Featured in A solar lifeline – 07-2021

From the back of the pack

Southeast Asia could well become the global engine room of renewable energy expansion. Population and economic growth is expected across the three decades in which the world has to decarbonize, but the brimming bounty of renewables deployment will force developers to navigate the region’s systems. As it turns out, that could be a treacherous task.

By

Bella Peacock

08 Jul 2021

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By all accounts, Indonesia has massive capacity for renewable energy (pp. 16-18). As the most populous country in the region, “its young population, abundant natural resources, vast untapped renewable energy potential … put Indonesia in a prime position to become a major player in the future of global energy,” writes the International Energy Agency …

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