CIF-GDI Climate Delivery Labs | From Carbon to Competition: Cambodia’s Transition to a Clean Energy Development Pathway

In 2017, with burgeoning economic and energy demand growth in the country, nearly 5 million Cambodians lacked access to electricity—only 82 percent of villages and 69 percent of households connected to the national power supply.

The CIF’s Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program (SREP) and ADB have worked closely with the Government of Cambodia to reformulate how the nation approached power generation: moving from thermal and large hydro to scalable, low-cost renewables; from bilaterally negotiated power purchase agreements to competitive international tendering; and from binary public or private operating and ownership structures to complex blended risk-sharing modalities. The end result: the Cambodia National Solar Park, an ambitious new venture that saw 26 high-level international power producers from more than 11 countries bid for first-mover advantages in developing large-scale renewable energy assets in Cambodia, and a two-step reverse auction securing a final tariff of US$0.039/kWh, a record-low for the region and roughly one-third of what Cambodia was paying on average. The solar park will also feature the country’s first battery energy storage pilot installation.

This Climate Delivery Lab will convene industry experts, independent power producers, climate/commercial financiers and climate change specialists to dissect the main challenges that emerging economies face when transitioning to renewables, and discuss tested and evolving strategies for realising lasting low-carbon trajectories.

DOCUMENTS

Click here to download the case study and summary​  

 

SPEAKERS

Pradeep Tharakan

Unit Head Sovereign Energy Operations, Greater Mekong subregion (GMS) (ADB)

Based in ADB’s Thailand Resident Mission working with governments and state-owned utilities in the GMS to design, develop and finance clean energy infrastructure.

Madu Selvakumar

Monitoring and Evaluations Specialist CIF

Comes from 8 years of working on economic impact analyses of infrastructure and clean technology investments.

Ferran Vila Planas

Public-Private Partnership Specialist ADB

Ferran is based in ADB’s HQ in Manila and works with governments and state-owned enterprises implementing Public-Private Partnerships.

Sruti Bandyopadhyay

Knowledge Management Officer Global Delivery Initiative, World Bank

Leads the GDI Program, which aims to identify, articulate and share existing delivery knowledge in Operations through practical tools and approaches

REGISTER

• External Participants: Register
• World Bank Staff: RSVP and add to calendar
• Join Using WebEx: Meeting number (access code): 160 035 4015;  Meeting password: CIFGDI2020
• Join Using Phone: Call-in numbers: 1-650-479-3207 ; Access code: 160 035 4015 Global call-in numbers

For additional information, contact mselvakumar@worldbank.org and rlukasiewicz@worldbank.org