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Beyond large-scale projects like power plants, the development of renewable energy sources may find significant traction in rooftop solar and electric vehicles, potentially reshaping the market landscape. Experts suggest that with appropriate policies in place, these small-scale distributed energy resources (DER) could contribute to over half of Southeast Asia’s green electricity.
Gabrielle Kuiper, a DER specialist at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), highlighted in an interview with “This Week in Asia,” a media under South China Morning Post, that Southeast Asian countries serve as technology hubs, particularly in solar and battery production capacities. “All of these technologies could be very effective in Southeast Asia,” she emphasized.
