IMPLEMENTING ARRANGEMENTS

SOME jointly with the ASEAN Secretariat, through the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) shall coordinate, manage and monitor the implementation of the Plan of Action. In particular, ACE shall provide technical coordination, as well as facilitate the task of the implementing organisations such as in the planning and fund sourcing, among others. The ASEAN Secretariat shall be responsible for programme coordination and other requirements with the other ASEAN coordinating bodies and the ASEAN dialogue partners. The implementing organizations or the energy subsector organisations are:

1. HAPUA – Heads of Power Utilities/Authorities;
2. ASCOPE – ASEAN Council on Petroleum;
3. AFOC – ASEAN Forum on Coal;
4. EE&C-SSN – Energy Efficiency and Conservation Subsector Network
5. NRSE-SSN – New and Renewable Sources of Energy Sub-Sector Network; and
6. ACE - ASEAN Centre for Energy
7. AEBF - ASEAN Energy Business Forum

The relationship of the various ASEAN organisations is depicted in Annex 2.

As regards the implementation of the ASEAN Power Grid and the Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline, the Special Meeting of SOME on November 26, 1998 agreed to establish a mechanism for dialogue, consultation and exchange of information between ASCOPE and HAPUA for the development of integrated ASEAN Energy Grid. In this context, the Meeting tasked HAPUA and ASCOPE to submit the proposed modality for consideration in the SOME/17th AMEM. Subsequently, this issue was discussed during the Planning Workshop on the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation 1999-2004 on April 19-20, 1999. While a proposed modality of actions has been proposed by ASCOPE to HAPUA, the latter postponed further discussions on the issue since the member of HAPUA have not yet given their comments on the said modality. ASCOPE and HAPUA agreed to continue consultations to pursue the issue.