Making friends with a young bull

Sustainable Energy

Gaining the blessing of the holy man prior to opening the beef production farm Opening day of the beef production farm in Pupuan, Bali

Western Influences is committed to promoting opportunities for sustainable and efficient resource use and energy generation, such as generating electricity from methane gas, the sun, the wind, ocean currents, or heat from underground.

Western Influences is currently working with an Australian – Indonesian joint venture that is building a beef cattle production farm in Pupuan, Bali.  The team is also working with a leading university, implementing the recommendations from research projects on sustainable beef cattle production.

Whilst the cattle farm project is innovative in its land use, feed lot maintenance and cattle sheltering; it has also developed a method for harvesting methane for electricity generation.  One of the goals of this project is to develop the electricity generation component such that it can be implemented by small cattle farming operations across Bali, and further afield.  The economic impact of reducing the cost of electricity, and providing an opportunity to sell electricity back to the grid for profit, on Bali’s micro farmers and subsistence farmers is profound.  This project alone will transform whole communities currently living below the poverty line.