ENERGY TRANSITION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: SOLVING
Structuring of the offtake agreements is likely to be particularly important for energy storage projects and will require a different approach than those for solar and wind projects.
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And as solar is abundant in all AMSs, it is incumbent upon ASEAN to deploy large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) with battery storage, which this study accordingly thoroughly analyzes, as previously mentioned.
ASEAN's energy supply was 616 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) in 2017, and it is expected to grow to 2006 Mtoe by 2060 in the BAU or Baseline scenario, per Fig. 3 and Table 1. Coal, oil, and natural gas accounted for approximately 80.06% in 2017, and are forecast to reach 85.09% in 2060 in the BAU scenario. Source Authors' calculations
Notwithstanding, some crucial obstacles remain to deploying wind and solar at scale, the largest ones being that they are intermittent and require battery support and backup from other renewable sources to prevent blackouts, and that their deployment costs are much higher than other resources such as thermal and coal.
Structuring of the offtake agreements is likely to be particularly important for energy storage projects and will require a different approach than those for solar and wind projects.
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