Asean ministers set 35% target on renewable energy

December 15, 2020

Dateline 2020-11-20, The Malaysiain Reserve:

ENERGY Ministers in the Asean region have agreed to set a new target of 35% renewable energy (RE) in installed power capacity by 2025.

This aim was made following Malaysia’s proposal for the region to set a target for RE in installed power capacity by 2025 during its tenure as the chairman of the Renewable Energy Sub-Sector Network (RE-SSN) from 2018 until 2020.

“Malaysia’s effort has come to fruition when ASEAN Energy Ministers agreed to set a new target of 35% RE in installed power capacity by 2025, which Malaysia believes will contribute to achieving ASEAN’s target of 23% of RE in Total Primary Energy Supply in 2025.

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Analysis: Trans-ASEAN gas projects losing relevance amid the fast-paced LNG growth

December 24, 2018

Not a purely Malaysian item, but since some of our longdistance pipelines were meant to be part of the network, it’s interesting.

Dateline 2018-11-07, S&P Global:

An ambitious project to link Southeast Asia with a network of natural gas pipelines is losing relevance to a much faster build-out of LNG import terminals as the region leans increasingly towards seaborne supplies.

The Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline was first conceived in the 1980s to boost the region’s energy security using Southeast Asia’s own prolific gas reserves, but was slow to progress like most politically driven large-scale energy projects.

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