Northeast Asia Power System Interconnection ADB assistance Shannon Cowlin Principal Energy Specialist Sustainable Infrastructure Division East Asia Department ADB NEARPIC Meeting 10 December 2020
Northeast Asia Power System Interconnection ADB assistance
Shannon CowlinPrincipal Energy SpecialistSustainable Infrastructure Division East Asia DepartmentADB
NEARPIC Meeting10 December 2020
Asian Development Bank: Who We Are
▪ Founded in 1966
▪ A multilateral development bank
▪ Headquartered in Manila, Philippines
▪ 40 field offices
▪ ~3,500 employees, 64 nationalities
Our Mission: to help our developing
member countries reduce poverty and
improve quality of life
• ADB Technical Assistance Project for Mongolia
• $1.75 Million, approved 2015
• Financed by People’s Republic of China Regional Cooperation and Poverty Reduction Fund, the Republic of
Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund, and the Climate Change Fund (multi-donor)
• Develop power system scenarios 2020-2036 considering:
• Electricity markets in Northeast Asia
• Wind and solar potential in Mongolia
• Transmission interconnection development across the region
• Compare least cost expansion under isolated and interconnected scenarios
• Cost
• Emissions
Northeast Asia Power System Interconnection
Key Analysis under NAPSI TA
Scenario 3: 100 GW of renewable energy in Mongolia
NAPSI Step 1
Outcomes from NAPSI TA
Shared understanding of
NAPSI and its benefits
• Regional stakeholder
involvement
(SGC, Rosseti, and KEPCO)
• Conducted in coordination with
NEARPIC
• Presidents of PRC, Russian
Federation, Republic of Korea,
and Mongolia have all urged for
integrated grid development
Looking Ahead: Three Priority Areas
• Coordination, planning, administration
• To guide the NAPSI process forward
• Practical, lean, interim
• Implemented by Member States with the help of UN ESCAP
• South Gobi renewable energy base
• Institutional and Regulatory prerequisites of Gobi RE base for export
• Commercial agreements
• South Gobi—China interconnection
• Alignment with development of China—ROK interconnector
• Process towards a permanent NAPSI Authority
• Governments mobilized
• Feasibility study of a corporatized NAPSI Authority as a Joint Venture of the Member States
Interim
secretariat
Advancing
investments
Preparing for
multilateral
framework
Scope Considered for Future NAPSI TA
Wind and Solar in
South Gobi
• Optimize wind/solar
ratio
• Establish suitable
capacities, location
and development
stages
• Preliminary design
of HV collection
network
Mongolia-China
Interconnection
• Evaluate AC, DC,
and voltage options
• Design and routing
Business Case
• Assess landed
power costs in
IMAR, East China,
and Korea
• Principles of cost
recovery and tariffs
for generation and
transmission
Evaluating
Alternatives
• Assess landing
options
• Consider HV line to
Siberia for imports
of hydropower to
firm variable RE
ADB TA Process and Status
TA Concept Approval*
• Rationale
• Value
• Proposed scope
• Mongolian Ministry of Energy (MOE) as key implementing partner
TA Due Diligence
• Refine scope with MOE
• Regional stakeholder discussions (led by MOE)
• Draft TA Report and consultant TOR
Seek Fund
Allocation
• Application
• Consultation with relevant governments
• Fund commitment
TA Report Approval
• Formal peer review
• ADB management approval
• Target approvalAug 2021
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PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA POVERTY REDUCTION AND REGIONAL
COOPERATION FUND
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