Capacity building
Renewable energy. N/A N/A
Training seminar for renewable energy project developers, users, suppliers and bankers of Asean countries
| Country : | ASIA |
| Client : | AEEMTRC (Asean EC Energy Management, Training, and Research Centre) |
| Start Date : | 1998 |
| Completion Date : | 1998 |
| Value of services : | 15 000 ECU |
| Funder : | European Union . |
| Associate/Partner : | N/A |
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| Description : |
The Asean EC Energy Management, Training, and Research Centre (AEEMTRC) organised from 22nd to the 26th of May 1998, a training seminar on renewable energy sources for the project developers, users, suppliers and bankers in Bangkok, Thailand. The objectives of the seminar were : * To introduce basic concepts on new and renewable sources of energy (NRSE) utilisation and conversion technologies, existing application and market conditions ; * To exchange information and views on policy for funding NRSE projects ; * To introduce a computer software in conducting evaluation of investment project on NRSE supply ; * To involve the participants in conducting case study analysis and guide them to interpret results * To present the financing models/schemes existing in ASEAN. |
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| Description of the Actual Services Provided | In the frame work of this seminar programme, IED's tasks was to make presentations on the following subjects: - New and renewable sources of energy, - Wind energy, - Mini and micro hydro, - Financial and sustainability issues of solar photovoltaïc drinking water pumping, issues of rural financial management, - Strategies and consideration for financing NRSE projects. For each presentation, a general introduction was made, but the presentation was articulated on case studies to illustrate the positive and negative influence of existing policies (for example: the high degree of fiscal incentive in India, which, in the long term, had a negative impact on the wind energy market, or the innovative management option of the Sahel Regional Solar Programme). European policies to improve the implementation and R&D projects based on NRSE were examined, in order to give example of incentive policies at a large scale. The seminar gathered approx. 60 participants from Europe and Asia. |