PASADENA (Yosefardi) – Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. completed a study investigating the potential use of Redeemable Biomass Electricity Credits (RBEC) in the province of Riau in Indonesia.
The project was in collaboration with Universitas Muhammadiyah in Riau, Sumatra with grant funding provided by the Energy and Environment Partnership Indonesia (EEP), supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.
Through the study, Jacobs assessed the feasibility of rural communities in Riau trading biomass with a power plant operator in exchange for RBECs credited against their electricity accounts; potentially increasing their access to affordable electricity and improving quality of life for residents, as well as reducing the environmental impact of agricultural waste.
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