Promotion of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficient Technologies in the Building Sector - Final Phase



Contract partner: Mof, RGoB - Ministry of Finance, Royal Government of Bhutan Country: Bhutan Funding amount: € 1.150.000,00 Project start: 01.07.2020 End: 30.11.2023

Short Description:

Overall goal


The expected impact of the project is wider adoption of renewable energy and energy efficiency through demonstration and promotion of solar thermal systems to the wider public and industry.


Expected results


Outcome 1: Contribution to the generation of 3 MegaWatt (MW) equivalent of energy from solar thermal systems by year 2025.

Outcome 2: Application and testing of green and energy efficient measures in existing buildings based on the products, standards and capacity built [during Phase I (2017 – 2019)] towards the promotion of green and energy efficient buildings.


Target group / Beneficiaries


Beneficiaries:

? 20 policy/ decision makers of Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport and the Ministry of Finance;

? 155 technical professionals from the implementing agencies, contractors, plumbers and suppliers;

? 41 beneficiaries of solar water heating (SWH) systems [37 public institutions, 4 residential (domestic households)]; and

? 60 faculty lecturers and students of technical training institutes and colleges.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) is the contractual partner while the overall project coordination and the management will be vested in the Department of Energy (DoE) under the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MoENR) in collaboration with the Department of Human Settlement (DHS) under the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT).


Activities


- Develop a cost-effective subsidy scheme for SWH installations;

- Commission 41 SWH schemes targeting 4 residential and 37 institutions;

- Increase awareness on SWH technology with 4 outreach and awareness interventions;

- Strengthen institutional capacity on SWH technology;

- Hire the services of international experts to provide additional hands-on training to installers, beneficiaries and staff of the DoE;

- Retrofit 1 existing public building with energy efficiency (EE) measures;

- Developed guidelines and standards for EE buildings;

- Enhance capacity for EE Building Technologies;

- Increase awareness on EE buildings.

 


Context


Concern over energy security, the economic impacts of high energy consumption, and growing awareness of climate change have led Bhutan to put greater emphasis on developing policies and measures that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. The overall development objective of this Project is to contribute to achieving the National Key Result Area (NKRA) 6, which aims to enhance a Carbon Neutral, Climate and Disaster Resilient Development in Bhutan during the 12th Five Year Plan (FYP) (2018 – 2023).

project number 2791-00/2020
source of funding OEZA
sector Energiegewinnung, -Verteilung und -Effizienz, allgemein
tied
modality Project-type interventions
marker Environment: 2, Climate change mitigation: 2
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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