Harnessing Wind Energy Potential in ASEAN: Modelling and Policy Implications

Youngho Chang () and Han Phoumin
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Han Phoumin: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta 10270, Indonesia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 8, 1-14

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: wind energy; power trade; counterfactual scenario; ASEAN (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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