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The project aimed to increase the energy efficiency and competitiveness of industrial infrastructure. Uzbekistan has the largest population among central Asian countries and remains one of the most energy-intensive countries in the world. As its economy continues to grow, Uzbekistan is turning to policy changes that increase energy-efficiency measures in the industrial sector—an area that has the greatest short- to medium-term energy-savings potential. This World Bank KGGTF-funded green growth implementation program will develop institutional capacity and supporting policy reforms, as well as demonstrate innovative and scalable financing and delivery mechanisms for industrial energy efficiency in Uzbekistan. Initial tasks include introducing a framework for mandatory or voluntary energy-savings agreements, developing performance benchmarking requirements, and designing implementation plans. The government would also like to start a pilot industrial energy-management system and foster knowledge exchange, in particular with Korea and China.

List of Activities

• Framework design of the ESAP, including research on international best practices; draft framework design recommendation; stakeholder consultation; final draft framework design recommendations.
• Adoption and pilot of EnMS: Preparation of EnMS implementation guidelines according to ISO50001, including best practice scale studies; stakeholder consultation; selection of pilot enterprise, implementation of pilot EnMS and evaluation results; finalization of EnMS guidelines
• Learning, knowledge sharing and outreach: training seminars, study tours to Korea and China, dissemination activities

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Framework design report for energy saving agreement
• Stakeholder consultation report
• Final draft framework design report

Output 2:

• Draft guidelines
• Consultation report
• Implementation completion report

Output 3:

• Learning, knowledge sharing events

Outcomes:

The proposed activities were implemented over 18 months and provided framework design recommendations for the national ESAP, completed a pilot in adoption of EnMS, and carry out a series of knowledge sharing activities. The broad implementation of the ESAP and EnMS rollout were supported by both the existing and new Bank industrial EE operations in Uzbekistan. The implementation of the proposed activity and the broader WBG industrial EE support program firmly established a long-term mechanism for managing and supporting industrial EE improvement and significantly increased industrial EE investment flow. The expected impact on Uzbekistan’s green growth agenda will be large and lasting considering that industrialization is a national priority for achieving its 2030 development goals.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• WBG internal partners: The team will include IFC industrial specialists.
• K-Partners: Korean Energy Management Corporation: trainings for the building materials and food processing industries.
• Other external partners: Under the current EE credit line project, he EU funded Central Asian Sustainable Energy Project (CASEP) is already engaged to finance the EE capacity building program for the specialists of the regulatory agencies (the State Oil and Gas Inspection, the Power Sector Inspection, and other ministries). The proposed activity will look for ways to expand the collaboration.

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Public spaces, including parks, waterfronts, squares, and buildings, can play an important role in addressing urban challenges by encouraging economic growth, social inclusion, and urban greening. Despite their importance, public spaces are poorly integrated or are often neglected in the process of planning and developing cities in the region. They are particularly critical in less-fortunate neighborhood, as access to public spaces is much more essential for poor people.  Funding for this program will assist the World Bank, development partners, and client countries and cities to identify and design policies and programs on public spaces as a transformative instrument for promoting inclusive green growth in South Asia’s cities.

List of Activities

• Diagnostics on Public Spaces and Inclusive Green Growth across South Asia Region: Background Paper on Urban Public Spaces for Inclusive Green Growth; Internal workshop and community of practice
• Develop case study: case study; regional workshop
• Detailed city assessment: data collection, entry and cleaning; develop GIS mapping; city assessment on selected cities; south-south knowledge exchange program; global public space design competition
• Policy implications and specific investment proposals for selected cities: policy notes, global urban design forum

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Background paper on Public Spaces and Inclusive Green Growth across South Asia Region

Output 2:

• Case study (Global experience on public spaces)
• A series of BBLs/Webinars/workshops

Output 3:

• Spatial assessment of selected cities on public space
• A series of knowledge exchange events such as South-South Knowledge Exchange; Global Public Space Design Competition

Output 4:

• Report on policy implications and future investment proposals

Outcomes:

The proposed project will assist the Bank, development partners, and client countries and cities to identify and design policies and programs on public spaces as a transformative instrument for promoting inclusive green growth in South Asia’s cities. It will offer solid evidence that good public spaces can deliver better economic, social and environmental value in developing countries. This will support ongoing WBG projects, as well as a potential expansion of these activities into the future operation to advance the Bank’s inclusive green growth, developing a new WBG business line. Dhaka waterfronts development, for example, can be operationalized, which has got buy-in from the client during the scoping mission in March 2015. Beyond the waterfront itself, it covers large scale urban development along the river including water infrastructure.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• Other external partners: Each activity of the project will be implemented in close collaboration with various partners such as UN-HABITAT, The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) in the UK, Centre for Livable Cities (CLC) in Singapore, Non-profit organization Project for Public Spaces (PPS).
• K-Partners: The project will aim to harness these in its work, relying on Architecture and Urban Research Institute (AURI), Land and Housing corporation (LH), Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement (KRIHS), Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG), Seoul Institute (SI), and other relevant government authorities and academia. The Bank has been collaborating with KRIHS and LH in the urban sector in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and has involved them in several subjects. The South Asia regional workshop, held in Kandy in April, 2014, discussed further cooperation with KRIHS in the area of urban regeneration focusing on public spaces. The team will seek specific areas of collaboration with AURI, KRIHS, SMG and SI for the proposed project activities.  The Bank team will also explore wider stakeholders who could contribute to this work.

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The project aimed to increase energy resilience and economic development in Bangladesh by implementing a smart grid that facilitates renewable energy integration. Smart grids are more than just a way to improve energy efficiency and resilience—they can also be powerful green growth tools for addressing economic, environmental, and social inequities. This World Bank KGGTF-funded green growth implementation program will investigate and plan smart grid solutions for reducing Bangladesh’s dependence on expensive oil and dwindling gas supplies, making electricity cheaper and more accessible, and improving energy reliability. The program will identify ways of creating and integrating solar and hybrid mini-grids into larger-scale energy generation and transmission plans. Relying on the expertise of Korea Power Exchange, Bangladeshi officials will plan for the automated dispatch of energy, the introduction of smart-grid technologies, and more renewable sources, reducing operational and system failures and boosting energy access. The end result: a fuel economy that is less polluting, more secure, the generator of successful solar-powered irrigation in rural areas, and the catalyst for empowering the nearly 40 percent of the population that currently lives without electricity.

List of Activities

• Dispatch efficiency solutions
• Develop Resilient grid
• Deliver Variable renewable energy integration

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Assess % fuel cost savings from dispatch automation 
• Detailed investment plan to implement dispatch automation 

Output 2:

• Schedule for relay setting 
• A set of contingencies that the power system needs to cover 
• List of smart grid components to be included in a detailed implementation to ready the grid for renewables

Output 3:

• Assessment of renewable resources 
• A geo-spatial planning case study to show how renewable resources can be used to develop integrated solution 
• Technical solutions around reserve requirements, smart grid for transmission, standardized mini-grids 
• Workshop for dissemination of findings 
• Technical tours (i) Korean experts to visit PGCB; and (ii) PGCB staff to visit Korea

Outcomes:

The project supported the Bank to develop a grid-compatible design of mini-grids that is highly replicable to support domestic, commercial and agricultural pumping loads throughout the country. The long term impact would be an enhanced access of electricity throughout the country. Mini-grids helped provide a cheaper and greener form of electricity to households and businesses and agricultural pumps. The overall expected outcome was that the basic smart components delivered a grid that was less susceptible to failure and readied the system for 1-1.5 GW of VRE that was being planned.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• WBG internal partners:
  • ESMAP: funding on VRE integration
  • Mr Sandeep Kohli (Team Leader, SEAFASAR)
  • Dr Sheoli Pargal (Energy Program Leader for Bangladesh, and TTL of AAA project #P150086)
• External partners from Korea:
• • Konkuk University
  • KERI
  • Korea Smart Grid Initiative (KSGI)
  • Korea Micro Energy Grid (K-MEG)
     
• Other external partners:
• VIT Energy, led by Dr Peter Son, will provide the analytical solution on this work.
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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The green growth in Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), through use of ICT and investment in clean energy generation program, represents a green growth investment opportunity. Currently a 100% thermal coal-fired power company, DVC wants to invest in solar energy to meet demands of its growing industrial customers. The program complements a World Bank’s USD $220 million loan for the first phase of solar investments and the upgrade of DVC’s transmission and distribution network to a smart grid. KGGTF’s two-year USD $600,000 program includes an assessment visit to Jeju Island and the creation of a road map for smart-grid initiatives. The program team will study options for renewable energy generation, and conduct workshops and knowledge-sharing visits to other countries. 

List of Activities

• Conducting a Technical Option Assessment Study for Location and Siting of Renewable Energy Generation Investments and Study of Alternative Contractual Structures (Solar)
• Drawing up a comprehensive roadmap for Smart Grid initiatives in DVC for scaling-up innovative smart grid technologies like storage and hybrid (solar-wind) renewable energy projects through a combination of investments in renewable energy generation and smart grid initiatives
• Holding workshops and knowledge-sharing visits to other countries on ICT and Smart Grids
• Conducting a Study Tour of Indian officials and World Bank team to Jeju Island

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Market assessment of innovative technologies (wind-solar hybrid, storage, and floating solar PV)
• Technical evaluation for the selected sites for standalone solar parks, solar-wind hybrid parks (with or without storage) and floating solar PV technologies
• Investor conferences to appropriately size the project and understanding bottlenecks in the ecosystem; and, conducting financial institutions conference to gauge their concerns

Output 2:

• Policy and regulatory assessment of adoption of such innovative technologies in India
• Impact of such technologies on the Indian grid (at the scale of demonstration projects and at larger scale), including review and assessment of JNNSM with reference to grid stability
• Designing training programs, training calendar, organization re-engineering for relevant stakeholders

Output 3:

• Workshops within India are planned to make an informed decision before undertaking investments in innovative technologies in renewable energy sector. Experts from other countries including Korea will be invited.
• The stakeholders will be taken to other countries like Korea where such demonstration technologies are planned.

Outcomes:

This project is intended to draw up a comprehensive roadmap for DVC in greening its energy mix through a combination of investments in renewable energy generation and smart grid initiatives. It has the possibility to become a large-scale demonstration project in the renewable energy space since the GoI is planning to set up multiple ultra-mega solar parks (with about 4000 MW capacity). Hence, the results and data obtained from this green growth investment by DVC will be extremely relevant to inform the design and evacuation arrangements from those future solar parks.

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