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Title | National Consultant - Biogas Technology |
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The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is in the implementation of the Project “Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in the energy generation and end use sectors in Sri Lanka” (NAMA) with the financial assistance of Global Environmental Facility (GEF). Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority under the purview of Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy is the Project Implementing organization and project duration is 04 years. Sri Lanka is highly dependent on fossil fuel to meet its energy needs, and this leads to a heavy reliance on imported fossil fuels and increased GHG emissions. In order to overcome this issue, the National Energy Policy of Sri Lanka seeks to diversify the energy supply mix with renewable energy resources whilst seeking to reduce energy demand through demand side management. The renewable energy resource development plan promotes the use of renewable energy as part of the national strategy to reduce GHG emission through appropriate mitigation actions. The cost-benefits of these low carbon interventions and corresponding GHG savings are not systematically quantified and their benefits remain obscure and done on ad-hoc basis. In order to fill these gaps, the Project is to establish a robust, transparent and functional NAMA framework. Such framework will systematically quantify GHG savings and benefits of the mitigation interventions using a bottom up approach to aggregate from the provincial and sub-sector levels to the national and sectors level. Furthermore, such a transparent framework will open up opportunity to access regional and international climate funding. The Project will test, verify and demonstrate this NAMA framework with a few selected RE and EE technology applications. The project will also facilitate the market transformation for the adoption of these selected RE and EE technologies. Biogas digesters to households, institutions and small & medium commercial/industrial establishments has been identified as one of the appropriate mitigation action in the energy sector which is to be demonstrated under this NAMA framework. The Project has already completed 60 biogas digesters and more than 40 units are under construction. The target of the project is to disseminate 1000 biogas digesters in five province within the project lifecycle. Thus, the Project seeks a biogas expert’s technical assistance to expedite this on-going biogas programme and achieve the overall mitigation targets.
Scope and Objectives This consultancy contract will provide overall technical expertise in the dissemination of biogas technology in five provinces (North-western, Central, Uva, Southern and Eastern). The consultant will also assist the implementation of biogas pilot projects to test out the application of NAMA framework in the energy sector.
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