USAID Vietnam Low Emission Energy Program (V-LEEP) Quarterly Report FY16 Q2

The program aims to promote the development of critical building blocks to scale up clean energy, such as accessible smart incentives for clean energy and energy efficiency investments, enabling a competitive environment for renewable energy generation, enhancing renewable power grid integration, and ensuring locational concentration of clean energy generation facilities. Three components form the core tasks under the approved V-LEEP Year 1 Work Plan. Component 1 focuses on Low Emission Strategy Development for the Energy Sector, with Task 1.1 aimed at enhancing GVN capacity to analyze and develop clean energy strategies, and evaluate emission mitigation options for decision making. Component 2, Enhance Capacity and Improve Enabling Environment for Renewable Energy Development, includes Task 2.1, which aims to enhance the capacity of Vietnamese renewable energy developers. Component 3, Industrial Energy Efficiency, involves tasks related to the characterization of industrial energy efficiency data collection and reporting systems. During the second quarter of FY16, Deloitte expanded the V-LEEP project's technical work, completed mobilization, brought on new staff, and initiated work with the Ministry of Industry and Trade's General Directorate of Energy (MOIT/GDE) on the Project Document (PD). The V-LEEP team made steady progress towards obtaining GVN Activity Approval, with meetings held with representatives from MOIT/GDE to review the Project Outline and respond to MOIT/GDE's feedback. An accelerated project was developed for completion in April, under which V-LEEP team members would meet with representatives from GDE's various departments and solicit feedback on the PD, consolidate that feedback, and then revise the PD accordingly. V-LEEP made progress under each of the project's three technical components during the past quarter. During January, V-LEEP presented the geographic priority areas criteria and selection results. Energy policy and modeling mapping continues under Component 1, and V-LEEP plans to present results to USAID in Q3. Under Component 2, the characterization of renewable energy (RE) developers was initiated, and industry characterization work under Component 3 continues, as does the overview of existing industrial energy efficiency data collection and reporting systems. V-LEEP plans to present the results of this work to USAID during the first half of Q3. The V-LEEP team plans to continue work on the Year 1 Work Plan deliverables across all components, finalize the MOIT/GDE PD, and implement the U.S. Study Tour in the upcoming quarter. The approved Year 1 Work Plan activities for Components 1 and 3 are on track, but Deloitte anticipates that some minor adjustments in scheduling will be necessary due to the pending GVN Activity Approval. Some deliverables under Component 2 will also be delayed, but are anticipated to be completed this work plan year.