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    The Role of Renewable Energy in Resolving Energy Insecurity in Asia

    Peimani, Hooman; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad | September 2019
    Abstract
    Energy security implies the availability, affordability, applicability, plausibility and acceptability of countries’ energy supply. Implying the sustainability of countries’ energy supplies, energy insecurity is widespread across Asia. Southeast Asia (SEA) serves as an example for Asia’s energy insecurity. Notwithstanding efforts to expand its share of renewable energy (renewables), fossil energy dominates the regional energy mix. Various factors have created obstacles for the expansion of renewables in SEA, prolonging this environmentally unsustainable situation. Their addressing demands a comprehensive approach to ensure the energy requirements of the regional countries and also their social and economic development in determining their choice of energy. Singapore and the Philippines serve as good examples of energy insecurity in SEA, having fossil energy-dominated energy mixes. Expanding the share of renewables in their energy mixes demands different plans linked to their sustainable development, which is true for the rest of SEA. However, achieving this objective demands different routes, given their differences in terms of the availability, affordability, applicability, plausibility and acceptability of energy, particularly those of environmentally clean renewables. It necessitates sustainable energy to make such renewables a necessity whose local production could serve as an engine for economic development while simultaneously ending their energy insecurity.
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    Peimani, Hooman; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad. 2019. The Role of Renewable Energy in Resolving Energy Insecurity in Asia. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/11236.
    Keywords
    Alternative Energy Development
    Asian Development Bank
    Development
    Development Cooperation
    Rural Development Projects
    Energy Development Finance
    Renewable Energy
    Energy
    Rural planning
    Aid coordination
    Industrial projects
    Infrastructure projects
    Natural resources policy
    Educational development
    Development policy
    Energy Demand
    Alternative energy program
    Domestic Energy
    Energy
    Energy Demand
    Energy Sources
    ADB
    Communication in rural development
    Communication in community development
    Economic development projects
    Development banks
    Economic forecasting
    Environmental auditing
    Cumulative effects assessment
    Human rights and globalization
    Rural manpower policy
    Biogas
    Biomass chemical
    Biomass gasification
    Biomass energy
    Demand
    Energy Security
    Renewable Energy Source
    Supply and Demand
    Technology
    Solar energy policy
    Development banks
    Infrastructure
    Joint venture
    Energy policy
    Renewable energy source
    Solar energy
    Energy development
    Technology
    Sun
    Energy resource
    Water power
    Hydrology
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    Energy

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