Harnessing Wind Energy Potential in ASEAN: Modelling and Policy Implications
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Youngho Chang (a), Han Phoumin (b)
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(a) School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore 599494, Singapore
(b) Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta 10270, Indonesia
This study examines whether and how harnessing more wind energy can decrease the cost of meeting the demand for electricity and amount of carbon emissions in the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, using the ASEAN integrated electricity trade model. Three scenarios are considered: a counterfactual business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, which assumes no wind energy is used; an actual BAU scenario that uses the wind-generation capacity in 2018; and a REmap scenario, which employs the wind-generation capacity from the Renewable Energy Outlook for ASEAN. Simulation results suggest that dispatching more wind energy decreases the cost of meeting the demand for electricity and amount of carbon emissions. However, these emissions increase during the late years of the study period, as the no- or low-emitting energy-generation technologies are crowded out.
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Chang, Y.; Phoumin, H. Harnessing Wind Energy Potential in ASEAN: Modelling and Policy Implications. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4279. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084279
