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Article: Fuelling Southeast Asia's growth: the energy challenge.(Research Notes)
- Article from:
- ASEAN Economic Bulletin
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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I. Introduction: Demand Outlook
Southeast Asia faces very large growth in energy demand to fuel electricity generation, industrial processes, transport, and households in the coming decades. The Toyko-based Asia-Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC) projects that energy demand in the region (excluding Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar) will double from 252 million tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe) to 525 mtoe between 1999 and 2020 (Table 1). (1) How to best meet this demand poses a range of policy challenges for the region's governments.
Energy supply is a crucial component for economic growth and improving living standards. Governments, therefore, have the ...