Asia S Energy Trends And Developments

Author : Mark Hong,Amy Lugg
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814425599

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With Asia, — especially China and India, — leading world energy consumption, Asian energy trends are now of global interest, with deep implications for the world economy and geopolitics. Understanding the issues often require real-life case scenarios. This two-volume compilation presents the key topics on Asia's energy trends and developments that were presented at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore as part of its Energy Series Programme. A wide range of topics is covered, from nanotechnology, clean energy, hydropower, renewable energy and nuclear power to bilateral relations, energy security and energy efficiency — all with the unifying energy theme in the context of Asia. The nature of the issues is clearly illustrated in the case studies. The chapters are authored by international experts and innovators in their respective fields, from academia, government and private sectors, providing their perspectives on the energy debate in Asia. This compilation will provide the reader with insights into the overall trends and developments that have shaped and continue to influence energy policy, economic strategy and geopolitics in Asia. The case studies offer an especially useful reference point for experts and an understanding of the complex issues for laypersons. Contents:Volume 1:Climate Change: A Global Issue (Tan Yong Soon)Grooming Clean Energy as a Key Growth Area for Singapore (Goh Chee Kiong)Nanoenergy in Singapore (Hiranmayee Vedam)Innovation with Energy and Energy with Innovation (Geoffrey C Nicholson)Hydropower in Southeast Asia (Erik Knive)Philippine Experiences with Grid-Connected Renewable Energy Power Systems (N A Orcullo, Jr)The Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Business: From Evolution to Revolution (Steve Puckett and Tony Regan)Developing Renewable Energy and Carbon Abatement Projects in Asia (William I Y Byun)Power Development Plan and Status of Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Development in Indonesia (Djoko Prasetijo)Korean Nuclear Power Technology (Hae Ryong Hwang and Shin Whan Kim)Malaysian Perspectives Planning and Problems with Regard to Nuclear Energy (Shahidan Radiman)The Asian Development Bank's Regional Perspectives, Policies and Issues Regarding Nuclear Energy and Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia (Anthony J Jude)Birthing an ASEAN Nuclear Energy Cooperation Regime: Drivers, Status and Way Forward (Francisco G Delfin Jr)Should ASEAN Go Nuclear? (Lee Yoong Yoong)Myanmar and the Nuclear Option (Thaung Tun)Volume 2:The Logic of Energy Policy: The Case of Upstream Oil, Gas, Coal and Downstream Oil Sectors in Southeast Asia (Ridwan D Rusli)East Asia's Energy Challenges: General Energy Cooperation and the Question of Competition (Christopher Len)Contemporary Japanese–Russian Energy Cooperation: Problems, Current Developments and Perspectives (Svetlana Vassiliouk)Energy-Related Policy Issues in Terms of Japan–China Relations (Yuji Morita)India's Pipelines: Paradox, Problems and Possibilities (Marie Lall)The Caucasus: Conflict, Instability and Fossil Energy Export Route (Hooman Piemani)Kazakh Gas Policy in the Central Asian Region: Problems and Prospects (Zhanibek Saurbek)The Theory of Stable Arab Gas Diplomacy: Regional Energy Security Through the Arab Gas Pipeline (Mary E Stonaker) Readership: Students, researchers and the general public who are interested to understand a wide range of energy issues and various aspects of sustainable energy. Keywords:Asian Energy;Nuclear Energy in Asia;Country Case StudiesKey Features:It provides different perspectives from government, private and academic sectorsIt gives country-specific case studies that could be adapted and applied elsewhereIt considers the prospects for renewable energy sources with practical examples as well as the potential for creativity and innovation as a means to develop energy supply alternativesIt is written by energy experts focused on the Asia regionIt considers nuclear power as an option for Asian nationsIt has interesting information conveniently packaged in one easy to read volume

Author : Mark Hong,Amy Lugg
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Energy development
ISBN : 9814425613

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With Asia, - especially China and India, - leading world energy consumption, Asian energy trends are now of global interest, with deep implications for the world economy and geopolitics. Understanding the issues often require real-life case scenarios. This two-volume compilation presents the key topics on Asia's energy trends and developments that were presented at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore as part of its Energy Series Programme. A wide range of topics is covered, from nanotechnology, clean energy, hydropower, renewable energy and nuclear power to bilateral relations, energy security and energy efficiency - all with the unifying energy theme in the context of Asia. The nature of the issues is clearly illustrated in the case studies. The chapters are authored by international experts and innovators in their respective fields, from academia, government and private sectors, providing their perspectives on the energy debate in Asia. This compilation will provide the reader with insights into the overall trends and developments that have shaped and continue to influence energy policy, economic strategy and geopolitics in Asia. The case studies offer an especially useful reference point for experts and an understanding of the complex issues for laypersons.

Author : S Narayan,Christopher Len,Roshni Kapur
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811204333

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Sustainable Energy Transition In South Asia: Challenges And Opportunities by S Narayan,Christopher Len,Roshni Kapur Pdf

With South Asia's growing energy demand, governments in the region are facing the short-term pressures of facilitating energy access, while attempting to formulate long-term sustainable strategies. This book explores how the key economies of South Asia are addressing issues such as the diversification of energy consumption profiles and import sources, investments in renewables, enabling universal energy access, challenges to regional energy cooperation, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and the policy changes that can foster bilateral and multilateral action.As governments seek to ensure access to affordable, reliable, secure, sustainable and modern energy, trends and drivers are emerging and shaping the South Asian energy landscape. The first section of the book examines energy trends at the regional level, while the second section focuses on the internal and external challenges faced by India — the largest energy consumer in the region and the third-largest energy consumer in the world.The diverse perspectives in this volume provide a holistic snapshot of South Asia's ongoing low-carbon energy transition, and highlight the importance of the region working collectively to navigate the many obstacles.

Author : Jun Tian (Economist),Sean Ratka,Kimberly Roseberry
Publisher : UN
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UIUC:30112116028082

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2016 Regional Trends Report by Jun Tian (Economist),Sean Ratka,Kimberly Roseberry Pdf

The 2016 Regional Trends Report on Energy for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific supports the implementation of the SDG7 and outcomes of the Asian and Pacific Energy Forum 2013.

Author : Xiaodong Wang,Noureddine Berrah,Subodh Mathur,Ferdinand Vinuya
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 082138502X

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Winds of Change by Xiaodong Wang,Noureddine Berrah,Subodh Mathur,Ferdinand Vinuya Pdf

East Asia has experienced the fastest economic growth in the world over the last three decades, accompanied by a 10-fold gross domestic product increase and rapid urbanization. Energy consumption has more than tripled during this period and is expected to double over the next 20 years. This remarkable trend has led to twin energy challenges in the region environmental sustainability and energy security. Written for an audience of energy policy makers and practitioners, Winds of Change explores the region s energy future over the next two decades through two energy scenarios. It outlines the strategic direction East Asia s energy sector must take to meet its growing energy demand in an environmentally sustainable manner, and presents a pathway of policy frameworks and financing mechanisms to get there. The six East Asian countries China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam examined in this book could, with the right policies and financing, stabilize CO2 emissions by 2025, improve their local environment, and enhance energy security without compromising economic growth. They must move their energy sectors toward much higher efficiency and more widespread use of low-carbon technologies, while obtaining substantial financing and low-carbon technologies from developed countries. This clean energy revolution requires major policy and institutional reforms, including energy pricing reforms, regulations such as energy efficiency standards, financial incentives such as feed-in tariffs for renewable energy, and accelerated research and development. Finally, building low-carbon cities will be key to containing the rapid urban energy growth through compact urban design, public transport, clean vehicles, and green buildings. The window of opportunity is closing fast delaying action would lock the region into a longlasting high-carbon infrastructure. The technical and policy means exist for such transformational changes, but only strong political will and unprecedented international cooperation will make them happen.

Author : Christopher M. Dent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317614425

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Renewable Energy in East Asia by Christopher M. Dent Pdf

Energy is crucial to the functioning of any human society and central to understanding East Asia’s ‘economic miracle’. The region’s rapid development over the last few decades has been inherently energy-intensive and the impact on global energy security, climate change and the twenty-first-century global system generally is now very significant and will become more so over foreseeable years and decades to come. The region is already the world’s largest energy consumer and greenhouse gas emitter, so establishing cleaner energy systems in East Asia is both a regional and global challenge, and renewable energy has a critically important part to play in meeting it. This book presents a comprehensive study of renewable energy development in East Asia. It begins by examining renewable energy development in global and historic contexts, and situates East Asia’s position in the recent worldwide expansion of renewables. This same approach is applied on sector-specific chapter studies on wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, ocean (wave and tidal) and bioenergy, and to general trends in renewable energy policy. Governments play a critical role in promoting renewables and their contribution to tackling climate change and other environmental challenges. Christopher M. Dent argues this is particularly relevant to East Asia, where state capacity practice has been increasingly allied to ecological modernisation thinking to form what he calls ‘new developmentalism’, the principal foundation on which renewables have developed in the region as well as how East Asia’s low carbon development is being generally promoted. Renewable Energy in East Asia will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, economics, political economy, energy studies, business, development, international relations and environmental studies. It will also appeal to researchers working on the subject matter in government, business, international organisations, think tanks and civil society organisations.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789292574321

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Development Asia—Lighting the Future by Asian Development Bank Pdf

If one question could threaten Asia's dynamic growth and impressive gains in poverty reduction in recent decades, it is the region's energy supply. The complex issues that encompass energy security are vital for ensuring a region's economic growth. It is not just a matter of maintaining the supply of energy that Asia needs to fuel its growth. The region must also navigate the treacherous waters of conflict and cooperation when it comes to accessing energy resources. On top of these challenges lie the energy implications of climate change: many now believe that the cheapest, most abundant fuels—such as coal—can no longer be the primary sources of energy for the region. Asia must take the lead in supplying and consuming cleaner, renewable energy. According to the International Energy Agency, the emerging economies in the region, led by the People's Republic of China and India, are driving world energy demand, demonstrating a growing appetite both for fossil fuels and renewable sources of energy. Yet, more than 800 million people in Asia and the Pacific still have no access to electricity. Against this backdrop, this issue of Development Asia takes a broad look at energy security in Asia. The prospects and challenges associated with coal, renewable energy, oil and gas, and the sensitive area of nuclear energy development are explored in detail. The gargantuan infrastructure challenges associated with the region's aging power transmission grid—a vital aspect of regional cooperation in energy—is examined by new contributor John Otis, an author and Time magazine correspondent. This edition also examines the plight of millions of people in Asia who never obtained birth certificates. A simple process in many countries, it can be a crippling problem for those whose births are never registered. They are often invisible to government, reports regular contributor Karen Emmons. Unprotected by labor laws and left out of many social safety net programs, they are among Asia's most vulnerable people.

Author : Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9948005694

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Asian Energy Markets by Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research Pdf

With the Arab Gulf States supplying the major proportion to Asian energy needs, Gulf-Asia links will emerge as a key factor in the global energy scenario. What are the economic and strategic implications of Asia's growing dependence on Gulf oil? How far can Asian countries counter such dependence by improving energy efficiency and developing new sources? What are the energy transitions that Asian nations are undergoing? This book seeks to address these questions and other issues relating to the Asian energy sector including supply security, consumption trends, privatization moves, energy diversification, energy self-sufficiency and foreign investment.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789292572990

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Asia by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Unsustainable budgetary cost of selling oil, gas, and coal at low prices has propelled energy subsidy reform in developing Asian economies. This report measures the size of associated subsidies on these fossil fuels including direct transfers, tax exemptions, subsidized credit, and losses of state enterprises in India, Indonesia, and Thailand. An analysis of complex interactions between economic, social, energy, and environmental issues shows that the initial rise in energy prices due to a reduction or removal of the subsidies will nudge households and businesses to shift to alternative fuels, make investment in clean energy attractive, increase energy supply, reduce energy shortages, and cut greenhouse gas emissions. Using the money freed up from subsidies to compensate poor households and to increase government budgets will offset the negative effects of the initial price rise, promote sustainable energy use, and help allay the fears of reform.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9292541633

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Same Energy, More Power by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789292702366

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Strategy 2030 Energy Sector Directional Guide by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This sector directional guide describes the context and rationale that will guide the agenda of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in supporting developing member countries with financing, knowledge, convening ability, and technical assistance to ensure improved the coherence, relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness of ADB’s energy sector investments. It outlines the priorities and focus for the energy sector in line with Strategy 2023. The guide is designed to be a living document, to be updated as needed to remain relevant to the dynamic development context of Asia and the Pacifi c. A midterm review will be conducted following the expected review of the Energy Policy in 2025.

Author : The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Publisher : Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Asian Energy Markets by The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research Pdf

Energy has become a crucial determinant shaping the security environment of Asia. The continent's phenomenal growth is projected to raise oil and gas consumption to dramatic new levels. As major Asian nations become net energy importers, this thirst for oil will determine world energy export patterns and shape regional geopolitics. With the Arabian Gulf supplying the major proportion of Asian energy needs, Gulf-Asia links will emerge as a key factor in the global energy scenario. Energy security concerns will dominate Asian economic policy and strategic decision making and spur Asian investment in oil exploration, oil refining and development of alternative energy sources. What are the economic and strategic implications of Asia's growing dependence on Gulf oil? How far can Asian countries counter such dependence by improving energy efficiency and developing new sources? What are the energy transitions that Asian nations are undergoing? What kind of structural reforms are needed in the Asian energy markets? What are the implications of Asian energy consumption trends and current economic reforms for the Arabian Gulf producers? What will the impact of Asian markets be on the global energy scenario? These and related issues were examined by energy experts at the Seventh Annual Energy Conference held in Abu Dhabi from January 13-14, 2002. This volume of conference presentations discusses wide-ranging issues relating to the Asian energy sector including supply security, consumption trends, privatization moves, energy diversification, energy self-sufficiency and foreign investment.

Author : Aldo Iacomelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402039255

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Renewable Energies for Central Asia Countries: Economic, Environmental and Social Impacts by Aldo Iacomelli Pdf

New technologies will play a crucial role in the development of a market of "sustainable energy products" that should grow in a competitive way to stand against the challenge of change. This book suggests learn from Central Asian countries the potentiality of renewable in such areas as an option. The book investigates policy option for new markets for renewable technology, and it tests the economic path for the Kyoto protocol implementation.

Author : Anis Zaman
Publisher : UN
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCBK:C116398191

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Energy Transition Pathways for the 2030 Agenda in Asia and the Pacific by Anis Zaman Pdf

The Asia and the Pacific region has become a global economic powerhouse. The region's rapid and sustained economic growth, increasing population, expanding industrialisation and rapid urbanization are driving rapid growth in energy demand, which. Ensuring that supplies of energy are adequate to meet the growth in demand in ways that are socially, economically and environmentally responsible creates a new set of challenges for policymakers.The transition to 2030 energy pathway, which is aimed at addressing those challenges, has four coherent and interlinked objectives - increased energy supply to meet the growing demand, improved energy security, meeting the SDG7 targets and achieving NDCs. Addressing the complex and challenging task requires policymakers to develop a clear, sustainable and achievable pathway that would enable the countries, as well as the region as a whole, to achieve the 2030 goals and targets This report undertakes an in-depth analysis to first determine the level of achievement is possible under the current policy regime by developing a baseline. It then identifies the gap between the baseline and the 2030 targets to inform policymakers the additional efforts and resources that would be needed to adequately achieve SDG7 targets as well as the NDCs mitigation targets for the energy sector. Finally, different transition pathways have been developed and their socio-economic and environmental facets have been examined to assist policymakers to make an informed decision. The report also identifies the enabling policy, technology and market environment that would accelerate the achievement of the 2030 targets.

Author : Jens Marquardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317194675

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How Power Shapes Energy Transitions in Southeast Asia by Jens Marquardt Pdf

An understanding of the role of energy-related governance systems and the conditions required for a shift towards renewables in developing countries is urgently needed in order to tap into the global potential of low-carbon development. Although renewable energy sources have become technically feasible and economically viable, social and political factors continue to persist as the most critical obstacles for their dissemination. How Power Shapes Energy Transitions in Southeast Asia conceptualizes power for the field of sustainable energy governance. Based on empirical findings from the Philippines and Indonesia, the book develops an analytical approach that incorporates power theory into a multi-level governance framework. The book begins with a profound background on renewable energy development around the world and presents major trends in development cooperation. A power-based multi-level governance approach is introduced that is rooted in development thinking. Examining how coordination and power relations shape the development and dissemination of renewable energy technologies, the book also shows how decentralization affects low carbon development in emerging economies. Sparking debate on the ways in which energy transitions can be triggered and sustained in developing countries, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of renewable energy development and environmental politics and governance as well as practitioners in development cooperation.