Our Group organises 3000+ Global Conferenceseries Events every year across USA, Europe & Asia with support from 1000 more scientific Societies and Publishes 700+ Open Access Journals which contains over 50000 eminent personalities, reputed scientists as editorial board members.

Open Access Journals gaining more Readers and Citations
700 Journals and 15,000,000 Readers Each Journal is getting 25,000+ Readers

This Readership is 10 times more when compared to other Subscription Journals (Source: Google Analytics)
Google Scholar citation report
Journal of Ecosystem & Ecography peer review process verified at publons
Indexed In
  • CAS Source Index (CASSI)
  • Index Copernicus
  • Google Scholar
  • Sherpa Romeo
  • Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE)
  • Open J Gate
  • Genamics JournalSeek
  • Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
  • Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)
  • Electronic Journals Library
  • RefSeek
  • Hamdard University
  • EBSCO A-Z
  • OCLC- WorldCat
  • SWB online catalog
  • Virtual Library of Biology (vifabio)
  • Publons
  • Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
  • Euro Pub
Share This Page

Sustainable energy for rural community development in the eastern cape of South Africa

2nd International Conference on Biodiversity & Sustainable Energy Development

L. Zhou, F. Agdhasi and N. S. Mamphweli

ScientificTracks Abstracts: J Ecosys Ecograph

DOI: 10.4172/2157-7625.S1.012

Abstract
Energy is the backbone of economic development of any community or society. However, the extraction and use of energy resources has major environmental implications depending on the type of energy utilized and the conversion methods or technologies employed. The majority of people in South Africa live in rural areas that are located outside the national utility grid or they cannot afford the present energy services. In most cases these areas are endowed with biomass resources in the form of waste produced from the operation of saw mills. These wastes are usually burnt in furnaces as a means for waste management and the practice results in a number of environmental and health challenges. This research was focused on turning the saw mill waste into energy (electricity) that is used to power a community bakery for community economic empowerment. This paper will present the project development stages, the socio-economic impact as well as the carbon footprint of the project
Biography
Relevant Topics

http://sacs17.amberton.edu/

Top