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This report examines the net-zero transition pathways of Sweden, Japan, Indonesia, Viet Nam and Thailand. It explores the diverse strategies each country has adopted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and compares their decarbonisation pathways to identify common opportunities, key challenges, and lessons learned. The analysis shows that achieving net-zero requires strong policy frameworks, sustained investment, technological innovation and institutional capacity.
The report finds that Indonesia has a strong regulatory foundation for energy efficiency, including provisions for PPPs and green finance. However, investment remains limited by weak project pipelines, financing gaps, perceived risks, limited ESCO capacity, and poor market coordination. It recommends translating existing policies into bankable, scalable industrial energy-efficiency projects.
The report highlights the increasing risk and impact of heat stress and disseminates information on key regulatory and technical solutions and their practical application by institutions, cities, and governments to reduce its adverse effects. Drawing on international good practices, the report showcases comprehensive technical, institutional, and financial innovations, and proposes a detailed road map for a Heat Action Plan for Thailand. This road map prioritizes protecting vulnerable populations, mobilizing public and private finance, and accelerating coordinated cross-sectoral solutions to build an inclusive, evidence-based, and sustainable response.
The Southeast Asia Energy Outlook 2026 is the seventh edition of this World Energy Outlook Special Report, making Southeast Asia by far the most regularly updated regional outlook compiled by the International Energy Agency (IEA). This reflects the dynamism of the region, as well as the importance of the IEA’s partnership with the eleven countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste (joined ASEAN in 2025) and Viet Nam.
As energy security concerns move ever higher on the policy agenda, this year’s report explores the trajectory that the region was on prior to the conflict in the Middle East, and discusses the potential implications of the energy crisis triggered by this conflict for policy priorities and investment strategies in the region.
This review has been prepared in collaboration with the Department of Energy (DOE) of the Philippines, the Economic Research Institute for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia (ERIA), and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). It examines trends, supply and demand dynamics and the evolving regulatory environment. It also highlights key risks and vulnerabilities for the power sector arising from factors such as rising demand, reliance on imported fuels, the need for grid modernisation, access and affordability constraints, financing challenges and growing exposure to extreme weather events.
In alignment with priorities set out by the DOE of the Philippines, the report provides a detailed analysis of three key areas: the potential for nuclear power, for energy resilience and for grid modernisation in the Philippines.
The ASEAN Interconnection Masterplan Study (AIMS) III Phase 3 report on Minimum Requirements for Multilateral Power Trade in ASEAN outlines the core technical system, market arrangements, and institutional frameworks needed to make multilateral power trading under the ASEAN Power Grid (APG) a reality. As the first part of the four AIMS III Phase 3 reports, this report emphasises that strong governance, transparent market rules, and coordinated transmission systems are the necessary building blocks for a more connected, secure, and sustainable ASEAN energy future. The report was prepared by the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), with the support of the United Nations Office for Project Services programme for Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership (ETP-UNOPS), Clean, Affordable and Secure Energy (CASE) for Southeast Asia, and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), under the APG Advancement Program (APG-AP)
The ASEAN Interconnection Masterplan Study (AIMS) III Phase 3 Report on ASEAN-wide Integrated Resource and Resilience Planning (IRRP) introduces a comprehensive framework designed to evolve traditional energy planning into a more adaptive and forward-looking regional strategy. The second part of the four AIMS III Phase 3 reports highlights the areas where ASEAN can enhance grid resilience, optimise cross-border investments, and achieve collective energy security in an increasingly complex energy landscape, by transitioning from isolated national efforts to a unified, probabilistic resiliency approach to regional planning. The report was prepared by the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), with the support of the United Nations Office for Project Services programme for Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership (ETP-UNOPS), Clean, Affordable and Secure Energy (CASE) for Southeast Asia, and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), under the APG Advancement Program (APG-AP)
The ASEAN Interconnection Masterplan Study (AIMS) III Phase 3 Report on Minimum Technical Standards for Interconnections provides a comprehensive regional framework for harmonising the minimum technical requirements for interconnections across the region to ensure seamless integration and operation of the ASEAN Power Grid (APG). In part 3 of the 4 AIMS III Phase 3 reports, it reveals that harmonising the minimum technical standards for interconnections through a phased approach, starting from voluntary subregional guidelines, is essential to maintain system stability, facilitate increased multilateral power trade, and ensure the reliable integration of renewable energy sources across borders. The report was prepared by the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), with the support of the United Nations Office for Project Services programme for Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership (ETP-UNOPS), Clean, Affordable and Secure Energy (CASE) for Southeast Asia, and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), under the APG Advancement Program (APG-AP)