REEEP

Outcomes 7th REEEP Global Funding Round for the Pacific region

Melbourne, 15.05.2009 - (written by Maaike Göbel, REEEP South East Asia and Pacific)

REEEP has announced that it will fund forty-nine new clean energy projects in 25 countries, all designed to help kick-start the uptake of renewables and energy efficiency. This seventh funding round is the largest ever, representing a 46% increase over the sixth disbursement in June 2007.

This year Australia joined the governments of the UK, Norway, Ireland, Italy and New Zealand as REEEP programme donors. AusAID states that “REEEP's approach in working closely with AusAID and providing technical expertise through its Regional Secretariat enabled priority projects to be identified in an effective manner.  AusAID is keen to further explore how best REEEP and AusAID can work together in the Pacific region to address important renewable energy and energy efficiency issues.”

A total number of 4 projects to be implemented in the Pacific region were selected in the final stage of the selection process:

Priority Area	Topic	Implementing Agency
Sectoral approach to energy efficiency	hotel sector in Fiji	Greenlight Technologies,  Australian company
Energy efficiency & energy auditing	expansion of Minimum Energy Performance Standards & Labeling scheme to selected South Pacific Islands and energy auditing in selected North Pacific Islands	SOPAC
Microfinance	development of new microfinance systems for existing microfinance institutions in the Pacific to increase clean energy lending	Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC)
RE policy development and implementation	implementation of Renewable Energy Act in Tonga	Government of Tonga

 

In addition, four projects have been waitlisted. Implementation of two of these is subject to improvement of their proposal according to the recommendations by AusAID and the International Steering Committee:

Priority Area	Topic	Implementing Agency
Capacity building and skill transfer	Regional solar PV industry association and certification scheme	Global Sustainable Energy Solutions, Australian company
RE & EE policy development & implementation	Energy efficiency in government buildings, energy efficiency auditing	Government of Solomon Islands, regional government

 

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