Environment & Renewable Energy Projects

Project Name: Solar Energy Storage (Battery) Project

Key Objective:
To develop a nickel-iron prototype battery based on Edison’s design, for the effective storage of solar energy and scalable to assist Samoa’s energy needs.

Donor Funded:
Internally funded (SROS)

Project Period:
January 2022 – December 2026

Project Name:
Managing Invasive Species for Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific (MISCCAP)

Key Objective:
To take stronger action against invasive species and thereby build resilience to climate change through the practice of introducing safe natural enemies into a country to manage invasive weeds.

Donor Funded:
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (NZ MFAT)

Project Period:
January 2023 – July 2026

Project Name:
Samoa Greenhouse Gas Inventory Capability Building in the Agriculture Sector

Key Objective:
TTo strengthen capacity of Samoan departments to compile, manage and report a Tier 1 and 2 greenhouse gas inventory for livestock, and to identify priorities and options for continuous improvement of national GHG inventory.

Donor Funded:
New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI)

Project Period:
July 2024 – June 2025

Project Name:
Developing Effective and Sustainable Implementation of Integrated Management of Water Resources and Related Ecosystems for the Pacific Island Member States (SAPI)

Key Objective:
To strengthen the national and sub-regional capabilities of the Pacific Island member states for the systematic assessment and resolution of their water resources and coastal zone management issues, in a manner that ensures access to clean water and the management of these resources in a sustainable manner.

Donor Funded:
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Project Period:
July 2023 – December 2025

Project Name:
Biogas Compression Trials

Key Objective:
To trial and progress biogas technology initiated under IMPRESS to compress and store and store biogas into gas tanks for ease of use, and open up more business avenues for biogas operators.

Donor Funded:
UNDP and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE)

Project Period:
January 2023 – June 2025

Project Name:
Feasibility of Implementing PHA Production in Samoa

Key Objective:
To assess Samoa’s capacity to provide bioplastic alternatives to its current plastics through circular bioeconomy approaches and implementation of a PHA (polyhydroxyalkonoate) production facility using waste biomass.

Donor Funded:
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Australia

Project Period:
August 2023 – September 2024

Project Name:
Samoa Water Masterplan and Investment Priorities Study

Key Objective:
: Review environmental sustainability of proposed Masterplan project options through an assessment of: cost effective approaches to improve environmental impacts, mitigation and monitoring; catchment management and protection; security and protection of water sources; and ecological enhancement.

Donor Funded:
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Project Period:
January – December 2024

Project Name:
Paper Waste Management Trials

Key Objective:
To implement a pilot scale waste to product processing activities with the aim of reducing waste from various waste streams from entering landfill by processing into useful products.

Donor Funded:
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

Project Period:
January 2022 – December 2024

Project Name:
Paper Waste Management Trials

Key Objective:
To implement a pilot scale waste to product processing activities with the aim of reducing waste from various waste streams from entering landfill by processing into useful products.

Donor Funded:
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

Project Period:
January 2022 – December 2024