Creating a Model for Sustainable Energy

In the Surin province of Thailand, famed for its Jasmine rice production, one rice mill is demonstrating to local schools universities and farmers how to turn rice husks into clean, renewable energy.

The Mungcharoen Green Power Company purchases the waste husks from local farmers then provides the left over ash created from the burning of the husks back to the farmer free of charge, to improve their soil quality and support the province’s Organic Farming program. 

The project will reduce 266,231 tonnes of CO2e over its lifetime, has a "zero discharged water" policy where all waste water is recycled for on-site use, and won the ASEAN Energy Award in 2008.

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