Project Title

APEC Workshop on Promoting Energy Efficiency in the Manufacturing Sector 

Project Year

2024   

Project Number

EWG_102_2024A 

Project Session

Session 1   

Project Type

Standard 

Project Status

Project in Implementation   
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Project No.

EWG_102_2024A 

Project Title

APEC Workshop on Promoting Energy Efficiency in the Manufacturing Sector 

Project Status

Project in Implementation 

Publication (if any)

 

Fund Account

APEC Support Fund 

Sub-fund

ASF: Energy Efficiency, Low Carbon and Energy Resiliency Measures (EELCER) 

Project Year

2024 

Project Session

Session 1 

APEC Funding

100,000 

Co-funding Amount

12,000 

Total Project Value

112,000 

Sponsoring Forum

Energy Working Group (EWG) 

Topics

Energy 

Committee

SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE) 

Other Fora Involved

 

Other Non-APEC Stakeholders Involved

 

Proposing Economy(ies)

Viet Nam 

Co-Sponsoring Economies

Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Japan; Chinese Taipei; Thailand; United States 

Expected Start Date

01/09/2024 

Expected Completion Date

31/12/2025 

Project Proponent Name 1

Vu Lien Huong 

Job Title 1

Head of Division, Multilateral Trade Policy Department 

Organization 1

Ministry of Industry and Trade, Viet Nam 

Postal Address 1

Not Applicable 

Telephone 1

+84-24-222-054-22 

Fax 1

Not Applicable 

Email 1

HUONGVL@moit.gov.vn; patbeo81@gmail.com 

Project Proponent Name 2

Not Applicable 

Job Title 2

Not Applicable 

Organization 2

Not Applicable 

Postal Address 2

Not Applicable 

Telephone 2

Not Applicable 

Fax 2

Not Applicable 

Email 2

Not Applicable 

Declaration

Vu Lien Huong 

Project Summary

The industrial sector, in particular the manufacturing industry have significant share of global energy consumption. Industrial manufacturing is the largest end-use sector in terms of both final energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions (more than 30% of the total) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652619331464). As a result, energy efficiency has acquired an important position when discussing about this industry. The need to mitigate the environmental impacts of manufacturing processes makes energy efficiency a key success factor for sustainable production. 

In this regard, Viet Nam proposes to hold 2-full day Workshop on Promoting Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing Sector. The main objective of the project is help economies and stakeholders to share information, experiences on how to promote energy efficiency in manufacturing industry as well as to provide recommendations on enhancing energy efficiency in this industry.

Relevance

Region

According to a report by UN Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the increase in greenhouse gas emissions is creating the world climate change. (https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/science/causes-effects-climate- change#:~:text=As%20greenhouse%20gas%20emissions%20blanket,the%20usual%2 0balance%20of%20nature). The average global temperature will increase by 1.5 Celcius degree as early as 2030 which leads to intensified desertification, reduced food production, increased sea levels and extreme climatic events . In this context, industrial manufacturing is the largest end-use sector (more than 30% of the total) in terms of both final energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652619331464). Not mentioning the great impact of manufacturing industry on environment, manufacturing industry plays an important role in the global economy. Manufacturing sector also plays an important role in the development of one economy. It supports both economic and social developments and also influences every aspect of people's life. 

Energy efficiency is the use of less energy to perform the same task or produce the same result ((https://www.energy.gov/eere/energy-efficiency-buildings-and- industry#:~:text=Energy%20efficiency%20is%20the%20use,less%20energy%20to%20 produce%20goods). Energy efficiency is an important topic in manufacturing. With rising energy costs and increasing environmental concerns, manufacturers are looking for ways to reduce energy consumption and improve their sustainability. Energy efficiency not only helps reduce energy costs but also contributes to a cleaner environment and a more sustainable future. Energy efficiency plays an important role when measuring the environmental impact of manufacturing industry. 

In APEC, energy efficiency is a popular topic. APEC has one Expert Group focusing on Energy Efficiency and Conservation, which proves the importance of energy efficiency in APEC. For many years, APEC economies have been sharing experiences in developing policies regarding energy efficiency. This project is also a chance for APEC economies continue to share experiences, policies regarding energy efficiency in the region, especially in manufacturing industry. Improving energy efficiency in manufacturing industry has significant environmental benefits. There are many ways to improve the energy efficiency in manufacturing industry. This project aims to hold a 2-full day Workshop in Viet Nam in 2024 that helps APEC and non – APEC economies and stakeholders to share about the experiences and good practices on how to promote energy efficiency in manufacturing industry.

Eligibility and Fund Priorities

This project is eligible for Energy Efficiency, Low Carbon and Energy Resiliency Measures Sub-fund since Category 2 projects are defined as all other energy efficiency, energy access and low carbon measures projects, including renewable energy projects.

Information and experiences shared in the Workshop will contribute to achieving APEC's aggregate energy intensity reduction goal of 45% by 2035 which was agreed at the APEC Leaders Meeting in Honolulu in 2011.

Capacity Building
Through project’s outputs (Workshop; Summary report), the proposed project will help to enable participants from member economies – particularly developing economies – to exchange information, experiences and good practices in promoting technology to contribute to sustainable energy transition towards a low carbon economy. Developing economies who send participants (for example: Viet Nam) to the Workshop will benefit most since their participants’ capacities are built while economies that are unable to send participants may somehow get information from uploaded presentations and summary report.

Objectives

The main objective of the project is to hold a 2-full day Workshop that helps economies and stakeholders to share information, experiences on promoting energy efficiency in manufacturing industry as well as to provide recommendations on enhancing energy efficiency in this industry.

Alignment

APEC

In 2017, APEC Ministers welcomed “the efforts toward reducing aggregate energy intensity, accelerating clean, efficient, and renewable energy deployment, pursuing sustainable and resilient energy development, and developing diversified, flexible and integrated natural gas market in the Asia-Pacific, which in particular may contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” They also urged “economies to strengthen coordination and cooperation through sharing best practices, and deploying advanced technologies, including waste recycling.”

In 2022, the APEC Leaders stated that “we affirm our commitment to promote strong, balanced, secure, sustainable and inclusive growth. We recognize that more intensive efforts are needed to address today’s challenges, including climate change, extreme weather and natural disasters, food security, and sustainable energy transitions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while ensuring energy resilience, access and security in the region, including by facilitating investments in relevant activities”.

Also in Ministerial Statement in 2023, it is said that “we… ensure the energy security, resilience, and access in the region, taking into account the latest scientific developments and different domestic circumstances”.

By promoting energy efficiency in manufacturing industry, the project will contribute to implement the Leaders’ aspirational goals to reduce aggregate energy intensity by 45 percent by 2035 and address climate change challenge, contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 

The project also aligns with APA Objective: Environmental & climate challenges and natural disasters: “We will promote economic policies, cooperation and growth, which will support global efforts to comprehensively address all environmental challenges, including climate change, extreme weather and natural disasters, for a sustainable planet”.

Forum

This project will contribute to meet the aspirational goals of APEC Economic Leaders in 2011 to energy intensity by at least 45 percent by 2035 and doubled renewable energy in the regional energy mix by 2030. 

In addition, the EWG’s Strategic Plan 2019-2023 has a vision that the APEC region will “transition to a lower carbon economy through the continued development of cleaner energy sources and technologies, to achieve our individual and regional energy aspirations and goals”.

TILF/ASF Justification

Not Applicable.

Beneficiaries and Outputs

Outputs

1) Pre-Workshop Survey
We intend to conduct a Pre-Workshop survey (online survey questionnaire), before the Workshop, in order to develop a view on the current state of using energy and promoting energy efficiency in manufacturing sector. The survey will cover some aspects such as: current situation of energy efficiency in manufacturing sector, challenges and opportunities in promoting energy efficiency in manufacturing, sharing some policies in promoting energy efficiency in manufacturing sector. The Survey will be sent to all participants and EWG focal points before the Workshop and will also help the Project focus on issues most pertinent to the member economies and develop substantive recommendations. The result of the survey will be incorporated and summarised in the Summary Report.

2) Workshop

A 2-full day Workshop will be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam in June 2025. 

We expect there will be 6-10 speakers/ moderators and about 60 participants attending the Workshop. The first day of the Workshop will be presentations of speakers, followed by Q&A Sessions and a break-out Session. The second day of the Workshop will be presentations, Q&A, group break-out and a panel discussion. 

The Workshop may include presentations on overview, information, experiences, best practices on using and promoting energy efficiency in Manufacturing sector. Participants and speakers can continue to share ideas, experiences and discuss further in the Q&A Session at the end of each Session. The group break out and panel discussion Sessions will focus on suggestions at economy and APEC levels for consideration of activities/ policies to promote economies on using and promoting energy efficiency in Manufacturing sector. This Session also recap the key learnings and facilitates discussion amongst participants about what they gained most from the event and how they can or plan to apply information and resources gained at the Workshop to apply in their economy. Participants can actively share their perspectives and clarify their concerns on this topic, discuss on solutions to solve the problems for practical implementation. Organizers will encourage recommendations with substantial guidance or requirement on necessary resources to implement such recommendations. Also, the Organisers will try to include gender issue in the Discussion session and encourage the speakers to include gender-issue in their presentations. 

The Post-event evaluation will help Organisers to assess the level of knowledge/capacity of participants regarding the topic. This Evaluation will help the Organizer to collect additional recommendations/suggestions from speakers and participants on promoting energy efficiency in manufacturing industry. 

The Workshop will gather various stakeholders such as energy and technology-related government officials, private sectors (domestic and international energy companies, manufacturing companies and technology companies), energy/technology associations, international organisations (for example International Energy Agency, OECD, UNEP, etc) and/or researchers from APEC economies.

3) Summary Report

A summary report (minimum of 15 pages, excluding annexes) with outcomes and recommendations from the Workshop will be presented to EWG. Such report will include substantive content of continuing value for members, such as survey findings, summaries of key presentations and discussions, case studies, best practices, recommendations etc. and be composed of the following, but not limited to, sections: introduction of the project; briefings of the presentations made at the Workshop, including best practices; briefings on discussions at the Workshop; suggested recommendations made by Workshop participants and the speakers.

Participants will provide recommendations by 2 ways: (i) during discussions at the Workshop, (ii) at the Post–event Evaluation forms that are provided at the end of the Workshop. 

Targeted audience of the summary report: project attendants, EWG, Expert Group on New and Renewable Energy Technologies, Expert Group on Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EGEE&C), experts from manufacturing companies, Policy-makers/ regulators in the energy/manufacturing sector, especially those who have experiences in energy, energy efficiency in APEC economies. 

Purpose: summarise discussions and recommendations at the Workshop.

Outcomes

1) Increased knowledge and awareness amongst participants regarding how to promote energy efficiency in manufacturing industry. The Workshop is expected to increase capacity for participants, the regulators, policy makers and businesses in manufacturing industry working on or related to energy efficiency. Awareness level of participants will be measured by the Post-event evaluation; key policies, legal and regulatory settings will be made at Discussion session and written in the Summary report.

2) Improved coordination/collaborative actions and recommendations to promote energy efficiency in manufacturing sector. In the short term, the organisers expect these stakeholders to integrate knowledge and information absorbed from the Workshop to apply in practice. Participants from developing economies will also have a chance to learn about case studies and best practices from APEC economies, from which they can draw lessons, experiences to apply in their economy. In medium and long term, the recommendations made at the workshop will be a resource/ reference guide for APEC economies to consider in developing policies at economy’s or APEC’s level. This outcome will be measured by question(s) in the Post-event Evaluation form, asking participants which recommendation they consider most relevant and applicable to their own economy.

Beneficiaries

The target participants of the Workshop are: 

Government officials and policy-makers, businesses from APEC economies, who are directly involved in energy sector and manufacturing sector. They may come from Department of Energy, Energy Regulatory Body, Energy Efficiency Agency, etc. and government officials / policy makers, businesses working in manufacturing industry. The level of those people are from junior to mid level. The skills required are: can communicate in English, working in organisations related to energy efficiency, manufacturing; have experiences in policy making. 

-  Local and international experts from private sectors/businesses specialized in energy, energy efficiency and manufacturing sector. The expertise, number of years and level will be defined by the organizations sending the participants. 

-  Local and international experts from academic sector who has experiences in research in energy efficiency and manufacturing sector. 

The project will aim to be inclusive to all economies regardless of the current energy efficiency level. Additional beneficiaries include stakeholders in multilateral fora and academic and research institutes such as Representatives from international/ regional organizations such as Expert Group on New and Renewable Energy Technologies, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), International Energy Agency (IEA) etc. These are people who can benefit from the recommendations of the Workshop.

Dissemination

For eco-friendly purposes, we will try to conduct paperless meeting as much as possible. Electronic copies of Workshop presentations and summary report will also be circulated to speakers and participants. All Workshop presentations and materials will be uploaded to Google drive and the link will be shared to speakers and participants to download prior to the Workshop. A project’s summary report will also be prepared and submitted to the EWG (minimum of 15 pages, excluding annexes) with outcomes and recommendations from the Workshop will be presented to EWG. Target audience of the summary report: Workshop speakers and participants, EWG/ EGEE&C and Expert Group on New and Renewable Energy focal points and other interested persons/organization; related government officials, business association working on renewable energy and manufacturing industry; international organisations (for example World Bank, OECD, UNEP, etc.) and/or researchers from APEC economies. Given APECs strong focus on electronic and digital publishing, workshop material and other documents will be disseminated electronically as much as possible.

The Summary Report will not be an APEC publication. No intention to sell outputs arising from this project.

Gender

Please see Project Proposal in Supporting Documents folder.

Work Plan

Please see Project Proposal in Supporting Documents folder.

Risks

Please see Project Proposal in Supporting Documents folder.

Monitoring and Evaluation

Please see Project Proposal in Supporting Documents folder.

Linkages

Engagement: APEC EWG will take the leading role in implementing this project. Information will be disseminated to other relevant fora (Expert Group on New and Renewable Energy Technologies, APEC Expert Group on Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Expert Group on Clean Fossil Energy, Low Carbon Model Town Task Force) to encourage their participation in the Workshop. Organizers will work closely with relevant regional and international organizations (International Energy Agency, OECD, UNEP, UNESCAP) and representatives from APEC groups with related policy to get inputs, benefit from the perspectives and expertise from these groups and enhance engagements.

Previous Work: 

There were many projects touching on energy efficiency and manufacturing sector, separately such as: EWG 06 2022A, EWG 05 2021A, EWG 11 2021A, GOS 06 2019T etc.

However, the linkage between energy efficiency and manufacturing industry has never been discussed before in APEC. Realizing this scarcity, the Organisers intend to focus on this topic. The main objective of the project is to help APEC stakeholders to share experiences and good practices in promoting energy efficiency in manufacturing sector as well as develop a set of recommendation on how to promote energy efficiency in this industry. Session on recommendation will not only include further activities/ initiatives but organizers will also encourage participants to provide recommendations on actionable policy (policies) after the Workshop that can contribute to achieving the project’s goal. 

APEC’s Comparative Advantage: APEC is the best source of funding for this project because APEC has been working actively on energy efficiency, particularly activities to exchange policies, rules, planning and investments to boost energy efficiency towards the APEC aspirational target of reducing aggregate energy intensity by 45% from 2005 levels by 2035. The results of the Workshop will contribute to the overall APEC energy- related work.

Sustainability

APEC economies can take in recommendations and spread the experiences and lessons in a wider range. Experts can make use of results or outcomes of this project in expected future projects. Participants can create cooperative network or means of future exchange of ideas and discussions. Possible future actions to be reflected in the summary report will be discussed at EWG, in close consultations with other related APEC sub-fora. In the Workshop, since the final Session will be devoted to floor discussion, participants will be encouraged to suggest policy/ actionable recommendations, which will then be submitted to EWG for their review. This can be a valuable resource for economies and organizations to consider their future activities, actions, regulations.

Besides, since the beneficiaries of the workshop will be government officials, business working related to energy efficiency, renewable energy and manufacturing sector, it is important that these stakeholders share the Summary Report which include best practice and recommendations come out of the workshop to other relevant stakeholders (officials, businessman) and transform it to actions to promote energy efficiency in manufacturing industry.

The summary report will suggest next steps (future APEC Workshop, seminar, events, capacity building, study, research, survey etc.) based on the discussions of the Workshop. Such summary report will be submitted to EWG.

Project Overseers

Not Applicable.

Cost Efficiency

Not Applicable.

Drawdown Timetable

Not Applicable.

Direct Labour

Please see Project Proposal in Supporting Documents folder.

Waivers

Please see Project Proposal in Supporting Documents folder.

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