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Lesson
Project cost estimates need to factor in all duties and taxes, not only on machinery and equipment but also on service providers. Assessments of banking rules and the government's budget implementation process are also needed.

Project Number: 42001-013
Project Name: Philippine Energy Efficiency Project
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One of the major lessons from implementing the project is the importance of obtaining land and forestry permits, acquiring land, and obtaining ROWs (right of ways) for transmission lines at the right time. ADB and PLN (Perusahaan Listrik Negara, or State Electricity Company) have different strategies on the timing of obtaining ROW: PLN's practice is to obtain ROW after transmission towers are erected, while ADB's policy is to obtain ROW before the erection of transmission towers.

Project Number: 35139-013
Project Name: Power Transmission Improvement Sector Project
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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 39653-033
Project Name: Guangdong Energy Efficiency and Environment Improvement Investment Program, Tranche 2
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The integrated approach to disaster recovery operations beyond infrastructure restoration to also include activities directed at restoring livelihood and improving the resilience of infrastructure and economic activity to disasters.

Project Number: 39631-013
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 39653-023
Project Name: Guangdong Energy Efficiency and Environment Improvement Investment Program, Tranche 1
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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 30403-013
Project Name: Coal Mine Methane Development Project
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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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ADB should have foreseen the risk of a new entity, the National Power Transmission Corporation, which was significantly different from the designated implementing and executing agencies, and that this could possibly interfere in project implementation arrangements. At design, such risk should have been mitigated through appropriate loan and/or finance agreement clauses.

Project Number: 32273-013
Project Name: Northern Power Transmission Sector Project
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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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