power from sugar bagasse to replace thermo electrical power.
| Pre-feasibility AIJ Fuel Switch Project in Bolivia |
Requested for a private client. The project replaces the use of fossil fuels, diesel and gasoline, with compressed natural gas in vehicles. In addition to estimate the project’s emissions reduction potential, the study analysed alternative financial and project strategies to get market returns from the climate change mitigation impact of the project.
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| Industrial Workshop on the New Opportunities for the Energy and Transportation Sector in Latin America |
Organised by SASA for the Latin American Carbon Program (PLAC) of the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The workshop presented the new business opportunities arising from the emerging international carbon market and the new services provided for its clients by CAF to take advantage of these opportunities. SASA also made a presentation about the national legal and regulatory framework needed to foster carbon projects in Bolivia.
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