Natural gas and energy security in Southeast Asia.

This study focusses on the energy landscapes of Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. It assesses a range of energy options available to the three nations – natural gas, piped gas, oil, coal, renewables and nuclear – against the variables of availability, affordability, and acceptability. What they found was that natural gas was the best energy source to support credible energy transition in Asia, as the natural, reliable, low carbon complement to renewables. But large-scale infrastructure investments across the energy chain require long term policy certainty. Failure to recognize this fundamental point risks placing developing nations across Asia in a state of […]