carbon trading

Dear Friend

Carbon trading is a business by itself and it is good to know, that you would like to know more about it. Generally most of the companies involved in this business approach a consultant who prepares all relevant documents and submits it. If you have multiple projects then you can club all of them and apply as a single project too. It depends on the generation capacity and CO2 replaced thereof. For single project of upto around 5 MW, it is not economically viable to go all by yourself. If you have single or multiple projects totally to more than that then you can think of going independently. It also depends on the country in which the project is located ( Annex A or B countries ). Are you from India?

With good wishes for a happy, prosperous, peaceful and greener new year.

Thanks and regards

Ashok Toshniwal, Bangalore, India

Dear EDSPL

I suggest you to mail me the details so that I could help you to get the right person to help you out. I am myself a consultant and have a network who can prepare the right project report for the CDM requirements which woukld enable you to claim the Carbon credits. However please note the credits are availble for Developing countries and not developed countries.

Do reply me at st.choudhary@gmail.com

Best Regards

ST Choudhary

Stchoudhary,

You said: "the credits are availble for Developing countries and not developed countries."

What "credits" are these,

who "gives" them out,

and why not developed countries?

Are you saying that a carbon free power plant in a "developing" country can get a "credit" but that same carbon free power plant in a developed country cannot get a "credit" of sorts? Am I correct?

Do you have links to what you are talking about?

Seaplaneguy

Dear Ashok and Chowdhary,

Thanks for your useful renarks and suggestions. Currently I have a number projects in the pipeline some at license stage (3.5MW, 5 MW) and one at PPA stage (10 MW). I am myself a mini-hydro engineer (basically electrical) and am in the field since 24 years. But the unfortunately i have not gone into CDM matter yet, rather limited my past efforts in more technical support and technical capacity building aspects. i am from Nepal and the small hydro projects i am talking abt are all in Nepal.

I am sure there are efforts elsewhere within the country to tap the CDM benefits and it is possibly a rigorous process. i wanted to update myself on it firstly. Secondly, the investors/industries (from developed countries) who may join in my projects would possibly have more in their hands from other parts of the world in order to try meet their carbon-obligations.

For now i wanted to know a simple correlation between the MHhs and CO2 and a little bit of knowledge and make a summary report to potential party who might assist me with my equity need. At this moment i am not clear if i (with help from concerned experts) am going to have to prepare the full documentation works (may be not). Should that come to that the contact email you have given will become useful. Lastly, it is a process through which i might be capacity-building upon myself.

Thanks once again and any more suggestions will be appreciated.

Dear Friend

Could you please send me additional basic details of the various projects, under consideration, to ashoktoshniwal@yahoo.com

We are ISO 9001-2000 certified manufacturer of Battery chargers for power plants & we supply complete DC system with battery & DB. We have installations in hydro power projects not only in India but also in Bhutan, Vietnam, Tanzania. Thus we would like to be of associated with you for battery chargers also.

I look forward to your reply.

Thanks and regards

Ashok Toshniwal, Director - Universal Instruments manufacturing co. Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India, www.uni-insta.co.in

Hi,

thanks for your inputs. as i explained earlier one project is under PPA stage and the rest should go under feasibility studies soon. it is interesting to know of your supply speciality and i shall keep that in mind. General practice in hydro is to award at least package contract for supply / installation / testing / commissioning of the whole generating equipment set.

carbon credit seems a far cry for hydro projects in nepal - this is why i have gathered from my other contacts so far. because in nepal a new hydro is not going to replace any polluted energy as we have all (almost) our present energy from grid supplied from hydro. Well, things may change in future. India and China (in asia) seem to be benefitting from CDM as they have good percentage of their present quantity of grid energy supplied from coal/thermal. scam... i dont know, but from what i hear from experts i talked to, it definitely is a pain to geto through the process.

hydropower is not recognozed as a CO2 trading point.

Carbon offsets, CO2 trading, etc is a huge scam.

So is Cap & Trade.

It is an entire industry which has sprung out of the Medusa Head we know as "global warming", or the catch all, "climate change".

Travis