Overview of APERC Activities
35th APEC New and Renewable Energy Technologies Expert Group
Meeting (EGNRET)
13-14 October 2010, Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Kobayashi, President
Asia-Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC)

Outlines
1. Overview of Current APERC Activities.
- 4th Edition of APEC Energy Demand and Supply Outlook-Progress on PREE
Progress on CEEDS

2. Overview of Future APERC Activities.

-5th Edition of APEC Energy Demand and Supply Outlook
Continuation of PREE and Follow-up PREE
Continuation of CEEDS
Mechanisms for introducing Low-Carbon Energy Supply/Low-emission
Power Sources, building upon the success of PREE

3. Peer Review on policies to promote Low-Carbon Energy
Supply.
- Objectives-Methodology
Expected Output

1-1 Overview of Current APERC Activities.
4th Edition of APEC Energy Demand and Supply Outlook•••

Released November 2009
Concluded that–
25% minimum 2005-2030 APEC intensity reduction goal will be
met under business-as-usual; however–
Business-as-usual is unsustainable•
Growing oil imports•Growing greenhouse gas emissions
Follow-up report, Pathways to Energy Sustainability, concluded that–
Greenhouse gas emissions could be held to a level consistent
with a 2 degree C temperature rise assuming•
50% 2005-2030 APEC intensity reduction•
30% non-fossil primary energy by 2030•
59% non-fossil electricity generation by 2030–
Even in this scenario, oil imports still problematic

1-2 Overview of Current APERC Activities
Progress on PREE
 In 2009, the first four PREEs for New Zealand, Chile, Viet Nam and Thailand
were undertaken with reports published on the APERC website(http://www.ieej.or.jp/aperc)
 In early 2010, the PREEs for Chinese, Taipei was conducted, then followed byPeru and Malaysia by early December 2010.
 The reports made a number of recommendations that have been welcomed by theparticipating economies, indentifying barriers – financial, technical (e.g. end-use
data, experts, standards, monitoring and evaluation, product testing) and political.

New Zealand

Chile

Viet Nam

Thailand

Chinese Taipei4

1-3 Overview of Current APERC Activities
Progress
CEEDS
Progress onon
CEEDS
 The CEEDS Phase 1 (2009/2010) on “Appliance EE Standards and•…………..
Labeling(AEES&L)” for 6 participating economies: Chile, China,Malaysia, The Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam.
• - ……………….
The 1st Workshop hosted by Chinese, Taipei in October 2009.
- The 2nd Workshop hosted by Japan in March 2010.
 The CEEDS Phase 2 (2010/2011) on “Building Energy Codes &Labeling)”- The 1st Workshop hosted by Thailand in September 2010
- The 2nd Workshop hosted by Hong Kong, China in January 2011

2-1 Overview of Future APERC Activities.
5th Edition of APEC Energy Demand and Supply Outlook
APEC Energy Ministers’ Fukui Declaration:“We instruct the EWG to assess the potential for reducing
the energy intensity of economic output in APEC
economies between 2005 and 2030, beyond the 25 percent
aspirational goal already agreed by the APEC Leaders, withassistance from APERC, EGEDA and EGEEC.”APERC will assess an alternative scenario focusing on sustainable energyfuture2-2 Overview of Future APERC Activities
Continuation of PREE, Follow-up PREE and CEEDSAPEC Energy Ministers’ Fukui Declaration:“We commend the Peer Review on Energy Efficiency (PREE)
which has been successfully carried out for four APEC economies
and urge additional economies to participate”.
“We Instruct the EWG and APERC to keep promoting energy
efficiency through the Peer Review on Energy Efficiency (PREE)
and the Cooperative Energy Efficiency Design for Sustainability(CEEDS), and to consider follow-up efforts including capacity
building activities, policy research support and processes to gauge
the success of member economies’ efforts to implement therecommendations of these programs”.

2-3 Summary: PREE and CEEDSPREE
New Zealand

APEC Leaders
meeting

2007

PREE
Thailand

PREE
Viet NamPREE
Chinese Taipei

CEEDS Phase 1JapanPREE
Malaysia
PREEPeru2009

2010

PREE
Chile

EMM9 CEEDS Phase 2Thailand

CEEDS Phase 2
Hong Kong,China

2011
Future:Declaration to reduce energy
intensity of APEC region byat least 25% by 2030
Introduction of Peer Review
Mechanism

CEEDS Phase 1
Chinese Taipei

PREE in 2011, 2012, …
CEEDS Phase 3, 4, ….

APERC reported
progress on peer review
mechanism2-4 Overview of Future APERC Activities
Mechanisms for introducing Low-Carbon Energy Supply /Low-Emission Power Sources, building on the PREE success
APEC Energy Ministers’ Fukui Declaration:
CLEAN ENERGY SUPPLY“We instruct the EWG to explore mechanisms to encourage economies
to set individual goals and action plans for introducing lowemission power sources, building upon the success of the PREE,
with assistance from APERC and relevant technology expert groups”.

3-1 Peer Review on policies to promote
Low-Carbon Energy Supply.
RationaleThe Sydney 2007 to Singapore 2009 Leaders’ Declarations call for
responsive actions to promote the deployment of low-carbon
energies including renewables, CCS, nuclear and cleaner use of fossilenergy.
APEC Energy Ministers at their 9th Meeting in Fukui, Japan in 2010
instructed EWG to explore mechanisms to encourage APEC
economies to set individual goals and action plans for introducing lowemission power sources. In the instruction note, the Ministers also
wanted EWG with assistance from APERC and relevant technology
expert groups to use the success of Peer Review on Energy Efficiency(PREE) as the guidance.

3-2 Peer Review on policies to promote
Low-Carbon Energy Supply.
Objectives
 Enable APEC economies to improve the effectiveness of theirpolicies, goals and action plans in promoting low-carbon energy(e.g. Renewables) through a Peer Review Mechanism.
 Encourage APEC economies in setting RE goals and formulating
action plans to achieve the goals.
 Share experience on RE performance, policy measures and actions inpromoting RE and broadening the network among member economies.
 Explore how government policies can accelerate the development
and implementation of potential low-carbon energy supplies e.g.
Renewables Investments.

3-3 Peer Review on policies to promote
Low-Carbon Energy Supply.
Objectives (cont.) Identify effective policies and best practices for RE promotion toencourage technological innovations and promote large-scalecommercialization.
 Provide recommendations for voluntary implementation on how
implementation of action plans could be improved with a view toachieving the goals as well as alternatives to overcome the existing
impediments in the current plan.
To explore ways that cooperative efforts through APEC could assist
APEC member economies in formulating more effective and efficient
policies in RE promotion.

3-4 Peer Review on policies to promote
Low-Carbon Energy Supply.
Policy Focus
 Regulatory Policy- Feed-in-tariff (FIT) / Adder- RPS
 Economic Policy- Financial / Incentive- PriceTo ensure goals and action plans are fully achieved
To carefully consider different circumstances, based on hosteconomy’s priorities

3-5 Peer Review on policies to promote
Low-Carbon Energy Supply.
Examples of Policy Areas for Peer Review
1) Policies to encourage entrepreneurial innovation and investment inpromoting RE
2) Appropriate policies on FIT (feed-in tariffs) and RPS to promote RE.
3) Policies to overcome non-economic / administrative barriers at various
stages of RE development and deployment
4) RE financing & fund (e.g. fiscal incentives such as tax exemptions orinvestment grants).
5) Carbon pricing policies (e.g. emission trading / carbon tax)6) More effective policies to make RE competitive against conventionalenergy sources.
7) More effective RD&D policy to promote RE.
8) More comprehensive policy design to encourage low-carbon
communities.

3-6 Peer Review on policies to promote
Low-Carbon Energy SupplyActivities
1) Invite APEC economy to voluntarily host the Peer Review
2) Define scope of review
3) Review team establishment – set up APEC expert team4) Prepare background information on RE policies of the host economy
5) Review team visit
6) Draft review report with recommendations
Expected Outcomes
1) Discussion on review report and endorsement of the report withrecommendations at EWG meeting
2) Publication- APERC website (http://www.ieej.or.jp/aperc) with link to APEC
websiteThe assistance from APEC expert groups e.g. EGNRET and relevant APEC
task-forces is the great key of success.

Thank YouPREE Peer Review Reports, Compendium andCEEDS Phase 1 Report are available in APERC website
http://www.ieej.or.jp/aperc/