Join our market engagement event to find out how you can apply for grant funding for the Clean Energy (CE) Call for Proposals, under the Amazon Regional Fund within the UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions) programme. Organisations should bring all their enquiries to this event for discussion.
Who is this event for?
We invite all organisations with relevant experience in delivering technical assistance and capacity-building projects in renewable energy generation and improving energy access and efficiency to register. This could be think-tanks, consultancies, academic institutions, community organisations, NGOs, professional associations, or any similar organisations that have the knowledge, skills and experience to deliver an eligible project.
Proposals from private sector entities are welcome, however government agencies and government departments are not eligible to receive UK PACT funding.
What are we looking for?
The main purpose is to support initiatives that effectively address the challenges identified below, thereby facilitating progress towards a sustainable energy transition, driven by increased secure access to clean energy. Successful proposals will receive funding to develop innovative solutions that promote the integration of renewables in the amazon region that consider energy access goals, gender-sensitive, socially inclusive, culturally appropriate approaches and energy for productive and care-based value chains. Therefore, priority will be given to initiatives fostering local renewable energy generation, improving energy access and efficiency, and advancing equity and inclusion, particularly for women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, and other underserved groups. Strengthening the region’s capacity for low-carbon energy solutions is essential to achieving climate targets, reducing dependence on fossil fuels, and ensuring resilient, inclusive, and environmentally sustainable development in the Amazon.
Following bespoke engagement with government counterparts, non-government organisations (NGOs), civil society, and the private sector it is expected that projects under UK PACT contribute to expand and secure clean energy access in three areas of intervention:
- Facilitate and streamline the implementation of clean energy access projects in the Peruvian amazon region: Identify energy access project portfolios in entities like MINEM and/or regional governments, as well as public companies responsible for energy supply in the Peruvian Amazon, needing support, such as demand studies, pre-investment assessments, long-term energy planning, regulatory framework, market analysis, or investor engagement. By integrating renewable energy and storage, these projects aim to provide reliable and uninterrupted power supply for off-grid communities, meeting both domestic and social needs.
- Structure a delivery model for large scale clean energy private investments in the Peruvian amazon region: Technical Assistance to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Department of Energy (DOE) for the validation and peer review of the OSW Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) tool, and building government capacities: Structuring a delivery model that incorporates vehicles like Public-Private Partnerships, public policy instruments, such as tailored contracts, and relies on blended finance, to attract private sector and facilitate renewable energy projects in populated areas (distributed generation and/or mini grids - that operate independently of the main transmission grid) with established economic activity in the Peruvian Amazon. With a special focus on boosting existing bioeconomy initiatives, this supports energy integration into productive and agri productive value chains, driving regional economic growth.
- Promote the adoption of electro-mobility in Bolivia through locally developed technological solutions: Support the second phase of lithium battery production by the Bolivian state-owned lithium company (YLB), supporting increased production capacity by local electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer and the consolidation of ENDE’s EVs charging network pilot project.
