Category: Knowledge Center Asia

Managing Europe’s Greentech Dependence on China: Brief

Managing Europe’s Greentech Dependence on China: Brief

May 31, 2024 | , ,

“De-risking” is the guiding motif of the EU’s new approach to China, particularly in green technologies where Chinese companies are striving for full dominance. For Europe, these same industries are supposed to generate future prosperity, enable the green transition, and enhance security through greater energy independence. Instead of individually using incentives and trade tools ad hoc, at random, and in insufficient doses, member states should revolutionise their approach.

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Renewables progress in Southeast Asia: Report

Renewables progress in Southeast Asia: Report

May 17, 2024 | , ,

Southeast Asian countries are committed to decarbonising their economies and reaching  net zero in the coming decades. Between them, they aim to achieve net-zero emissions between 2050 and 2060. This transformation will, by necessity, include a strong deployment  of renewables. However, the boldness of these goals does not yet reflect in annual capacity  additions. The region, therefore, is on the cusp of an important step change and significant efforts can bring about this transformation.

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Financing Industrial Decarbonization in India: Paper

Financing Industrial Decarbonization in India: Paper

May 10, 2024 | , ,

This paper has highlighted the complexities and challenges of decarbonizing industries and also discussed a conceptual framework consisting of industry- and financial sector-level measures to enable financing for low-carbon industrial production. So far, there has been no investment in green steel production in India, and given the nascency of deep-decarbonization technologies, it is expected that pre-2030, emissions abatement in iron and steel will need to come through best-available technologies, which have a negative or near-zero marginal cost of abatement. 

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Regional grids key to Singapore’s energy future: EMBER

Regional grids key to Singapore’s energy future: EMBER

May 3, 2024 | , ,

Singapore aims to boost solar capacity to 2 GW and build up to 4 GW of interconnections to import clean electricity from neighbouring countries like Indonesia, VietNam and Cambodia, based on its 2030 Green Plan. With its substantial financial resources and positioning, Singapore has the financial muscle to fuel Asia’s energy transition, making it well-suited to lead and fund renewable projects in the region.

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Assessing Electricity Transition Pathway for Indian States: Report

Assessing Electricity Transition Pathway for Indian States: Report

April 26, 2024 | , ,

The 2024 Indian States’ Electricity Transition (SET) report by IEEFA and EMBER finds that Gujarat and Karnataka have effectively integrated renewable energy into their power sectors, shown adequate preparedness to further the electricity transition and have robust market enablers to facilitate future growth of clean electricity. The two states’ consistent performance over several different parameters across two iterations of the report highlights their strength when it comes to electricity transition.

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Low-Carbon Transition Finance in China: Report

Low-Carbon Transition Finance in China: Report

April 12, 2024 | , ,

In recent years, green finance in China has developed rapidly, boosting confidence in the transition of the entire market. However, green finance investments have mostly focused on “pure green” projects with high technological maturity, such as clean energy, green transportation, and green building. For industries with high carbon emissions, such as heavy industry, or projects at relatively early stages of technology development, financial support remains insufficient, making it difficult to meet the transition needs of these sectors.

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De-Risking EV Lending in India: Report

De-Risking EV Lending in India: Report

April 5, 2024 | , , ,

Despite the growing adoption of EVs in India, the availability of accessible and affordable financing remains one of the major challenges for the widespread transition to e-mobility. From the perspective of financiers, lending for ICE two- and three-wheelers is a difficult business because the borrower profile consists of many new-to-credit customers who are learning to adapt to formal credit cycles and typically have a history of significant delays in payments.

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Vietnam’s Green Hydrogen Potential: Paper

Vietnam’s Green Hydrogen Potential: Paper

March 17, 2024 | , , ,

Between 2016 and 2020, the manufacturing sector made up 23.8% of Vietnam’s GDP, with almost one-fifth—5% of the manufacturing sector—coming from the domestic iron and steel industries. Surprisingly, the steel sector alone is responsible for 7% of Vietnam’s total CO2 emissions. Decreasing emissions from iron and steel will require transitioning away from fossil fuels that have traditionally powered production and shifting toward low or zero-emission alternatives. 

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Scaling rooftop solar in Bangladesh: Presentation

Scaling rooftop solar in Bangladesh: Presentation

March 15, 2024 | , , ,

This slide deck “Scaling up rooftop solar deployment in Bangladesh” is prepared by IEEFA. It indicates that Bangladesh needs to design a market that incentivises and de-risks investments in rooftop solar to increase the pace of implementation and achieve scale. The study focuses on major challenges in the rooftop solar space, measures to address these issues, and policy-level interventions to change the status quo.

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China Misses Climate Targets: Report

China Misses Climate Targets: Report

March 1, 2024 | , ,

In 2021, the country committed to strictly limiting coal consumption growth; strictly controlling new coal power; reducing energy intensity; and reducing carbon intensity; it also set targets of increasing the share of non-fossil energy sources to 20%; and getting more than 50% of the increase in energy use from renewable sources. All of these targets are severely off track after 2023. Almost half (46%) of the growth in energy use came from coal and 70% from fossil fuels, against a target of getting more than 50% of the growth from renewable energy, target that is off track.

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Update on China’s EV Revolution: Presentation

Update on China’s EV Revolution: Presentation

February 23, 2024 | , , ,

Despite slower growth, China’s NEV market continues to expand. NEV sales are expanding for almost all market segments, but the most rapid growth is among PHEVs for larger vehicles, though PHEVs are still a minority of NEV sales volume. Under either a rapid or slower growth scenario, NEVs are set to surpass 50% of the total vehicle stock by the early 2030s

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Indonesia’s Charging Infrastructure Demands: Paper

Indonesia’s Charging Infrastructure Demands: Paper

February 16, 2024 | , , ,

This study analyses Indonesia’s unique charging infrastructure needs by exploring two categories of charging stations, private and public. Private chargers are home chargers in single and multi-family dwellings and depot chargers that serve EV fleets in centralised locations. Investment costs for private chargers are borne by individuals or companies.

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Bidirectional Charging for PV Integration in China: Report

Bidirectional Charging for PV Integration in China: Report

January 5, 2024 | , , , ,

The report extends an earlier analysis of rural PV and heat pumps to include an evaluation of the potential for bidirectional EV charging. Rural China is undergoing a vast build-out of rooftop solar, but also suffers from grid constraints that hinder absorption of midday PV, making local energy storage potentially important for shifting PV overproduction to other hours.

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Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage Policy in Indonesia: IEA Report

Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage Policy in Indonesia: IEA Report

December 28, 2023 | , , ,

Indonesia’s young power and industrial assets need clean energy alternatives and energy efficiency measures in order for the country to reach its climate target of net zero emissions by 2060. This report aims to inform that Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) can be an important technology to help achieve that goal while advancing energy security and employment outcomes. It is set to play diverse roles in supporting Indonesia’s energy transition. 

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ASEAN Energy Statistics Leaflet

ASEAN Energy Statistics Leaflet

November 24, 2023 | , ,

2023 ASEAN Energy Statistics Leaflet (AESL) provides comprehensive visualised snapshots of the energy landscape in ASEAN. These include primary energy supply, final energy consumption, electricity, renewable energy, energy-gender, and other energy-related indicators. Data sources of AEDS are the official submission from ASEAN Member States, complemented with reports from government agencies and international organisations.

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Renewable Energy Jobs in ASEAN: Paper

Renewable Energy Jobs in ASEAN: Paper

August 31, 2023 | , ,

The findings indicate that ASEAN’s renewable energy (RE) jobs will reach between 3.9 – 5.5 million, with Vietnam and Indonesia dominating the share. Meanwhile, job share growth based on the technology is most robust in hydropower and solar. As new plants are established during the early years, job creation will be relatively higher, especially in manufacturing and construction.

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