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Huge potential for clean energy held up by slow integration of South-east Asian grids
Politics and zero-sum thinking are getting in the way.
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The race among South-east Asian countries to acquire clean energy sources has also made the situation more complex.
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BANGKOK - Vientiane is hardly a noisy city on any given day, but a recent development is helping to keep the decibels down. More ride-hailing service drivers in the Laotian capital are using quiet electric vehicles, relying on the country’s plentiful hydropower rather than more expensive imported petrol.
Until June, this hydropower was making its way to Singapore via transmission systems in Thailand and Malaysia. But the two-year-old Lao PDR-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration Project (LTMS-PIP)
