The project seeks to identify the potential of the distributed energy in improving the energy efficiency and promoting renewable energy sources in the low carbon towns. The current challenges and their solutions, in various perspectives including government policies, economic viability as well as technological development modelling, will be studied. The ultimate objective is to develop and formulate a model and the best practices for application of distributed energy in new cities as well as existing cities under expansion and reconstruction needs.

A number of important findings were revealed at the Workshop including the following:

1. Government would take the lead for adoption of distributed energy source with incentive schemes;
2. Technical Standards should be standardized to facilitate more rapid development of  distributed energy source so as the allow the distributed energy sources be connected to the main grid supported by central power plants.
3. Distributed energy sources can foster the application of renewable energy sources and  greener fossil fuels such as natural gases, which demonstrates a great potential for development in APEC fora

In this report, the workshop participants recommended that similar workshops or forums on distributed energy source  to be organized every 1~2 years by different economies in turn so that economies can keep abreast of the rapid development in distributed energy source worldwide and follow up on the key findings in Section 4 above.