Background
The US government is supporting its partners in Southeast Asia to enable and attract the infrastructure investments needed to meet their ambitious net-zero goals through a variety of mechanisms and programs. These include USAID’s Corporate Clean Energy Alliance (CCEA), US Department of State’s Clean Energy Demand Initiative (CEDI), and USAID’s Southeast Asia’s Smart Power Program (SPP). The USG’s partnerships support solutions that expand access to renewable energy, improve energy efficiency, and demonstrate and deploy transformation enabling technologies. Together, they aim to identify, inform, and implement clean energy solutions.
Furthermore, USAID is committed to supporting Southeast Asia’s just and inclusive clean energy transition. USAID programs such as Enhancing Equality in Energy for Southeast Asia (E4SEA), and the Mekong Sustainable Manufacturing Alliance (MSMA), promote gender equality in the clean energy workforce, and work closely with public and private sector project partners.
This Deep Dive Workshop will be divided into two 90-minute sections: The first will concentrate on US government/private sector partnerships and the collective effort to combat climate change through clean energy finance/development initiatives. The second 90-minutes will build on this discussion, focusing on the importance of promoting gender inclusiveness in the clean energy workforce, and the private-sector adoption of ESG standards during Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition.
Objectives
This Deep Dive Workshop will highlight USG initiatives that help private sector champions meet shared climate and clean energy targets in Southeast Asia. The discussion will highlight policy recommendations, investment tools, financing mechanisms, and support programs the private sector and USG can offer to governments, developers and civil society to support clean energy and climate change initiatives in Southeast Asia. The session will also showcase how business leaders are strengthening ESG standards.
AGENDA
9:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Private Sector Keynote Address
Eva Kelly Oberender, CEO, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)
9:15 - 9:30 a.m.
USG Private Sector Engagement Overview
Scott C. Bartos, USAID/RDMA
Derina Man, US Department of Energy, NREL
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Private Sector Panel Discussion
Moderator: Madura Watanagase, USAID Southeast Asia’s Smart Power Program
Panelists:
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Kristine Margallo, Assistant Vice President for Business Development, Aboitiz Power
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Tom Owen, Project Development Officer, UGEP
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Eva Kelly Oberender, CEO, REEEP
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Takuya (Tak) Kasai, Managing Partner, Head of APAC, Enel X Advisory Services Japan
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Alex Perera, Deputy Director, Energy, World Resources Institute
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Q&A
Moderator: Madura Watanagase, USAID Southeast Asia’s Smart Power Program
10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:15 a.m.
Scene Setter
Moderator - Vinod Shrivastava, Lead Advisor, USAID Enhancing Equality in Energy for Southeast Asia (E4SEA) Activity and Director, CORE International, Inc.
11:15 - 11:25 a.m.
Private Sector Role in Developing Inclusive Energy Sector Workforce of the Future
Agnes De Jesus, Chief Sustainability Officer, First Philippines Holdings Corporation/First Gen
11:25 - 11:35 a.m.
Role of the Academic Sector and STEM Education in Inclusive Energy Sector Transition
Dr. Maria Teresa Fajardo, Director, Extension & Community Relations Division, USTP University of Southern Philippines
11:35 - 11:45 a.m.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Women in Power System Transformation: Advancing Gender Equality in a Changing Power Sector
Sadie Cox, Senior International Partnerships Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Inclusive Transition in Corporate Governance
Dr. Dynah Avigail Basuil, Executive Director, Ramon V. Del Rosario Sr. Center for Corporate Responsibility, Asian Institute of Management, Manila, the Philippines
12:00 - 12:25 p.m.
Q&A
Moderator - Vinod Shrivastava, Lead Advisor, USAID Enhancing Equality in Energy for Southeast Asia (E4SEA) Activity and Director, CORE International, Inc.
12:25 - 12:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Moderator - Vinod Shrivastava, Enhancing Equality in Energy for Southeast Asia
SPEAKERS
Scott Bartos
Regional Energy Advisor, U.S. Agency For International Development (USAID)
Madura Watanagase
Manager, Competitive Procurement, USAID SPP
Eva Kelly Oberender
CEO, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
Derina Man
Project Lead, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Vinod Shrivastava
Founder and Managing Director, CORE International, Inc.
Dynah Basuil
Professor and Executive Director,
Asian Institute of Management Ramon V. Del Rosario Sr. Center for Corporate Responsibility
Agnes de Jesus
Chief Sustainability Officer, First Philippine Holdings Corporation
Maria Fajardo
Director, Extension & Community Relations Division & GAD Focal Person, University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines
Takuya Kasai
Managing Partner, Head of APAC, Enel X Advisory Services
Sadie Cox
Senior Analyst, Markets & Policy Group of the Strategic Energy Analysis Center, NREL
Alex Perera
Deputy Director, World Resource Institute
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About Organizer
USAID's mission is to end poverty and advance human prosperity and security. Our climate work safeguards this mission and puts countries on a path to pursue clean energy growth and resilient, low-carbon development. USAID shares world-class climate knowledge, data, and tools with the aim to ensure that countries can predict, prepare for and adapt to change.