Promoting Growth through Sustainable and Efficient Energy Consumption in Commercial Sector

Overall Objectives of NAMA Promoting Belize’s low carbon development to achieve sustainable growth of businesses and greater returns on investments focus is on large and medium sized commercials to adopt EE production and operations because 2/3 of national energy saving potential is in Commercial sector, Developing standards and labels to promote adoption of EE technologies; Introduce financial incentives to establish a fully operational market for EE technologies; Developing a regulatory framework to ensure compliance; This slide describes the objectives of the NAMA: ideally in a diagram form or picture. Panelists should describe the objective in relation to the country’s development and/or climate strategies.

National development strategies & Policies Sustainable Energy Action Plan (refers to labelling and certification systems in chapter 1), completed, Rural Electrification Strategy and Action Plan (EU supported, on-going), Draft Utility Energy Services Model (under discussion, goal to develop a market place, including audits and auctions), Assessing National Innovation Systems (completed, next step: Industrial Policy to mainstream EE in the industry), With the overall objective to achieve the SDGs, including the NDC targets. This slide describes the success factors of the NAMA: we will provide a list of common success factors from which the panelists can relate their NAMAs to and elaborate on their specific cases

Technical Interventions 3 Key Goals: Existing Commercials: Replacing existing non-efficient technologies with more efficient appliances and fixtures; in the mid-term retrofit of windows/roofs (through a regional standard under discussion); New Commercials: Adopt the mandatory building code (forthcoming, 2017) and implement energy efficient technologies; Early Actions will focus on the following technologies: AC/cooling, solar water heaters, lighting, refrigeration, smart metering and electrical fixtures;

Early Actions EE measures in Commercials through adoption of: AC/cooling, solar water heaters, lighting, refrigeration, smart metering and electrical fixtures;

Early Actions – Unit Costs AC/cooling: BZ$ 12,500 (unit/5t) solar water heaters: BZ$ 14,000 (unit/2000l) Lighting: BZ$ 30 (LED 9W) Refrigeration: BZ$ 3,500 (unit 30cf) smart metering: BZ$ 500 electrical fixtures: BZ$ 100

Early Actions – Scale AC/cooling: BZ$ 12,500 x 6 (per commercial) x 1200 solar water heaters: BZ$ 14,000 x 1 (per hotel) x 300 Lighting: BZ$ 30 x 100 (per system) x 1500 Refrigeration: BZ$ 3,500 x 10 (per system) x 1500 smart metering: BZ$ 500 x 1 (per system) x 1500 electrical fixtures: BZ$ 100 x 20 (per systems) x 1500

Early Actions – Total Costs AC/cooling: BZ$ 90,000,000 solar water heaters: BZ$ 4,200,000 Lighting: BZ$ 4,500,000 Refrigeration: BZ$ 52,500,000 smart metering: BZ$ 750,000 electrical fixtures: BZ$ 3,000,000 Total Costs: BZ$ 154,950,000

Supporting Measures - Policy Develop new standards (lighting completed, refrigeration on-going, AC and others forthcoming); Adopt Caribbean labelling system (on-going); Fiscal measures (penalty mechanism/banning) MRA with Mexico to use their MRV system; Establish legal framework and enforcement mechanisms, including reporting requirements of establishments; Adopt Caribbean building code (on-going); Costs of Enforcement: BZ$ 250,000 annually (x 3 years)

Supporting Measures – Technical Assistance Market and SD Impact Assessment (identify costs, financing and socio-economic impacts) – request for external assistance (2017); Costs: BZ$ 200,000 Technical Assistance to build an MRV system to assess the GHG & SD impacts of the policies and actions; Costs: BZ$ 100,000

Supporting Measures – Awareness & Capacity Building Capacity development to operate the MRV system; Capacity of overall supply chain, including vendors, technology providers through new training courses with accredited training institutes (Caribbean accreditation mechanism is on-going); Cost: BZ$ 500,000 Best practice guide (tools); Cost: BZ$ 70,000 Benchmarking and award systems for best performing establishments; Systematic dialogs with industry leaders and government; Behavioural change in establishments through staff trainings;

Supporting Measures – Total Costs Costs of Enforcement of Policies and Regulations: BZ$ 250,000 annually (x 3 years): BZ$ 750,000 Market and SD Impact Assessment: BZ$ 200,000 Technical Assistance to build an MRV system: BZ$ 100,000 Capacity of overall supply chain: BZ$ 500,000 Best practice guide (tools); BZ$ 70,000 Total Costs: BZ$ 1,620,000

Finance mechanism – International Grants Supporting Measures: BZ$ 1,620,000 Enabling environment, technical studies and assessments, capacity development and trainings:

Finance mechanism - Loans Utility Energy Service Model – develop an energy efficiency portfolio (successfully implemented in several states of the USA): Model tested for 3 years on commercials and then decide to scale-up; Premium of EE technology and energy efficient fixtures is covered by utility; Only ‘star’ certified equipment is eligible; Green funding line set up through the development bank of Belize: Revolving loan fund to incentivize retrofits; Seed grant funding of BZ$ 10-20mio through international donor; Pilot on-going (BZ$ 2mio) to test immediate cash flow benefit;

Institutional arrangements – Management and Funds Oversight, Coordination and implementation: Ministry of Public Services, Energy, Public Utilities (MPSEPU) Grants: Ministry of Economic Development Revolving Green Loan Fund: Development Finance Corporation Energy Service Model: Belize Electricity Limited Implementation through Energy End Use Working Group: Bureau of Standards, Department of Environment, National Climate Change Office, Customs and Excise CBA etc. This slide describes the success factors of the NAMA: we will provide a list of common success factors from which the panelists can relate their NAMAs to and elaborate on their specific cases

Institutional arrangements - MRV Ministry of Sustainable Development (MAFFESD) Reporting vis a vis UNFCCC Compilation of data for GHG ERs, support received (financial), SD impacts: Ministry of Public Services, Energy, Public Utilities (submit to MAFFESD) This slide describes the success factors of the NAMA: we will provide a list of common success factors from which the panelists can relate their NAMAs to and elaborate on their specific cases

Implementation steps and timeframe Target Timeline (months) Institutional Structure In place Pilot Green Funding Line for EE technologies (managed by DFC / technical assistance through MPSEPU) Next steps: Market and SD Impact Assessment MRV framework and MRA Pilot utility energy service Building codes Best practice guide On-going 2016-17 2017 2016-2017

National Contact: Ambrose Tillet Energy Director