Case study
Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, Demand-Side Management Unit
Independent monitoring and evaluation for demand-side management programs
For this program, assisted by the World Bank/Global Environmental Facility (GEF), PA provided independent advisory services for the evaluation of Thailand’s demand-side management (DSM) programs.
The reviews were for Thailand’s DSM Subcommittee, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), the Demand-Side Management Office (DSMO, an executing agency for DSM programs in Thailand) and the World Bank. The majority of the energy savings achieved from these DSM programs were from Thailand’s Thin Tube (fluorescent) programs. Our work included reviews and assessments of:
- DSMO efforts on tracking and monitoring program performance
- planned DSM program evaluation activities
- greenhouse gas emission reduction estimates
- the ability to apply DSM evaluation data in EGAT’s resource planning process
- DSM database development
- the national load research program
- the implementation strategies for each DSM program
- how well the goals and objectives of the GEF Project were being achieved.
We also recommended to EGAT approaches for the gathering, analysis, program marketing and application of market research data to support design and launching of consumer conservation programs (eg, labeling and rebate programs). This included working with EGAT staff to increase their understanding of different program intervention strategies, such as near-term energy savings versus longer-term market transformation initiatives.
An overarching theme in provision of these independent advisory services to EGAT was the ability of conservation and load management programs to be sustainable in Thailand beyond the life of the project. Recognizing various uncertainties in Thailand’s power industry and markets, PA advised EGAT (and the World Bank) that four dimensions could affect the potential for sustaining the positive benefits identified in Thailand’s DSM program experience thus far:
- political acceptance of the identified benefits
- organizational and financial commitments
- specific DSM and energy efficiency programs promising future benefits
- supporting analysis essential to maintaining a feedback loop between promise and performance.
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