Competition Guidelines

Eligibility

Any persons or company resident or actively operating and/or registered in any ASEAN country may participate in the Asia Forum for Clean Energy Financing. While there is no restriction on the size of the company / sponsor the award is designed to reflect excellence in new ventures.

Focus of Business that will be considered

The business must promote clean energy technologies, products or services that would in general include:

- Biomass - Tidal / Ocean
- Biogas - Energy efficiency
- Solar - Distributed generation
- Wind - Waste-to-energy
- Geothermal - Emission reduction
- Hydropower - Energy storage

Competition Categories

Only business opportunities that require total (initial) capital in excess of US$1 million will be considered.

Acceptable Business Plans

Plans eligible for the Forum, may include, but are not limited to:

  • New venture/new business
  • Merger or acquisitions, including leveraged buyouts, which will lead to a turnaround, roll-up, or some other significant change that adds value to the current business
  • Joint venture, alliance or network-based business (e.g., create new entity from current enterprises)

Proprietary Information and Confidentiality

The organizers respect the confidentiality of all participants' business concepts and plans. Business concepts, overviews and plans will not be copied for any purposes other than use in this Forum. The judges also recognize the sensitivity of the materials being presented and undertake that they are bound by the same considerations of confidentiality.

Teams may choose to include the following optional disclaimer on the cover sheet of their submissions, recognizing that it is not a legally binding agreement:

"This business plan is confidential and is presented solely for the purpose of evaluation in the Asia Forum for Clean Energy Financing. This plan may not be reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part. By accepting a copy of this plan, the recipient agrees not to reproduce or disclose the contents of this plan to third parties without the prior written consent of its authors."

Prospective participants in the Forum may ask that confidentiality agreements be secured from mentors, organizers and/or judges. While the organizers of the Forum appreciate the concerns behind these requests, as a matter of convention and practicality, confidentiality agreements are not signed as part of the Asia Forum for Clean Energy Financing.

If participants do not want certain firms or individuals to judge their business plan because the team has invested in potential competitors, this should be noted in the application.

Submission of applications and supporting material

All submissions are to be in electronic format. Consideration should be given to the size of individual files to ensure ease of transmission. To increase information security and authenticity, files should be submitted in PDF format and financial models in Excel format.

The submission of the Application to Participate together with the Executive Summary must be made by Monday 22nd December 2008 to ACEFI@reexasia.comemail. Please click here for Application Form (word:28kbword, pdf:70kbpdf) and Executive Summary Guidelinespdf.

Participants selected to advance into the next round will be notified by Wednesday 7th January 2009. Immediately following this notification, organizers will work with the selected participants to arrange the agreed coaching support for the next stage of the Forum.