Reflecting fast rising standards of living and industrial output, energy demand more than doubled in Southeast Asian countries between 1990 and 2007. Power generation increased close to four-fold over those years. How are renewables faring in this period of fast expansion?

“Deploying Renewables in Southeast Asia” is the title of a new downloadable IEA working paper that explores the potential and barriers for up-scaling market penetration of renewable energy technologies in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The 164-page study focuses on the electricity, heating and transport sectors and offers a set of recommendations to advance more surely towards large-scale diffusion of renewables in Southeast Asia.

The full report can be downloaded >> here; the Executive Summary >> here.

Source: International Energy Agency (IEA)