News and Updates

Dear SIPET Connect subscriber, 

Four years ago today, SIPET went live. 

On 30 September 2022, we launched the Southeast Asia Information Platform for Energy Transition (SIPET) through Clean, Affordable and Secure Energy for Southeast Asia (CASE) , implemented by GIZ and our partners, with a simple idea at its heart: any transition depends on informed decisions, and informed decisions depend on credible knowledge. 

We wanted to create a place where people working on Southeast Asia’s energy transition could find reliable data and information, follow developments across countries, discover relevant initiatives and research, and learn from one another. 

This ambition was closely connected to our mission of CASE. Since 2020, CASE has worked to support evidence-based energy transitions across Southeast Asia, bringing together research, transparency, dialogue, empowerment and communication to help advance clean, affordable and secure energy systems. SIPET became one way of bringing these different strands together in a shared regional space. 
 

Built through collaboration 

Over the years, SIPET grew beyond a platform for information. It became a space for sharing knowledge, connecting perspectives and making the work of a growing energy transition community more visible. 

Building SIPET also served as a reminder of something we experience throughout our work in CASE: there is no single pathway for Southeast Asia’s energy transition. Countries across the region have different energy systems, priorities, institutions and opportunities. At the same time, many of the questions they face are shared. 

Creating opportunities to make these different experiences visible – and to learn across countries – has therefore been at the heart of SIPET. The platform has benefited enormously from the knowledge, ideas and feedback of the many people and organisations that contributed along the way. 

From CASE to a regional home 

As CASE approaches the end of its journey, SIPET is now entering its next chapter. 

From the beginning, we knew that SIPET would eventually need to move beyond CASE. CASE is a project with a defined lifetime, while SIPET was created with a longer-term ambition: to serve as a regional platform for knowledge and exchange on Southeast Asia’s energy transition. 

We are very pleased that SIPET will find this new home with the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) , with its knowledge and resources transitioning into the ASEAN Energy Database System (AEDS). For a platform built around a regional perspective, becoming part of ASEAN’s dedicated institution for energy is a natural fit, and an opportunity for what we started through CASE to continue serving the region for years to come. 

The platform may be transitioning – the underlying cause is not. Southeast Asia’s energy transition is accelerating and evolving, and the need for accessible knowledge, transparency, exchange and collaboration is as important as ever. 

And while CASE itself is approaching its conclusion, the organisations and people that have made up CASE remain deeply engaged in this work. The partnerships, knowledge and connections built over the past years will continue to contribute to advancing clean, affordable and secure energy systems across the region. 

Thank you for building SIPET with us 

SIPET has always been a collective effort. 

Our sincere thanks go to our CASE partners – Agora Energiewende, NewClimate Institute, the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), the Energy Research Institute (ERI) at Chulalongkorn University, and the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), and to the many GIZ colleagues who contributed to SIPET’s development and realisation, as well as our government, research and institutional partners across Southeast Asia. 

We also extend our thanks to Asia Clean Energy Partners and V2 Infotech for their important contributions to developing, communicating and maintaining SIPET. 

And, above all, thank you to everyone who made the platform a living resource: those who shared data and research, contributed projects and insights, joined our events, provided feedback, read SIPET Connect, or used SIPET in their own work. 

The journey continues 

This may be the final edition of SIPET Connect, but it is not the end of what we started together. 

As SIPET moves into its new home with ACE and AEDS, CASE continues its work across Southeast Asia. In the months ahead, we will be sharing more from our work, the knowledge and lessons we have built together, and what comes next. So while this is goodbye from SIPET Connect, stay tuned to CASE as our journey continues. 

SIPET was built on the idea that Southeast Asia’s energy transition becomes stronger when knowledge is shared, different perspectives are heard, and people across countries and institutions learn from one another. That idea will continue, through ACE and AEDS, through the work of the CASE partners, and through the wider community that has grown around the region’s energy transition. 

Thank you for being part of SIPET, and for helping us build something that can continue beyond CASE. 

With warmest wishes, 

Sascha Oppowa 
CASE Project Director, GIZ 

Welcome to the August 2026 edition of SIPET Connect! 

Over the past five years, the Southeast Asia Information Platform for the Energy Transition (SIPET) has grown into a trusted regional knowledge platform, connecting policymakers, researchers, development partners, and energy stakeholders with the information and tools needed to support Southeast Asia's clean energy transition. 

As SIPET moves into its next chapter with the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), SIPET Connect has also reached its final edition.

In this final edition of SIPET Connect, we look ahead to what comes next. In our Special Feature, Silvira Ayu Rosalia from the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) and Maximilian Heil, Regional Project Coordinator for CASE for Southeast Asia at GIZ Thailand come together for a conversation on SIPET's evolution, the importance of regional ownership, and what the platform's transition to the ASEAN Energy Database System (AEDS) means for the future. Together, they reflect on the journey so far and share how SIPET's knowledge, tools, and resources will continue supporting Southeast Asia's clean energy transition under ASEAN's stewardship. 

In our Explainer Series, we unpack the International Energy Agency's latest Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2026, exploring why critical minerals have become central to the global clean energy transition and what the report means for Southeast Asia as demand for renewable energy technologies continues to grow. 

As always, we also bring you a curated selection of recent publications and resources from across Southeast Asia's clean energy community. 

It has been a pleasure and a privilege over the past several years bringing you updates on the activities, trends, and especially the voices of the energy transition from across Southeast Asia. 

— Drishti Chhibber and Peter du Pont, GIZ Consultants, Editors of SIPET Connect  

Welcome to the June 2026 edition of SIPET Connect! 

This month, SIPET Connect, turns to a question that has been building across the region for several years: Southeast Asia is not short on green ambition, but it may be short on execution. 

In our latest Transition Toolbox, we feature Aviva Imhof, Senior Director, Southeast Asia, Tara Climate Foundation, on the role of climate philanthropy in supporting Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition. The conversation explores how strategic partnerships, flexible funding, and regional collaboration can help accelerate practical action across the power sector.

In our Explainer, we unpack the findings of the Southeast Asia's Green Economy Report 2026: The New Calculus by Bain & Company and Standard Chartered, released in May. The report reveals a structural conversion problem at the heart of the region's transition: it is not capital that is missing, but the conditions to deploy it. With over a third of announced green investment at risk of not being realised, the pressure is on governments, utilities, and financiers to close the gap before long-term fossil fuel contracts lock in the wrong trajectory.

As always, we also provide a round-up of jobs, publications, and events worth watching across the region.

Welcome to the May 2026 edition of SIPET Connect! 

This month, SIPET Connect turns to an issue that feels especially timely for Southeast Asia’s transition. 

In our latest Transition Toolbox, we speak with Robert Tromop of the Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC) about the role of long-range energy outlooks, data, and modelling in shaping better regional energy decisions. As Southeast Asia navigates rising demand, shifting fuel markets, and more complex transition choices, the conversation is a reminder that credible planning tools matter just as much as ambitious targets. 

In our Explainer, we look at the current energy crisis rippling across Asia following the disruption of Middle East supply routes. What began as a geopolitical shock has quickly become a test of how exposed the region remains to imported fossil fuels, concentrated shipping routes, and price volatility. For Southeast Asia, the lesson is not only about emergency response, but about what real energy security requires next: more resilient systems, lower fuel dependence, and faster progress on clean power, efficiency, and flexibility.  

As always, we also round up a few jobs, publications, and events worth watching across the region.  

Welcome to the March 2026 edition of SIPET Connect! 

Marking March as Global Gender Equality Month, including International Women's Day, we turn to a dimension of the energy transition that is gaining visibility, but still struggles to translate into system-level change: gender. 

March’s Transition Toolbox, Ellen Bomasang shares insights from over three decades across energy and development, reflecting on how the sector’s approach to gender has evolved—and what it will take to move beyond participation toward structural change. From workforce dynamics to financing and institutional design, the conversation highlights where real progress is happening, and where gaps remain. 

Our Explainer Series builds on this by unpacking what the global evidence says about women’s participation in renewable energy, and why a gender-responsive approach is essential to making the transition both effective and equitable. 

Welcome to the February 2026 Edition of SIPET Connect. 

In this edition, we take a closer look at a question that continues to surface across Southeast Asia’s transition: why do strong projects still face challenges finding the right capital (and vice versa)? 

In this month’s Transition Toolbox, Sarah Love, who leads the FCDO’s Climate, Energy and Nature Network in Southeast Asia, speaks with Peter du Pont of SIPET Connect about what actually needs to change—from building a stronger pipeline of investable opportunities, to why momentum is building behind the ASEAN Power Grid, and how coordination platforms like PACE and blended finance tools (including FAST-P) can unlock the flow of private capital from interest to action. 

Welcome to SIPET Connect’s first edition of 2026.

As the year begins, this issue focuses on the practical “how” of advancing Southeast Asia’s energy transition. In our Transition Toolbox interview, Adritha Subbiah from Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership (ETP), shares how the SPARK initiative is building trusted, closed-door peer learning networks for senior policymakers to tackle thorny issues like carbon markets and coal phase-down.

Our Explainer this month looks at why transition finance matters for decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors, before we mark the International Day of Clean Energy and close with the SIPET Noticeboard and reading list to keep your 2026 radar sharp. 

Welcome to the December 2025 Edition of SIPET Connect, where we close the year by looking at how global climate politics and regional action are evolving.  

We start with an in-depth interview with Frauke Röser, Co-Founder and Director of NewClimate Institute, who offers a candid insider view of COP30 in Belém and what it means for fossil fuels, just transition, and NDC ambition. Our Explainer then breaks down the key outcomes from COP30, before we shift gears to a year-in-review of SIPET in 2025, from the Transition Finance Series and the new Transition Toolbox to the Power Policy Tracker and other tools helping Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition take shape.