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The feed-in tariff should apply to public and private power producers to boost renewable energy development and give it a bigger share of the energy mix in Indonesia. The project would have benefited from the feed-in tariff which provides better rate of return for the renewable energy power development.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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On project management and implementation, PLN's financial and management capacity needed to be strengthened and/or supported by qualified consultants and training. The project's design should have therefore included capacity assessment and capacity-building components to improve PLN's internal and project-related financial and management systems.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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On social safeguards, the project was hampered by difficulties in land acquisition, securing forestry permits, and soliciting project acceptance from affected people. The project lacked preparatory work on addressing social issues at the outset.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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ADB and the government should have evaluated the cost efficiency of renewable energy-based power generation in remote regions. Based on the total cost of each of the subprojects which included design, engineering, construction, project management, and social safeguards compliance), the average cost of 1 MW of power generation in 2013 is $2.7 million, considerably higher than diesel-based generation at $1 million per MW.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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At project implementation, Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) (State Electricity Company) should have assessed whether the engineering, procurement, construction modality was effective and appropriate for renewable energy projects. Experience from the project indicates that it may be more effective and efficient to procure engineering services and civil and electromechanical works separately.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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To improve the environmental performance of loans, the following measures are suggested: (i) a systematic and continuous approach in developing awareness and periodic capacity enhancement of the project staff regarding ADB's environmental policy, procedures, and requirements; (ii) as appropriate, ensuring timely mobilization and continuation of environmental experts by the executing agency, consultants, and contractors until loan closure; (iii) systematic supervision, monitoring, data mapping, and reporting mechanisms on implementation of environmental safeguards; and (iv) periodic rev

Project Number: 32298-043
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 3)
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The relevance and rationale for including an institutional strengthening component to promote power sector reforms is questionable given the uncertainty over the government's strategy for power sector reforms. It is necessary to ascertain the government's vision and strategy for far-reaching sector reforms before committing resources to implement these reforms in lending projects.

Project Number: 28212-013
Project Name: Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project
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The project design and monitoring framework included components that are not directly related to the project. The implementation arrangements for these components were different from ADB-financed ZPSHPP, and ZPSC did not have any role in implementing these components. This prevented effective monitoring of the implementation of these components by ADB review missions, and confirming their efficacy in achieving the outcomes. Furthermore, the indicators to measure the poverty alleviation impacts were poorly defined as a result these could not be monitored during review missions.

Project Number: 28212-013
Project Name: Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project
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Obtaining the agreement of affected people to the proposed resettlement sites and entitlements is also significant. Selecting relocation sites near an economic center provides better access to employment opportunities, and public services (such as schools and hospitals) help in obtaining the agreement of the affected people. Providing better housing conditions with basic infrastructure (such as piped water, electricity, internet, and telecommunications) modernized the lifestyle of the affected people, compared with old villages in mountainous areas.

Project Number: 28212-013
Project Name: Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project
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Affected households should be provided with full information regarding their entitlements, livelihood options, and access to other services; and to secure their agreement for proposed resettlement sites as early as possible. The project owner should proactively engage in the consultation process, without delegating the responsibility for managing the resettlement to local government agencies. Consultations with the affected people were not effectively conducted by the local government, which caused significant delays because of lack of consensus on the resettlement sites.

Project Number: 28212-013
Project Name: Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project
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Competent implementation supervision consultants are important to ensure the quality of the technical design and the performance of contractors for complex infrastructure projects. ZPSC highly appreciated the contribution from implementation consultants for the smooth implementation construction of the project within the original schedule.

Project Number: 28212-013
Project Name: Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project
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Establishing a dedicated entity for the design, construction, and operation the ZHSHPP contributed to the smooth implementation of the project and its subsequent operation. The core staff of Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Company (ZPSC) has been involved in the project from its inception, so the Company has a strong sense of ownership and institutional memory.

Project Number: 28212-013
Project Name: Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project
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The overall financial strength and institutional capability of the sector are important to ensure the successful implementation of large infrastructure projects which require a significant amount of counterpart financing. The ADB loan contributed 21% of the cost of the ZPSHPP and 15% of the total project cost; the remaining financing was mobilized from domestic banks, shareholder financing, and local government financing.

Project Number: 28212-013
Project Name: Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project
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A strong technical and economic rationale for the project ensures its success even if the institutional arrangements for its implementation change. Significant changes to the power sector in Hebei Province and to the implementation arrangements of the Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant (ZPSHPP) did not affect implementation of the ZPSHPP, as it had strong technical and economic relevance to the needs of the Hebei power system.

Project Number: 28212-013
Project Name: Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project
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Although the economic and financial benefits of the project were substantial for Afghanistan, they would have been greater if investment in distribution had been undertaken in a timely manner to take advantage of the capacity to import electricity through the project transmission line. The transmission line is currently used at less than full capacity - about 200 MW. It is possible to energize it to transmit up to 600 MW of electricity.

Project Number: 40043-013
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project (Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
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