Energy Market Mechanism Accelerator (EMMA) Regional

Reference: RFP/2022/44629

Description: Energy Market Mechanism Accelerator (EMMA) Regional

Scope of Work:
i) Identify and deepen data, baseline and targets, current operations, challenges, needs and opportunities
ii) Legal and regulatory assessment of the current conditions, analysis of any existing policies, impediments and opportunities to maximizing benefits of market mechanisms
iii) Financial and fiscal identification of available financing, assessment of the impediments and opportunities,
iv) Political economy assessment that identifies key stakeholders, estimates the size of participants, develops an understanding of stakeholder concerns and efforts as well as impediments and opportunities, and charting pathways
v) Preparation of clear and concise, but comprehensive and detailed consultation materials,
vi) Develop a roadmap for progressive dialogue with the relevant personnel for policy dialogue and identify forums and arrangements for progressive dialogues in the three countries
vii) Development of PPA templates for application and expediting power procurement processes,
viii) Consultations with stakeholders and donors through a conduct of in-country seminars and consultations. It will establish a stakeholder forum involving the country stakeholders in a constructive discussion on the current state of market mechanisms and opportunities for optimization
ix) Develop a Monitoring and Evaluation framework for the initiative and report results under the program in alignment with and reporting to the ETP’s Results-based Monitoring Framework.

Ensuring economies of scale in undertaking the diagnostic and, concurrently, deep specificity and expertise in the respective country conditions in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, these services include the following assignments and deliverables:
a. Identify and deepen data, baseline and targets, current operations, challenges, needs and opportunities as well as plans for maximizing the benefits of energy market mechanisms.
b. Prepare clear and concise, but comprehensive and detailed consultation materials, covering impediments and opportunities, conduct of consultation processes as agreed with the ETP Secretariat and Greenmap, to aim at sustainable advancement in the use of market mechanisms.
c. Reports and documentation on the above topics, including project plan in the context of the inception report, progress reports on the consultations, and draft and final reports.
d. Develop a roadmap for progressive dialogue with the relevant personnel for policy dialogue and identify forums and arrangements for progressive dialogues in the three countries to reach phased and progressive decisions to attain greater use of market mechanisms and arrange for a series of consultations and policy dialogue with the relevant policymakers, their staffs, including at the highest-level decision-makers.
e. Consultations with stakeholders and donors through a conduct of in-country seminars and consultations. It will establish a stakeholder forum involving the country stakeholders in a constructive discussion on the current state of market mechanisms and opportunities for optimization

Duration: 12 months