Gender, Power, and the Energy Transition: Moving from Inclusion to Structural Change

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. 

Welcome to the November 2025 Edition of SIPET Connect. 

In this month’s edition collaboration, creativity, and reform take center stage in driving the region’s clean energy shift. 

For our Transition Toolbox, Leo Horn-Phathanothai, Founder and Executive Director of the Just Energy Transition Incubator (JUTI), reflects on how Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) turned climate dialogue into a citywide experiment in civic engagement and inclusion. The Explainer unpacks how battery energy storage systems (BESS) are bridging renewable supply, demand gaps, while our Highlight features the launch of the ASEAN School of Regulation, a regional initiative training energy regulators to advance cross-border power trade and sustainable reform. 

Plus, explore upcoming events and opportunities shaping Southeast Asia’s energy transition.