TA 7619-MON: Updating Energy Sector Development Plan

The scope of this assignment focused on identification of priority interventions to attain an energy sector road map for the Government of Mongolia while enhancing energy security, improving the efficiency and promoting clean technologies.

The broad objective of the project was to improve power supply in Mongolia to meet additional demand in an environmentally sustainable.

The specific objectives of the project were:

• Comprehensive Sector Assessment: Assessing the sector to identify investment gaps and the urgent reforms required for creating an enabling environment for sustained sector development

• Medium term and Long-term Investment Plan: Formulate priority investments in power and energy.

• Capacity Development and Knowledge Dissemination: Enhance the government’s capacity in sector assessment and investment needs analysis.

Description of Services Provided

• Conducting literature review covering energy sector institutional capacity development reports, energy sector policies, strategies, laws and regulations, 2001 master plan and statistical data available through National Statistical Office, MMRE and the ADB

• Reviewing of activities undertaken under various donor funded energy sector development programs to enable them to quickly prepare the initial draft of the sector assessment report

• Further developing the initial draft based on secondary research by the team through qualitative primary information gather through interviews and FGDs.

• Conducting interviews and FGDs with key staff in the MMRE, related agencies and ADB staff

• Preparing detailed load forecasts for the country’s energy sector

• Preparing fuel price forecasts based on imported fuel price and domestic fuel costs

• Conducting Financial Capacity Assessment.