CPC has partnered with the Technology Marketing Unit of the Forest Products Lab in Madison, WI to help the US Forest Service investigate distributed energy generation applications of small diameter timber.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's site, Renewables for Sustainable Development , contains an exhaustive set of links for village power.
This is an excellent presentation of the benefits of Distributed Generation by the Oregon Public Utility Commission Staff including recommendation on how to remove barriers to its widespread use.
This is an excellent summary of Multi-purpose Platforms by Jerry Weingart, a colleague and development pioneer.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are targets for addressing extreme poverty. We believe that productive uses of renewable energy are fundamental to the achievement of these targets, and specifically the use of modular biopower should be expanded to greatly accelerate the process of increasing both economic and human development.
Read about Shell Solar and their work in rural electrification. Of special interest to CPC is the SunStation business model that we helped them to implement in the Philippines.
Read about the Department of Energy's Biomass
Program.