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It is a good practice to provide relevant macroeconomic data to highlight the significance of environmental improvements. In the case of this project, the generation of secondary macroeconomic data, at the very least, could have strengthened the preliminary assessment of the project’s development impact. In discussing impacts of climate mitigation project and the co-benefits of air pollution reduction, it would be worthwhile to link these up with macro data.

Project Number: 47051-002
Project Name: Chemical Industry Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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When a project provides substantial climate mitigation and environmental benefits, a project economist with strong background and experience in environmental valuation method can undertake the project economic analysis at appraisal. Usually, energy efficiency improvement projects have very low pay back periods and high economic internal rate of return. ADB should investigate the ways in which it can formalize the use of carbon prices in energy efficiency project economic analysis.

Project Number: 47051-002
Project Name: Chemical Industry Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Shifts in the types of projects can affect the financing products that may be supported under the clean energy financing (CEFP) platform. At project design, the CEFP was planned to provide three types of financing products: entrusted loans, guarantee funds, and lease financing facilities. During implementation, only entrusted loans were utilized. The other two financing products were not used because of shifts in the types of projects which did not require guarantees and lease financing.

Project Number: 48452-004
Project Name: Shaanxi Accelerated Energy Efficiency and Environment Improvement Financing Project
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Upgrading and retrofitting for energy efficiency improvements during the production process may result in mutual interactions and uncertain impacts, which can cause implementation delays and safety risks. These factors should be noted by future device-upgrading projects in factories; for example, factories should be equipped with more safety and environmental protection personnel, and enough time should be reserved for projects that include upgrading of production processes.

Project Number: 47051-002
Project Name: Chemical Industry Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Technology innovations need to be encouraged, but caution requires that innovations be verified during implementation. The verification may entail additional trials and time, which could lead to longer implementation periods.

Project Number: 47051-002
Project Name: Chemical Industry Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Extensive consultations during project design and implementation strengthen stakeholder ownership of and responsibility for projects in turn enhancing their prospective impact and potential for success. During processing and implementation, consultation meetings with stakeholders at various levels were held on the project’s design, construction, safeguards, job opportunities, and ethnic minority and social impacts.

Project Number: 46058-002
Project Name: Qinghai Delingha Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Project
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Climate change can negatively impact the performance of solar power plants and this needs to be considered in planning and implementing similar projects. In the past 3 years, due to climate change, the project encountered more cloudy and rainy days than estimated at project appraisal. This has caused less solar direct irradiation, negatively impacting electricity generation. This experience may be useful in planning and implementing future solar projects.

Project Number: 46058-002
Project Name: Qinghai Delingha Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Project
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The government’s commitment and ownership strengthen the project’s credibility. Providing timely response and adequate support from start-up to completion are critical in overcoming the implementation difficulties in various occasions. For instance, the PMO’s leadership could have helped ensurethat assistance was provided on time to implementing agencies. This, in turn, would help in easing delays in the procurement activities and implementation of subprojects.

Project Number: 42383-023
Project Name: Shanxi Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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A project’s medium-term review (MTR provides an opportunity to reassess and modify a project’s DMF, in terms of realistic performance targets, configuration of components and/or outputs, subprojects’ selection, and timeframe of implementation. Project team could strive to review all project’s aspects during an MTR in addition to focusing on project administration and changes in scope.

Project Number: 42383-023
Project Name: Shanxi Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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Due diligence on project procurement should be improved to ensure that contract packaging, contracting methods, and standard bidding documents are defined to suit the needs and capacities of the EA and IAs, to avoid changes and noncompliance during implementation.

Project Number: 40682-013
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Biomass Energy Development Sector Project
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In terms of primary counterpart selection for project implementation in biogas use, the National Energy Administration should have had a leading role. It possesses the technological know-how on biogas use in rural areas to guide and demonstrate policy commitment to achieving the renewable energy targets at both county and provincial levels.

Project Number: 40682-013
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Biomass Energy Development Sector Project
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The implementation arrangement for the project was complicated. It particularly affected project progress when minor scope changes were needed, as four provinces had to be coordinated, as well as the secretariats of the GEF and the CEFPF on issues concerning the two grants. The government’s divisional counterparts for the ADB loan, the GEF grant, and the CEFPF grant were also different, and a lengthy coordination procedure was required for each change to the project or the grants.

Project Number: 40682-013
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Biomass Energy Development Sector Project
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It is essential to adopt an appropriate monitoring framework with relevant indicators to measure project results.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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The broad range of enterprises and technologies requires commercial banks to expand their knowledge and understanding of energy efficiency technologies to broaden project origination and monitoring skills.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Technical advisory and capacity building are critical in ensuring that commercial banks are able to assess risks and returns associated with energy efficiency investments.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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