2015 ESCI Best Practices Awards Competition
About the Awards
Launched in 2010, the Energy Smart Community Initiative (ESCI) has contributed greatly to the advancement of green growth, sustainable development, long-term job creation and APEC’s goal of energy intensity reduction of at least 45 percent by 2035 with 2005 as the reference. As the information hub of ESCI network, the Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) has helped disseminate and share best practices of ESCI’s areas of focus in a systematic manner.
Following the success of 2013 Annual ESCI Best Practices Awards Program, the ESCI-KSP management team, with the support from APEC member economies, will host the 2015 Annual ESCI Best Practices Awards Program, in order to continue the momentum of regional efforts in developing new methods, technologies and applications, and to offers an opportunity to encourage best practices, facilitate knowledge-sharing and give public recognition to accomplishments in energy smart related cases within the APEC region. The ESCI management team has broken down the criteria adopted for former ESCI Best Practices Awards Program to particularly highlight merits in policy-making, strategy formation and implementation processes. Also, to encourage constant updates on the progress of various projects on the ESCI-KSP website, those which participated in former ESCI Best Practices Awards Program are welcome to take part in this year’s program with renewed contents on the website.
Eligibility
The Awards will be open to both the public and private sectors who have submitted cases on the ESCI-KSP website (http://esci-ksp.org/). Below are two kinds of cases that are eligible for the program:
New cases (submitted after 14 July 2013) which are being proposed, current undertaken or accomplished.
Previously-submitted cases (submitted before 14 July 2013) which are renewed with new scope of projects, progress, achievement, and etc. after 14 July 2013. All the above cases must be submitted electronically via ESCI-KSP by 31 July 2015.
The Awards will be made in four main pillars—Smart Transport, Smart Buildings, Smart Grids, Smart Jobs and Consumers, and one cross-cutting examples of Low Carbon Model Towns of ESCI. Judging will consider the cases’ articulation of and compatibility with its goals, its implementation and outcomes. The criteria are:
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