South East Asia
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Southeast Asia to add a Japan’s worth of electricity demand within a decade, IEA says
The IEA’s new outlook puts numbers on the region’s surge: demand growing twice as fast as…
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Transformer lead times stretch as global grid build-out competes for supply
Utilities and developers in emerging markets report longer waits for large power transformers as global demand…
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Standalone battery tenders scale from tens to hundreds of megawatts
A new generation of standalone battery storage tenders in emerging markets is procuring hundreds of megawatts…
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Energy infrastructure in Vietnam: how the power system works and where it is heading
Who runs Vietnam’s grid, what the national power development plan prioritises, why solar and wind boomed…
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Energy infrastructure in Thailand: EGAT, the power development plan and the shift to renewables and storage
How Thailand’s power sector is structured, what the power development plan means for renewables, gas and…
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Utility-scale solar tenders shift to scoring on evening delivery
Procurement agencies are rewriting solar tender rules to reward firm energy delivered into the evening peak,…
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Utility-scale battery rollouts anchor emerging-market resilience
Grid-scale storage is being specified for reliability first and arbitrage second, changing how projects are sized…
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Energy infrastructure in Indonesia: PLN, the archipelago grid and the coal-to-clean question
How Indonesia’s power system is organised across thousands of islands, why coal still dominates, what the…
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Regulators move to fast-track cross-border transmission
Interconnection is being reframed as a reliability tool rather than a trade project, and approvals are…
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Energy infrastructure in the Philippines: an unbundled market, green energy auctions and an island grid
How the Philippines’ privatised power market works, what the green energy auction programme has procured, why…
