#electrification News
Chinese international cooperation mechanisms such as the Belt and Road Initiative could fill the gaps left by US withdrawal.
The bulk of funding will be used to address intermittency and variability of renewables in off-grid areas, says Asian Development Bank’s energy director Keiju Mitsuhashi. The Philippines alone will require $10 billion to improve its domestic grid.
Multilateral development banks can help derisk the costs of decarbonisation and interconnections, with tech companies like Google playing a key role as large offtakers of clean energy. But the Asean Centre of Energy needs the mandate of the region's leaders to develop feasibility studies and optimisation scenarios.
Policy & Finance
The shape of a new climate politics emerges
Multilateral climate diplomacy looks increasingly defunct. Instead, geopolitics, trade and the power of the state matter more than ever.
Policy & Finance
What next for Southeast Asia’s China-backed solar boom?
#electrification Opinion
China pursued their low-carbon agenda not in response to climate change, but because of its own energy insecurity.
Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam have a sizeable presence in the global REE supply chain – now a geopolitical focal point – but although they may have substantial reserves, their REE production levels are still lower than China's.
Energy transition research addressing the range of equity concerns across India’s socioeconomic groups and regions is rare. This needs to change.
Last December's launch of Malaysia's first national EV could spur local component production, but this could be constrained by market conditions while the country's old supply chain, in which the carmaker remains heavily invested, will endure.
Policy & Finance
‘No-Go’ mining zones can protect nature as renewable energy surges
#electrification Videos
After 20 years without electricity, more than 50 households in Cebu's poorest district have been provided with solar energy, financed by carbon offsets.
#electrification Podcasts
Carbon & Climate
Just another cost centre? CLP Power’s Hendrik Rosenthal on justifying sustainability in turbulent times
In the second episode of 'On the frontlines', power firm CLP's group sustainability director Rosenthal talks to the EB Podcast about the challenges of steering sustainability in a carbon-heavy industry, closing coal plants and the need for pragmatism.
GoTo sustainability head Tanah Sullivan tells the Eco-Business Podcast that regulating net-zero claims would decarbonise Southeast Asia faster. Indonesia's biggest internet firm aims to cut emissions to zero by 2030 — a target critics say is unrealistic.
Exclusive
In this new podcast series 'Climate Tech in Asia', Eco-Business speaks to Gogoro chairman and CEO Horace Luke about the company's recent listing on the Nasdaq and its quest to electrify Asia's ubiquitous two-wheelers and make battery swapping mainstream.
#electrification Press Releases
Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS
Power without borders: Charting Asean's path to an interconnected energy future
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Why 2025 could be the year of the electric vehicle in developing countries
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Sustainable transport needed to overcome ‘last mile’ in development in Asia and the Pacific
