Energy

Samoa
• Loans 2368/8232 and Grants 0087/0101-SAM: Power Sector Expansion
Project
• Approved 2008, $100 million project cofinanced with AusAID and JICA.
• Sector loan to support Samoa power sector - 29 subprojects
• Range of contract packages envisaged for 2010-2014.
• CDTA: Support to the Power Sector Regulator
• Proposed 2010 technical assistance project – consultancy firm required
2010 to assist in regulatory reform.
Federated States of Micronesia
• Loan 2099-FSM Omnibus Infrastructure.
• Upgrade of energy sector in Chuuk, including construction of new
diesel power station, improved distribution and utility management
support. Tenders to be let end 2009.
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Papua New Guinea
• PPTA 7113-PNG: Town Electrification (formerly Preparing the Power Sector
Development Project)
• PPTA ongoing.
• Proposed loan 2010. Implementation consultant services required
2011, works and equipment bidding packages let 2011.
Republic of Marshal Islands
• JFPR: Improved Energy Supply to Urban Households
• 2010 approval. $3 million.
• Output 1: Improved access and management of electricity for the poor
through installation of pre-payment meters.
• Output 2: Extension of power to the poor and upgrading distribution
systems through extending the distribution grid and improving quality
of supply on existing grid.
• Output 3: Trialing of coconut blended fuels in main power stations to
generate alternative incomes for the poor.
• Consulting services and procurement (works and equipment) packages
let 2010.
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Regional
• RETA: Promoting Renewable Energy in the Pacific
• $3 million– PNG, SOL, VAN.
• PNG: hydropower, SOL: coconut oil biofuel for power generation, VAN:
solar power.
• Consultant recruitment commenced for SOL. Consulting services
required for PNG and VAN 2010.
• RETA: 6485-REG: Promoting Energy Efficiency in the Pacific.
• TA ongoing. Follow-on upscaling project will commence in 2010 with $1
million CDTA, $6 million from Global Environment Fund ($6 million) and
potential cofinancing.
• Consulting services required 2010.
• RETA: Strengthening the Capacity of Pacific Developing Member Countries
to Respond to Climate Change.
• Waiting funding approval. 2010 implementation
• Includes (i) $1 million for upscaling renewable energy, and (ii) $0.5
million for promotion of the Clean Development Mechanism to promote
carbon trading.
• Consulting services required 2010.
 For More Information

Anthony Maxwell, Energy Specialist, PAHQ

amaxwell@adb.org

Robert Kesterton, Energy Specialist, PAHQ

rkesterton@adb.org