81320724-Technical Assistance and Training for Demand Side Energy Consuming Enterprises and Energy Auditing Professionals

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The Promotion of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Programme (PREEEP) through its Skills and Market development component aims to strengthen state and private actors in their role as drivers of Market Development for Renewable Energy (RE)and Energy Efficiency (EE) in Uganda. The contractor is required to support players such as Energy Auditing Professionals, demand side energy consuming enterprises and energy managers. The support shall be in the form of training and technical assistance for access to finance as well as standardization for improving the quality of work. Through this tender, blended training shall be extended to demand side energy consuming enterprises to enable adopt energy management practices while ensuring business development growth. Operators and owners of SMEs will be trained on energy management practices and business development related aspects. The trainings are to be tailored from a baseline and needs assessment focusing on training needs and potential energy management practices that can be adopted in an SME cluster approach. Follow on support includes technical assistance inform energy audits to enable selected SMEs (through a criterion developed by GIZ PREEEP) access existing financing in the sector including PREEEP catalytic partial grant supporting implementation RE/EE measures. Further training shall be extended to energy managers from industry regarding Energy Management systems (EnMs) with reference to the ISO 50001 standard. The energy managers will be able to learn approaches for adopting EnMs to build capacity towards compliance towards any future regulatory requirements. To improve the standardization of energy audits, promote quality of audit reports in the sector, practical training shall be extended to energy auditing professionals to skill them towards developing investment grade energy audit reports. Technical assistance shall be provided in form of the development of a customized reporting framework that includes template(s) / structures and data analysis tool(s) to improve reporting and be able to develop comprehensive reports that can be used by demand side energy-consuming enterprises to seek for financing as well meet any regulatory requirements. Based on this background, GIZ PREEEP would therefore like to hire the services of a contractor to implement the different market development interventions and work packages. The contract shall coordinate with national experts to consolidate knowledge transfer and provide effectiveness of the project targeted objectives

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