SE Asia urged to speed up clean energy transition
Southeast Asian countries will need to accelerate their transition to clean energy to limit their dependence on imported fuel and rein in inflationary pressures, analysts said.
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Southeast Asian countries will need to accelerate their transition to clean energy to limit their dependence on imported fuel and rein in inflationary pressures, analysts said.
One study shows distributed energy resources such as small solar panels could one day account for half of the region’s renewable energy output.
IESR responded to the Indonesian government's plan to lower the new renewable energy (NRE) mix target to 17-19 percent by 2025.
IESR projected that the energy sector will potentially create millions of new job opportunities.
The World Bank in 2016 reported that 50,000 Thais died from air-pollution-induced diseases while the effects of air pollution on the national health budget eats 6% of Thailand’s annual GDP.