Ethiopia Mission (Geothermal Power Generation WG) November 2nd-6th,2015 Ethiopia is located in the great lift valley and have good geothermal power generation resources as well as water resources. Recently geothermal is noticed as the efficient renewable energy resources by their own in the high demand of electric power of Africa Following up the last November’s workshop, Geothermal Generation Power WG dispatched a mission and held work shop. They proposed not only Japanese technologies but also scheme and practical accomplishment of Japan conducted for geothermal development. Mr. Yokota, Minister Counselor of Japanese Embassy of Ethiopia, made a speech and Director General of Geothermal Survey of Ethiopia showed their enthusiasm of geothermal development.

Date:4th November, 2015 Venue :Jupiter Hotel in Addis Ababa

Member:Officer of Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Head of Geothermal power generation WG(FUJI Electric), Nippon Koei, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, secretariat of JASE-W, and Mitsubishi cooperation, Itochu, Nippon Koei from local offices.

Indochina SWG, Energy Saving Solutions WG dispatched the mission to the Ho Chi Minh, making success of ENERTECH in July and invited by the Department of Construction, Ho Chi Minh city. They proposed the energy saving solutions for the building which were appreciated by the audience. They also visited the developer in Binh Duong state and an ESCO company.

Date:22nd-28th October,2015 Visited :The Department of Construction and the Department of Industry and Trade(DOIT), Ho Chi Minh, Industry Park of Binh Duong

Member:Leader of Indochina SWG(Asahi Glass), and secretariat of JASE-W

Public-Private Cooperation WG dispatched the mission to South Pacific Islands such as Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, to discuss fund scheme of development of geothermal power generation in August. And this October they dispatched a second mission visiting another two Islands States, Papua New Guinea and Solomon islands, to go into talks of the projects with their governments. Also they visited sites, Thalasia, Rabaul, Savo Islands etc. with accompanying those governments’ officers.

Date:22nd-28th October,2015 Visited :The Department of Construction and the Department of Industry and Trade(DOIT), Ho Chi Minh, Industry Park of Binh Duong

Member:Leader of Indochina SWG(Asahi Glass), and secretariat of JASE-W

The energy solutions for commercial sector SWG of Energy Solutions WG dispatched the mission to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and held a business matching seminar on the energy saving buildings and facilities. The seminar was co-hosted by JASE-W, ACEAN Center for Energy(ACE) and the Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water(KeTTHA). At the seminar, Malaysian current energy saving status and JASE-W's members' energy saving technologies and products were presented by each, and after the seminar, the business matching program was held. 
On next days, the delegation visited the government entities and office buildings and it was very helpful for network-making

Date:22nd-28th October,2015 Visited :The Department of Construction and the Department of Industry and Trade(DOIT), Ho Chi Minh, Industry Park of Binh Duong

Member:Leader of Indochina SWG(Asahi Glass), and secretariat of JASE-W

In order to explain and exchange of views about the concept of geothermal fund that will make feasible the geothermal energy in the Pacific region, Geothermal Power Generation WG and Public-Private Cooperation WG sent a mission to Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu. Government officials of each country have agreed to cooperate for the founding of this concept.

Date:16th－26th Augusut,2015

Visited :（Fiji) Ministry of Land & Mineral Resources, Secretariat of the Pacific Community(SPC), (Tonga) Ministry of Lands, Environment, Climate Change & Natural Resources , (Samoa) Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment , (Vanuatu) Department of Geology, Mines, & Water Resources

Participants:Sumitomo Corporation (Head of Public-Private Cooperation WG), Fuji Electric (Head of Geothermal Power Generation WG), Secretariat of JASE-W

Latin America SWG of Energy Saving Solutions WG dispatched the mission, and investigated the trend of energy saving in Brazil and they made the presentation of their own energy saving technologies and products in the business matching seminar of Congresso Brasileiro de Efeciencia Energetica e Expoeficiencia(COBEE).
Although recent resection of Brazil, they are interested in energy saving and getting feature on investments in energy saving, because of the shortage of electricity.
In the business matching session with National Confederation of Industry (CNI), a lot of companies participated and the delegation had inquiries of their energy saving products, such as solar power, methane fermentation, turbine, heat pump, boiler, energy saving glass and so on.

Date:16th－26th Augusut,2015 Visited :JICA Sao Paolo , Japan Brazil Chamber of Commerce & Industry, JETRO Sao Paolo, Brazilian ESCO association(ABESCO), COBEE, Co-hosted business matching seminar with CNI、and Japan-Brail Economic corporation committee at Porto Alegre.

Participants:Mayekawa MFG(leader of Latin America SWG) , Asahi glass, Hitachi Zosen, Kawasaki heavy Industry, Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Miura co., and secretariat of JASE-W

Indochina SWG of Energy Solution WG participated in Enertec Expo2015 held in Ho Chi Minh City, from 22nd. – 25th, July. JASE-world displayed panels and demonstration materials at the booth, and in the seminar they made presentation of members’ own technologies and products, appealing the synergy effect by combining members’ technologies for energy efficiency. More than one hundred fifty audiences were attended, it was a great success. The seminar have been released by media such as Vietnam TV, Ho Chi Minh TV and so on. At the booth some executive officers of the Minister of Industry and Trade (MOIT) and Ho Chi Minh City Government visited, and showed their interests to the products. . JASE-World activities have been much impressed of achieving the project of reconstruction of city hall of People's Committee in HO Chi Minh City.

Date:19 - 25th July, 2015

Visited :ECCJ in Ho Chi Minh, VietEsco, MOIT, Binh Durong Industrial Park, JETRO HCMC, JICA HCMC

Participate: Asahi Glass, Nikken Sekkei, Daikin, LIXIL、Tokyo Electron Device, Toshiba Righting and Technologies, Secretariat

In order to seek the possibility of project realization of Super ESCO (Scheme for the utilization of fuel saved by replacing old CHP plant with state of the art high efficiency one), Russia SWG of Energy Saving Solution WG and Public-Private WG sent a mission to Moscow to see and discuss with Russian gas giant GAZPROM that expressed strong interest in Super ESCO in the previous meeting last Nevember. On the way to Moscow the mission visited Khabarovsk state government to ask for the support to the project, and visited the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation on the same day of the GAZPROM meeting as well.

Date:16th - 17th July, 2015

Visited and interviewed:Khabarovsk State Government, Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, GAZPROM

Participates: Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industries, Sumitomo Corporation (Head of Public-Private Cooperation WG) , Toyo Enginiaring Corporation (Leader of Russia SWG of Energy Saving Solution WG), Mitsubisi Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Secretariat

Public Private Partnership WG have participated in the seminar, titled “Role of Innovative Technologies and Solutions to Develop Resilient Smart Communities”, hosted by Asia Development Bank (ADB) at Manila, Philippines. ADB invited governmental officers, companies and think tankers from Asian counties and conveyed the session and presented their funding program through roundtable discussions and seminars. The purpose of this mission is the research of finance program of ADB and hearing and exchanging information regarding Green Climate Fund (GCF) since ADB is an implementing agency for them in Asia. More than 130 peoples participated not only from Japan, but also from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and western countries in the forum JASE-W had a meeting with a specialist of ADB and discussed the possibility of utilizing the fund of GCF regarding geothermal power development of the Pacific Islands countries.

Partnership Forum: Innovation for Resilient and Smart Communities

Date:18th - 21st May , 2015

Venue: Asia Developping Bank Conference Room Interviewed:Specialists at South Asia dept., Pacific Dept. and Regional and Sustainable Development Dept. in Asia Development Bank Member: Head of Public private cooperation WG, Secretariat

Russia SWG of Energy Saving Solution WG and Public-Private Cooperation WG dispatched a mission to Vladivostok in order to attend the meeting of Joint Committee of Japan-Russia Cooperation in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. From Japan side, they made presentations of Japanese energy saving policy and technologies, on-going feasibility studies. Head of Public-Private Cooperation WG presented the Super ESCO scheme which suggested replacing Russian old power generation facilities to Japanese high efficient ones, and the local government and the utility company had professed an interest in the scheme and agreed to discuss it further. The Russian version of “Japanese Smart Energy Products & Technologies” Pamphlet was distributed to the Russian attendees. The 4th Joint Committee of Japan-Russia Cooperation in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Date: 23th April , 2015

Venue: Far Eastern State University (Vladivostok, Russia)

Attendees:

(Russia) Minister of Energy, Government of Maritime Province of Siberia and Sakha, Rao East, Electric Power Company of Vladivostok, Skolkovo Foundation, Far Eastern State University

(Japan) Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industries, Sumitomo Corporation (Head of Public-Private Cooperation WG) , Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Hitach, Fuji Electric