Policy recommendations and stakeholder identification in supporting a new category of biomass CHP project in Thailand through CDM

Abstract

This paper suggests a new category of CDM projects to be developed, which includes several different types of energy supply and demand activities. The CDM project exemplified here has the capacity to assist in a transformation of the energy supply system in Asia, considering Thailand in this paper. The new category of CDM projects is not yet implemented, but here suggested on the basis of thorough analysis of a community of SME's located in an Industrial Park in Thailand. The paper shortly presents a small scale biomass Combined Heat and Power plant (CHP) with supply of district heating, and outline the benefits obtained in this specific community applying the new energy supply system. To support the implementation of such transformative energy technologies and systems, and thus to disseminate the project idea in Thailand, the paper suggests a whole range of policy recommendations, which could support such type of energy system development within the framework of CDM. A stakeholder identification is also carried out, with the purpose of identifying CDM project ‘carriers’ for supporting the implementation of this type of CDM projects in Thailand. The specific case addressed in this paper illustrates among others that heat demand within Thai SME's could be reduced by 36 %, and solely be based on biomass waste from the community. Also, important stakeholders to support such energy system development in Thailand are identified.