Call for Proposals: Modelling Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform in Indonesia
The Global Subsidies Initiative is undertaking a project with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to identify and analyse fossil-fuel subsidies in three ADB-member countries: India, Indonesia and Thailand.
GSI is working with local research partners in each country to develop the following:
1. Inventory of fossil-fuel subsidies, including:
a. Subsidies for the consumption of fossil fuels and electricity
b. Subsidies for the production of one fossil fuel: oil, natural gas or coal
2. Analysis of the impacts of fossil-fuel subsidy reform, including modeling:
a. Social and economic impacts
b. Energy system impacts
c. Macro-economic impacts
3. Assessment of social safety nets that can be used in each country to minimize the negative impacts of reform.
Proposals which also include modeling of macro-economic impacts – work package 2c – will be favourably evaluated.
The work will have a quantitative nature and will require the use of a suitable model of Indonesia’s energy system. The deadline for the completion of the work package is 1 November 2013, therefore the consultant is expected to be an experienced user of the model they propose and to have the relevant data for modeling the Indonesian energy system. The assignment is most likely to suit a team working within an institute.
Similar work is being undertaken for the project in India and in Thailand, in these cases using the MARKAL model. There is the opportunity for the exchange of ideas and findings between the research teams in the three countries, across all work packages.
The chosen consultant is expected to be available for a mid-project workshop in the second half of August, likely to be held in Jakarta.
For more information, download the full call for proposals above.