- PIGGAREP financed wind resources monitoring underway for Upolu and Savaii and resource assessment undertaken for Upolu.
- EPC is conducting an ongoing assessment of Samoa’s wind energy potential. Masts for 10 metre and 30 metre measurements were installed at the Afuilo hydro site and at Aleipata on the coast.
The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat’s wind and solar monitoring project is the main long-term data source for Rarotonga wind energy and is used to estimate wind regimes of other islands. At Ngatangila Point, Rarotonga, wind data recovery was 100% during two years of monitoring. The annual average wind speed was 5.5 m/s. The highest hourly and daily averages were 17.7 m/s and 14.0 m/s respectively.
FSM solar data is available for download from the IRENA Global Atlas for Renewable Energy at the following links below:
- Report 1 - Feasibility of Resources and Sites for Waste-to-Energy Power Generation in Fiji.
- Report 2 - Waste to Energy Resource Assessment in Fiji.
Energy Resource Inventory of Fiji:
- Solar energy source
- Hydro energy source
- Wind energy source
- Biomass energy source
This record captures Tuvalu petroleum product imports for the period 2006 - 2014. Data is captured monthly and by fuel type: Diesel (ADF) Unleaded petrol (ULP, also known as benzene at the retailers) Kerosene - dual purpose kerosene (DPK).
Data was sourced by the Tuvalu Department of Energy directly from the fuel importers and aggregated here by fuel type. Listed below are the various importing parties by Tuvalu over the years:
Data captures Samoa 2009, 2011 & 2013 vehicle imports. Data originally captured by the Samoa Customs Office and sourced through the Samoa Statistics Office. Dataset captures the following details: HS tariff codes of imported vehicles, description, country of export, quantity, and CIF. The remaining years of data will be updated soon.
This report is part of the climatic study for Tonga, and describes the comparison of wind and wave data available for Tonga area. The climatic study in the SOPAC region is part of the Norwegian assistance to SOP AC for the period 1992 - 1993. The location of the area is shown on Figure 1. The goal of the study is to find correction factor that can be used to include the U.K. Met. office model data for wind and waves in the measured data series for the area.
2021.Outcomes of the FSM Sustainable Energy (FSM SE) Project Inception Meeting Report. Suva, Fiji: Pacific Community (SPC). 8 p.
2020. Fact sheet - Samoa
Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) - Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2019-20: preliminary results - July 2020. Noumea, New Caledonia: Pacific Community. 23 p. [UNICEF, SPC, UNFPA, DFAT].
Troubat N., Sharp M. 2021. Food consumption in the Marshall Islands [electronic resource]: based on analysis of the 2019/20 Household Income and Expenditure Survey. Majuro, Marshall Islands: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and The Pacific Community. 92 p.
Marre J.-B. Hunt A. 2022. Coastal fisheries and FAD monitoring project in Kadavu, Fiji: An assessment of data collected from 2017–2020. SPC Fisheries Newsletter 166:29–37.
I. Pacific Community 2021. Pacific Statistical/Economic Briefing: COVID-19 Economic Impacts - Quarter 3, 2021. Noumea, New Caledonia: Pacific Community. 35 p.
The Marine Zones (Declaration) Act 2011 repeals the Marine Zones (Declaration) Act 1983. It states that the territorial sea of Kiribati comprises those waters having, as their inner limits, the baseline of Kiribati and, as their outer limits, a line measured seaward from that baseline, every point of which is at a distance of twelve (12) nautical miles from the nearest point of the baseline.
The Marine Zones (Declaration) Act 2011 states that "Baseline" means the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf is measured. It contains the geographic coordinates that defines the baseline for the Line Group. The points are defined by geographic coordinates are determined by reference
to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84).
The Marine Zones (Declaration) Act 2011 repeals the Marine Zones (Declaration) Act 1983. It states that the "Contiguous Zone" means waters beyond the territorial sea within a distance of twenty-four (24) nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.
Part 2 of the Tuvalu Maritime Zones Act 2012 states that the contiguous zone comprises those areas of the sea that are beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea, having as their outer limits a line measured seaward from the baseline every point of which is distant 24 nautical miles from the nearest point of that baseline.
Where an archipelagic baseline is declared, the outer limits of the contiguous zone are a line measured seaward from that archipelagic baseline, every point of which is distant 24 nautical miles from the nearest point of that archipelagic baseline.
Part 1 of the Tuvalu Maritime Zones Act 2012 states that the territorial sea comprises those areas of the sea having
(a) as their inner limits, the baseline, which is measured from the low-water line of the seaward side of the reef fringing the coast of any part of Tuvalu or bounding any lagoon waters adjacent to any part of that coast, or where a reef is not present, the low-water line of the coast itself and
(b) as their outer limits, a line measured seaward from that baseline, every point of which is distant 12 nautical miles from the nearest point of that baseline.
Joint Management Fisheries Zone between Australia and PNG.
Pacific Community Transition Plan 2021: foundations for a resilient future - response to recovery. Noumea, New Caledonia: Pacific Community. 8 p.