1. Samui Low Carbon Town, Thailand
Ms. Munlika Sompranon
Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE)
Ministry of Energy, Thailand
The 2nd Workshop
APEC Low-Carbon Model Town Task Force
10 May 2016

2. Background of Samui Low Carbon Town
Area 227 km2, 7 sub-districts
High land 54%, Plain area 33%
Population ~ 63,000 people
Residents >180,000 people
Peak Demand 120 MW
Water Consumption 7.2 million cubic meter
No. of tourist 1,960,000 per annum
Hotels & Resorts 465, 21,793 rooms
GPP > 90% from tourism industry
Value GPP 33, million baht (1 billion USD)

3. Energy Situation in Base Year 2010
Sector
Energy Consumed
Units
Primary Energy
Percent (%)
(MJ)
(kTOE)
Residential
135,562.30
MWh
1,084,498,424
25.90
19.40%
Commercial
367,160.27
2,937,282,120
70.16
52.63%
Transportation
41,627,520
Liters
1,390,944,044
33.22
24.25%
Others (Agriculture, Industry, etc.)
21,022.65
168,181,216
4.02
3.01%
Total
5,580,905,804
133.30
100.00%
Total Electricity MWh
Total Fuel 41,627,520 Liters

4. Samui LCMT Phase 2 completed in 2012

5. LCMT Measures for SAMUI Island 9 BASKETS of LCMT Measures

6. Low-Carbon Measures of Samui Low Carbon Town
Categories
Measures
1. Town Structure Planning
Visualization and Adaptation of Green Areas
Visualization and Adaptation of Non Green Areas : Sustainable Town Planning
Visualization and Adaptation of Walkable Areas
2. Transportation Planning
Upgrading public transportation
Diffusion of low carbon vehicles and developing charging stations
Developing the space for bicycle and pedestrian
Traffic congestion reduction by road improvement
Providing appropriate sightseeing information system
Mobility Management
3. Area Energy Planning
Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCP)
4. Area Energy Management
Smart Grid
Micro Grid
5. Renewable Energy
Solar Energy
Wind Energy
Small hydro power plant
Categories
Measures
6. Untapped Energy Use Planning
Use of waste heat from incinerator to generate electricity
Use of biogas from kitchen waste to generate electricity
7. Low Carbon Building
Low Carbon Building Guideline
Low Carbon Measures for building
8. Eco-life style
Eco-Logo
Low Carbon Center
Eco-Point Programme
Encouraging “3R x 2” Principle
Eco-Activities for all stakeholders
Eco-Events
9. Environmental Planning
Water Supply Management
Waste Water Treatment Management
Solid Waste Water Management

7. Before and After the LCMT Project Implementation
Slight improvement
Slight improvement
Before
After

8. Feedback for LCT-I System
Advantages:
help improve the town performance to reach targets, but need data collection system on parameters to calculate such related indicators
able to track situation via continuously monitoring the determined indicators
raise the public and private sector awareness to involve in developing more low carbon projects
stimulate local people and tourists to participate the low carbon features and attend more and more to support the low carbon town activities
Disadvantages:
costly to develop indicators where the database is not supported
require coordination from relevant stakeholders to assemble indicators and make publicly available information

9. Feedback for LCT-I System
What are the difficulties in the evaluation process? How do you think the LCT-I System can be improved?
unclear definitions and questions to those answers to be evaluated
different town characteristics may not require same questions to be evaluated
bias evaluation without evidence or proof
How are you going to utilize the evaluation results? Any expectations for the LCMT secretariat to further develop the LCT-I System?
periodically assess LCT-I and see how the score in each category be improved
LCT-I shall be reviewed from time to time to be improved from the feed-back from the economies

10. แนวทางการพัฒนาสมุยสู่เมืองคาร์บอนต่ำ
Future Plan of Samui Low Carbon Town
แนวทางการพัฒนาสมุยสู่เมืองคาร์บอนต่ำ
SAMUI
towards LCT
Supported by APEC 1
Feasibility Study
Action Plan
(A,B,C) 2
DEDE
Implementation 4
Completed in Nov 2012
Completed in Mar 2015
Public Private
Partnership (PPP)
Recommended :
9 Categories of LC measures
Private
Investment 3
Detail Study &
Demonstration
3.1 Eco Point Program
3.2 SMART Grid and EV
APEC
(Completed in Nov. 2014)
(On-going 2016)
DEDE
3.3 LCMT Capacity Building
3.4 Demonstration Projects : GREEN Room,
SMART Grid, EV Infrastructure, LC Buildings etc.
(Completed in 2014)
(Completed in Mar. 2015)
3.5 Pilot EE&RE Station and Rollout GREEN Room,
3.6 Eco Point Program
PEO
(Start in Feb. 2016)

11. Thank You for your attention