Renewable Energy: Finance guide for policy-makers – Hướng dẫn tài chính cho người làm chính sách: Năng lượng tái tạo và hạ tầng xanh

About the Finance Guide

bloomberg_The Paris UN Climate Agreement in December 2015 refocused attention on the need to mobilize substantial private capital flows into climate solutions at the pace and scale required to combat climate change with the required urgency.

Implementation of national clean energy or ‘green’ infrastructure plans will require unprecedented levels of private investment, not only for climate reasons, through NDCs, but also to deliver energy security and access to energy for those who lack them, as well as creating the conditions for sustainable development.

Now, more than ever, it is critically important for policy-makers and non-financiers to understand and interface with the financial community to establish effective conditions at national level, where the investment case will have to be made.

As a practical contribution, the Finance Guide provides a factual overview of the landscape of finance – sources of capital, what the capital markets do, how transactions work – and more broadly to set common finance terms in context.
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John Kerry is plotting a renewable energy future … starting in Vietnam

Vietnam wants to build a massive number of coal plants. But a former United States secretary of state is offering the country a cleaner path forward.

John Kerry is working with the Vietnamese government on an alternative to its coal plan — one that could provide the same amount of electricity, but with hydroelectric dams and solar panels instead of fossil fuels. It’s a scheme that would save the country billions of dollars, prevent pollution-related deaths, and keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

Hints of this effort have surfaced in the Vietnamese press, but a representative for Kerry said he was not ready to speak about his efforts on the record. However, the former presidential candidate discussed his work last week at the Clean Energy Finance Forum held at Stanford University. While remarks made at the forum were initially off the record, Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy subsequently posted a video online of Kerry’s chat with Anne Finucane, a Bank of America vice chairman. (Update: Since Grist published this story, Stanford has taken down the video featuring Kerry and Finucane.)

Al Gore Trường hợp lạc quan cho biến đổi khí hậu – The case for optimism on climate change

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Battery swapping can propel India’s electric car revolution

Published on Monday, 23 October 2017

Motorists can charge their vehicles automatically in less than a minute with the battery-swapping system.
Motorists can charge their vehicles automatically in less than a minute with the battery-swapping system.

adb.org_Imagine you’re buying a car, and the manufacturer forces you to purchase not only the vehicle itself but also demanded you pay upfront for 10 years worth of fuel. About $25,000 for the car and another $50,000 for the gas. Would you still purchase the car? Absolutely not, unless the gasoline was given at a discount price, right?

Anyone shopping for an electric car could be forgiven for thinking that manufacturers are asking to pay upfront for future energy use. These vehicles are still on average about 35% more expensive than non-electric cars – despite gradually declining battery prices and the promise of practically zero maintenance fees. Tiếp tục đọc “Battery swapping can propel India’s electric car revolution”

The Coal Battle Shifts to Southeast Asia

As China and India shift away from coal, the fight to end use of this dirty fuel is moving south

Coal is on the way out years ahead of schedule in China and India. A recent report by CoalSwarm (an Earth Island Project), Sierra Club, and Greenpeace showed that, in 2016, that Asia’s two fastest growing economies are shutting down mines, scrapping coal plant plans, and building renewables far faster than nearly anyone expected just a few years ago.

coal barge on a riverPhoto by Andrew Taylor/WDMA coal barge on the Mahakam river in Central Kalimantan. President Joko Widodo’s plans to increase power supply in Indonesia is focused almost entirely on coal use. Tiếp tục đọc “The Coal Battle Shifts to Southeast Asia”

DEA and MOIT jointly launch Vietnam Energy Outlook Report 2017

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News   •   Sep 20, 2017 20:24 CEST

Today Mr. Thomas Egebo, Permanent Secretary of State, Danish Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate and Mr. Hoang Quoc Vuong, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) in Vietnam signed the Programme Document of the Energy Partnership Programme between Viet Nam and Denmark. The signing marks the beginning of another three years of close cooperation between the Danish Energy Agency and Ministry of Industry and Trade with a total budget of 21.6m DKK. Tiếp tục đọc “DEA and MOIT jointly launch Vietnam Energy Outlook Report 2017”

Quiet energy revolution underway in Japan as dozens of towns go off the grid

Last update 15:20 | 20/09/2017

A northern Japanese city’s efforts to rebuild its electric power system after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami mark a quiet shift away from the country’s old utility model toward self-reliant, local generation and transmission.

Japan, quiet energy revolution, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, rebuild its electric power system
Higashi-Matsushima city major Hideo Abe shows off pictures of the city’s reconstructing plan after March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, at the city government office in Higashi-Matsushima, northern Japan, February 22, 2017. 

After losing three-quarters of its homes and 1,100 people in the March 2011 temblor and tsunami, the city of Higashi Matsushima turned to the Japanese government’s “National Resilience Program,” with 3.72 trillion yen ($33.32 billion) in funding for this fiscal year, to rebuild. Tiếp tục đọc “Quiet energy revolution underway in Japan as dozens of towns go off the grid”

What happens when the coal and nuclear plants close?

Updated 2:11 pm, Tuesday, September 19, 2017

 
When future policy makers go back and study the U.S. energy industry in the 2010s, one of the defining trends will be the sudden decline of coal and nuclear plants.

Whether this is the beginning of a great new era of American energy or a disaster in the making is the subject of much debate.

And now add another voice to the mix, as the research firm IHS Markit warned in a report released Tuesday that the shift away from coal and nuclear is likely to leave the U.S. grid overly reliant on natural gas and renewable forms of energy and prone to more expensive and volatile electricity prices than we currently enjoy. Tiếp tục đọc “What happens when the coal and nuclear plants close?”

USAID Helps Spur Solar Energy Investments in Vietnam

Monday, September 11, 2017

Vietnam has tremendous potential solar energy resources estimated at more than 20,000 megawatts. In April, Vietnam’s Prime Minister issued Decision 11 that supports solar power development and provides a feed-in-tariff of 9.35 cents per kilowatt hour. This new mechanism is attracting a lot of interest from the solar power investment community. On Aug 29-30, USAID Vietnam Low Emission Energy Program together with the USAID Clean Power Asia organized the workshop “Developing, Financing, and Investing in Solar PV Projects in Lower Mekong Countries” in Ho Chi Minh City. More than 160 participants, including developers, investors, policy makers, and financial institutions gathered to share experiences and challenges to developing bankable solar power projects. The workshop highlighted two case studies of successful projects deployed in the Kingdom of Thailand. So What?  While Vietnam’s demand for energy is growing by 10 to 12 percent annually, there is a tremendous opportunity for solar energy to help meet this demand and thereby support sustainable economic growth, strengthen energy security and minimize environmental impact.

Đinh chính những hiểu lầm về năng lượng tái tạo tại Việt Nam

GreenID mong muốn giúp cộng đồng hiểu rõ những hiểu lầm thường gặp đang cản trở sự phát triển của NLTT tại Việt Nam và hy vọng rằng cuốn tài liệu này sẽ mang lại những thông tin bổ ích cho người đọc.

Cuốn cẩm nang này tập trung vào nhóm thứ 3 – nhóm những hiểu lầm và hiểu sai, gọi chung là nhóm những hiểu lầm. Các công nghệ sản xuất điện từ NLTT tương đối hiện đại cho nên nhiều người còn hoài nghi và chưa tin tưởng vào tiềm năng NLTT dẫn đến những hiểu lầm và hiểu sai về NLTT. Những hiểu lầm này thường được dựa trên những thông tin sai sự thật, những thành kiến về NLTT, số liệu không được cập nhật, khoa học chưa giải thích được, thiếu hiểu biết, hoặc phục vụ cho mục đích tuyên truyền của các nhóm lợi ích.

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Vietnam solar Power Purchase Agreement is ‘non-bankable’

Vietnam Business Forum said actual development and investment in solar power projects may be limited under current PPA model. Credit: Intel Free PressVietnam Business Forum said actual development and investment in solar power projects may be limited under current PPA model. Credit: Intel Free Press

pv-tech.org_A consortium of international chambers of commerce has advised the Vietnamese government that its draft solar PPA template is “non-bankable” and cannot attract financing for PV in Vietnam, particularly for medium and utility-scale projects, according to documents seen by PV Tech. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam solar Power Purchase Agreement is ‘non-bankable’”

Vietnam’s solar energy push draws investors

asia.nikkei_Policy changes spur shift to renewables, with far to go

Vietnam is finally looking at renewable energy options for future generations. © Reuters

HO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam’s TTC Group is planning to sink about $1 billion into solar energy projects in a country still dependent on coal-fired thermal and hydro power for its power needs, with national electricity demand growing faster than 10% annually.

TTC Group, a sugar, energy and real estate conglomerate, said it plans to build as many as 20 solar parks with a total capacity of 1,000 megawatts by next year. The group executed a number of clean energy projects using sugarcane waste before moving into the solar sector Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s solar energy push draws investors”