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Southeast Asia’s electricity demand is set to double by 2050, with solar and wind now among the most cost-competitive options. This IEA report assesses the region’s readiness to integrate higher shares of variable renewables, outlining key challenges, opportunities, and actions for policymakers and utilities through 2030 and beyond.
A rapid expansion of wind and solar power is crucial to meet net-zero targets and to support economic growth in South, Southeast and East Asia. A recent analysis by Agora Energiewende shows how governments can achieve this, for example by reorienting derisking mechanisms towards clean energy and through robust grid planning to ensure renewables integration.
Agora Energiewende's analysis finds that South, Southeast, and East Asian economies need to increase solar and wind capacity by more than fivefold by 2030 to align with domestic climate and net-zero targets. This pace significantly exceeds the 2023 global pledge to triple renewable capacity, showing how much the region needs to catch up to align with renewable growth globally.
This interactive publication builds on analyses by local organisations, considering geographic constraints, political and economic developments, technology costs, resource potential, and social development goals. This edition is an updated version of the 2023 analysis.
This inaugural Jelajah Energi was conducted in Central Java as part of our collaboration with the Central Java Provincial Government. The Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) has been working with the Provincial Government of Central Java to accelerate the utilization of solar energy through the Central Java Solar Province initiative since 2019. Through various research activities, capacity building, and information dissemination, solar energy is encouraged to become one of the main sources of energy fulfillment in Central Java. In this province, various stories of energy transition can also be found, with many types of renewable energy and stories of people feeling the benefits.
Accelerating rooftop solar photovoltaics deployment for Indonesia's green recovery. Two years into the pandemic, global economies, including Indonesia, are still battling the coronavirus. In dampening the impact and recovering the economy, governments around the world have announced trillions of dollars into rescue-type and recovery-type measures, of which the latter is sometimes also associated with measures that are aimed not only to kickstart the economy in the short term, but also facilitate transformative change that is sustainable, resilient, and environmentally positive in the long term, or often referred to as "green recovery". This report seeks to provide analyses and recommendations on green recovery measures that Indonesia can adopt to recover its economy post-pandemic, particularly through power sector initiatives, i.e. rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV), given its deflationary costs as well as its quick-to-deploy and labor-intensive nature.
Thailand has huge rooftop solar potential that could offer both benefits of diversifying the country's renewable energy sources and enabling distributed generation at the consumer level through behind-the-metre installations.Despite a surge of rooftop solar PV installations in 2023, driven by high electricity prices, the current adoption rate of rooftop solar PV systems inThailand is still much lower than its vast potential. This gap is due to several policy, regulatory and financial risk barriers. This study systematically identifies the risks associated with rooftop solar PV investment in Thailand and quantifies these risks’ impacts on financial costs (i.e., the cost of equity and the cost of debt). In addition, the study highlights suggested policy and financial de-risking instruments that can support rooftop solar PV deployment in Thailand.