TWG IV 2nd meeting minutes - Casindo

Minutes of 4 th TWG IV meeting: Renewable Energy Project Development
Venue: Grand Legi Hotel Mataram
Date: 27-02-2011
Present:
• Mr Nico van der Linden, Mrs Tjaša Bole-Rentel from ECN
• Mr Surya Budi Lesmana, Mr Sri Atmaja and Mr from Muhammadiyah University Jogyakarta, Jogyakarta
• Mr Joko Windarto from Diponegoro University, Central Java
• Mr Soeharwinto from University of Sumatera Utara, North Sumatra
• Mr Apolo Safanpo from Cendarawasih University, Papua
• Mr Abdul Natsir from University of Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara
1. Opening
- Welcome by Nico
2. Team’s presentation of progress achieved since the last meeting in Makassar in October 2010
North Sumatra
No progress achieved since the meeting in Makassar in October 2010, due to other pressing obligations of the
team leader and because of the uncooperative head of regency, who would not provide the formal approval
necessary for the energy needs assessment in the selected location.
An alternative regency has been selected, approximately 6 hours drive from Medan, where the team leader
has some personal contacts that can support the Casindo work in their region. The actual location (village) still
needs to be decided.
Central Java
Cooperation with Hivos has been going really well and after the successful installation of the demo unit,
another 2 units are under construction and there are another 5 applications from farmers. To further support
the process the Casindo team will organize a meeting between the local dairy cooperative in Sruni, Hivos and
the dairy cooperative in Mojosongo, which is successfully acting as a multi-finance institution and facilitating its
members’ payment of a biogas digester via retention of small payments for milk, to check whether the same
model could be replicated in Sruni village. The process of installing the digesters should be speeded-up
compared to the implementation target in the business plan to make the most use of the subsidy offered by the
Biru Programme, which only runs until 2012.
After an extra-ordinary working week at ECN in the Netherlands, the business plan as the main deliverable for
TWG IV is almost complete.
Papua
The Dinas Energy in Jayapura has confirmed that the target location of the Papuan team (the Engross village)
will be included in their solar program (the Dinas has allocated 153 SHS to the village, although it only has 115
households...)

Pak Apolo has also met with the coordinator of the INDF project (from University of Twente) to discuss
possible cooperation.
The business plan is still a work in process, it has been agreed that the complete draft (which will be a
combination of Bahasa and English) will be sent by Pak Apolo to Nico and Tjasa by the third week of March, so
it can be translated by the end of the month.
West Nusa Tenggara
The cooperation with Hivos is going well, and together they have already conducted the socialization of the
technology in the target location. However, because the households in Jeruk Manis village have extremely low
income, there was so far no interest from the villagers. An additional source of subsidizing the digester should
probably be considered and fast, to speed-up the process of installing the digesters to make the most use of
the subsidy offered by the Biru Programme, which only runs until 2012.
After an extra-ordinary working week at ECN in the Netherlands, the business plan as the main deliverable for
TWG IV is almost complete.
Yogyakarta
The cooperation with Hivos is going well, but again the implementation target for the digesters needs to be
speeded up as much as possible to make the most use of the subsidy offered by the Biru Programme, which
only runs until 2012.
The team is working on the business plan but has yet to produce the financial analysis.
3. Round of questions on the major problems encountered so far
No major issues arise, apart from the bureaucratic process of obtaining approval for intervention in a village.
4. Work plan until next TWG IV meeting (all):
- Draft complete business plan: end of March
- Feedback and improvement iterations: over April
- Final version of the deliverable: end of May 2011