ASEAN’s looming renewables revolution
Southeast Asia, when taken as a whole, is a global laggard in the uptake of renewable energy, but some countries are leading the way, such as Vietnam, the Philippines, and Myanmar. And as ‘Angry Clean Energy Guy’ Assaad W. Razzouk argues, policymakers in the region cannot hold back the tide of solar and wind for much longer.
Finland, population 5.5 million, is a European nation with about one-third of its territory located above the Arctic Circle. Indonesia, population 268 million, is a huge country of about 17,000 islands splashed across the equator. So that’s 52 times more people than Finland. But Finland’s installed solar energy capacity is bigger than Indonesia’s. Yet, at …
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