Energy Self-Sufficiency with the Blue Program
Some 108 families in Lembu village, Bancak subdistrict, Semarang regency, Central Java, today own a home biogas reactor, providing electricity and gas for cooking at reduced cost. "We save (families) about Rp80,000 because they don't have to buy a three-kiloliter gas canister each month," Robert de Groot, manager of the Blue Project, told Tempo two weeks ago. The Blue Project is managed by Hivos, a Holland-based NGO, and Lembu is one of the villages participating in the the Blue Program pilot project, which promotes the biogas reactors.
According to de Groot, since its launch in 2009, the Blue Program has reached nine provinces in Indonesia. Within the year he estimates more than 2,800 biogas reactors will have been built nationwide. Already, Hivos estimates that more than 70,000 Indonesians have benefited from the Blue Program.
February 24, 2015
Some 108 families in Lembu village, Bancak subdistrict, Semarang regency, Central Java, today own a home biogas reactor, providing electricity and gas for cooking at reduced cost. "We save (families) about Rp80,000 because they don't have to buy a three-kiloliter gas canister each month," Robert de Groot, manager of the Blue Project, told Tempo two weeks ago. The Blue Project is managed by Hivos, a Holland-based NGO, and Lembu is one of the village
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