KDS team (Team manager of Sustainable
Development Team, Ya Ya Kim and Program Officer, Hannah Park) visited Ho Chi
Minh City, Vietnam to carry out a project, “Promoting Investment Market for
Energy Efficiency in industry in Vietnam” from September 31 to October 2, 2019.
During the visit to Vietnam, KDS participated in the 2nd conference
on development of Energy Efficiency Project and conducted base-line and end-line
surveys.
The conference was held at the Majestic Hotel
on October 1, with a total of 62 participants including the director general
and the deputy director of MOIT (Ministry of Industry and Trade), the country
director and deputy director of KOICA Vietnam, key stakeholders, industrial
stakeholders in Vietnam, press, etc. At the conference, attendees were highly
interested in promoting the investment market of Energy Efficiency (EE). The
one-day conference was consisted of opening speeches by the director general of
MOIT as well as the country director of KOICA Vietnam followed by introductions
on the progress of project, EE funding in Vietnam, EE investment case in Korea
and Vietnam, and a Q&A session that showed attendees’ attention. In
particular, at the conference, the KDS team with a performance management partner
(RCEE-NIRAS) conducted a survey by distributing survey forms to attendees to
assess awareness improvements on EE such as necessity and effectiveness of
Energy Audit, EE solution and Technology, EE investment model based on ESCO,
and financing source and procedure for investment in EE.
The team also had meetings to do a final
check-up on conducting the survey and discuss implementation of additional
surveys and result analysis with RCEE-NIRAS before/after the conference. This
conference and performance management activities are expected to act as a growth
engine to promote the project.
***KDS plans to present a final performance
management report based on the analysis of survey results at a conference which
will be held in December.
