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«“√ “√ √“™∫— ≥±‘ µ¬ ∂“π ªï ∑’Ë Û ©∫— ∫∑’Ë Û °.§.-°.¬. ÚıÙ¯ 723 Chavalit Pichalai the investment promotion direction to shift high-energy intensive to low- energy intensive manufacturing, pay- ing greater importance to the eco- nomic value. Major measures include tax incentive to boost energy effi- ciency improvement in factories and goods transportation and tax exemp- tion for auditable energy saving for industrial and commercial firms. Besides, implementation of the fol- lowing will be speeded up--energy efficiency labeling for electrical appliances and cars, establishment of energy conservation certification for factories, and promotion of co-generation and district cooling/ heating systems. Mandatory preliminary energy audits, development of the energy conservation target and plan of each designated factory/building, and energy conservation investment ac- cording to the plan are still going on under the Energy Efficiency Im- provement Program of the national Energy Conservation Plan, with fi- nancial assistance from the ENCON Fund. To stimulate serious energy efficiency implementation in de- signated facilities, review is being carried out on the introduction of punitive measures, that is, the sur- charge rates for designated facilities, pursuant to Article 43 of the Energy Conservation PromotionAct (1992), for violation or failure to comply with relevant laws and regulations on energy efficiency in designated facilities. b) Strategic Plan for New & Re- newable Energy Development The Thai government fully re- cognizes the importance of renew- able energy with a view to achieving sustainable development, diversifica- tion of energy supply, and protection of the environment. However, from the projects on renewable energy applications funded by the government, it has shown that capital cost is the most important factor affecting competi- tiveness and hence the viability of renewable energy technologies. Our challenge is to lower the cost while increasing efficiency of these tech- nologies. This is to create sufficient market demand, which will in turn create the “economy of scale” that will further pull the prices down. Therefore, the government has set the national goal to increase the share of renewable energy in the total energy mix from 0.5% in 2002 to 8% by the year 2011. Several sup- portive measures have been devised to establish market-driven mecha- nisms. TE = Traditional Energy NRE = New & Renewable Energy Commercial TE 16.5 % NRE 0.5 % 2002 TE 11% N R E Commercial Energy 81% NRE 8% 2011 Some major measures are : 1) To promote the use of bio- fuels via provision of tax incentive and eventually introduction of mandatory measures; 2) To encourage renewable en- ergy utilization for power generation via the regulations for power pur- chase from Small Power Producers (SPPs) using renewable energy as Share of Thailandûs Final Fuel Mix in 2002 and Target in 2011 fuel in accordance with the policy on Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) 1 and via fiscal and financial incentives, for example, tax credit and subsidies, including supportive measures on externality (social and environmental) costs and on carbon tax, including improvement of the power purchase regulations; 1 The regulatory requirement for new power plants that 5% of their energy generation must be generated by renewable energy.