Recently IRENA (The International Renewable Energy Agency) published a report on Energy Transition Outlook. This report offers an extensive, long-term energy roadmap that emphasises renewable energy sources for Indonesia’s transition to a cleaner, more sustainable energy system. As one of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members with the largest energy consumption, it is projected that over the next few decades, as its population and economy expand, so will its energy consumption. Indonesia is in a unique position to establish a sustainable energy system based on renewable energy that can promote economic development, address climate change, and achieve energy…
Author: Kamini
Through a pilot program that would allow renewable energy generators to sell electricity directly to private off-takers under virtual or synthetic deals for the first time, Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIOT) hopes to open up Vietnam’s electricity market to bilateral power purchase agreements (PPAs). As of right now, Power Vietnam (EVN), a state-owned energy firm, is the only buyer on the market and has a monopoly over the transmission, distribution, wholesale, and retail of electricity. According to Moritz Sticher, senior adviser at Berlin-based consulting firm Apricum, the program has not yet been launched and “no clear date exists…