📋 Tender Overview
Project No.
PPSTI_103_2025A
Project Title
Capacity Building to Accelerate Investment on Energy Resilient Infrastructure towards APEC Energy Goals
Project Status
Project in Implementation
Fund Account
APEC Support Fund
Sub-fund
ASF: Energy Efficiency, Low Carbon and Energy Resiliency Measures (EELCER)
Project Year
2025
Project Session
Session 1
APEC Funding
92,448
Co-funding Amount
14,000
Total Project Value
106,448
Sponsoring Forum
APEC Policy Partnership on Science, Technology and Innovation (PPSTI)
Topics
Science and Technology; Investment; Energy
Committee
SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE)
Other Fora Involved
Energy Working Group (EWG)
Other Non-APEC Stakeholders Involved
Proposing Economy(ies)
Thailand
Co-Sponsoring Economies
Indonesia; Japan; Korea; Chinese Taipei; Viet Nam
Expected Start Date
01/11/2025
Expected Completion Date
31/12/2026
Project Proponent Name 1
Nuwong CHOLLACOOP
Job Title 1
Low Carbon Energy Research Group Director
Organization 1
National Energy Technology Center (ENTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)
Telephone 1
+66815704321
Email 1
nuwong.cho@entec.or.th
Project Proponent Name 2
Kampanart Silva
Job Title 2
Researcher
Organization 2
National Energy Technology Center (ENTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)
Telephone 2
+66878120 502
Email 2
kampanart.sil@entec.or.th
Declaration
Nuwong CHOLLACOOP
Project Summary
Additional clean energy infrastructures are needed to meet APEC Energy Goals and achieve carbon neutrality goal. Projects to build resilient energy infrastructures attract fewer investors than mitigation projects due to unclear quantitative targets. Besides, these projects are often deemed unbankable due to the long payback period despite four times return on average. This project aims to establish a platform to facilitate discussion among STI entities, financial sector, government institutes, and private investors on win-win strategies to accelerate investment in energy resilient infrastructures with financial risk-pooling mechanisms. Additionally, hands-on capacity building with relevant players to design financially feasible energy infrastructure projects will be conducted during a two-day workshop in 2026 in Bangkok whose NDC includes adaptation measures, inviting aforementioned stakeholders, where guidelines for a bankable resilient energy infrastructure project are developed for widespread dissemination.
Relevance
Region
Recent disruptions in energy infrastructures highlight the need for investment to make them more resilient. Yet, adaptation projects attract fewer investors than mitigation projects due to a long payback period despite four times return on average. There is obvious necessity for capacity building for personnel in the energy and financial policy sector to be able to develop
