📋 Tender Overview
Thematic Priority
Safeguarding the Environment
LocationThe Americas
Project ManagerMarco MATTEINI
Donor
Regular Programme Of Technical Cooperation
Fund
Regular Programme of Technical Cooperati
Gender Marker1 (Limited expected contribution to GE)
The project "Scaling up energy districts in Latin America and Caribbean region (ED3 LAC)" has two main objectives: 1. Provide continuity to the promotion strategy for energy districts in Colombia and consolidate/complete the market transformation work that is currently being implemented by UNIDO in close collaboration with the Colombian government (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADS) and Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM)) within project 190085 funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO. 2. Scaling up energy districts in the Latin America and Caribbean region as key innovative climate solution for energy transformation and decarbonization programmes of countries in the region, building on the unique experience, expertise, networks and knowledge assets accrued by UNIDO and its Colombian counterparts and partners. Energy districts represent critically needed energy infrastructures for the energy efficient and decarbonisation development paths of cities and industries.Energy districts represent also one of the most successful examples of urban-industrial symbiosis.Energy districts generate multiple benefits, from climate to resources, to improved quality of health and job creation, contributing to several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDG7, SDG9, SDG11 and SDG 13. The ongoing UNIDO Energy District project 190085 has estimated that the energy districts market (primarily district cooling) in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region could be worth up to 1.37 billion USD of investments till 2040, mostly coming from private sector; with an additional 1 billion USD of investments in renewable energy (RE) technologies if RE integration in energy districts should become mandatory whenever RE resources are available. Potential cumulative CO2 emission reductions till 2040 for the LAC region would be up to 12.2 million tons CO2 without RE and up to 27.5 million ton CO2 with RE integration. The Preparatory Assistance/Phase of the ED3 LAC project aims to:1. Enable participation to and organization of international workshops and events within the LAC region where UNIDO together with representatives of Colombian government and energy district market players would present the Colombian experience with energy districts and the potential contribution of energy districts to the transformation of the regional energy market for cooling and heating services. 2. Produce a Diagnostic Baseline Report on energy policies, market potential and barriers for energy districts in at least 5 LAC countries, with identification of opportunities for the promotion of energy districts. 3. Develop a UNIDO’s theory of change and design an intervention logic for a Count
