Ensuring Smart Power Capacity Choices in Asia: Interview with: Dr. Weerakorn Ongsakul, Associate Professor and Dean, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, a speaker at the marcus evans Power Generation APAC Summit 2012, on the expansion of clean energy in Asia.

1. Ensuring
Smart Power Capacity
in Asia
countries in Asia has created this high How can Asian utilities achieve a
energy demand. The region has over sustainable and environmentally
three billion inhabitants, which is more friendly outcome?
than the US and Europe combined.
We must promote renewable sources of
The Asian market is seeing more and energy. They may be expensive, but
more single buyers enter the electric when you take into consideration the
distribution sector to employ long-term environmental concerns, they are well
power agreements, as they are able to worth it.
accommodate the growth in the
generation space. Asian countries should include the
implementation of clean energy into
Why should utilities consider their governmental policies. This is the
Interview with: Dr. Weerakorn deploying smart technologies? only way to ensure a strong
Ongsakul, Associate Professor and commitment to clean energy. It may go
Dean, School of Environment, Utilities must invest more heavily into against economic growth, but it will
Resources and Development, Asian smart grid technologies. This will give allow them to prosper in the long-term.
Institute of Technology them the power to set accurate prices,
and the public can then respond to that. Energy utilities do not have to wait until
the world runs out of fossil fuels to start
The APAC energy sector is entering a It will also reduce the pressure on the utilising cleaner resources, as it may
time of unparalleled growth and generation capacity, which is becoming already be too late.
opportunity, says Dr. Weerakorn difficult and expensive to expand.
Ongsakul, Associate Professor and
Dean, School of Environment, Resources What power capacity choices should
and Development, Asian Institute of be made to spark the foundation for
Technology. “It is now the time to focus a sustainable and prosperous
on the implementation of clean future?
energy, solar power and renewables,”
he adds. The only way to meet the high growth
We must
A speaker at the marcus evans Power
of demand is through clean coal
generation, solar power and renewable
promote
Generation APAC Summit 2012,
taking place in Macao, China, 28 - 30
energy.
renewable
energy
May, Ongsakul shares his views on how In Thailand, we have been working on a
Asian utilities can achieve a sustainable clean energy programme for the past 20
and environmentally friendly outcome. years, where we are promoting more
efficient coal generation and renewable
There is an unprecedented demand sources of energy in all industries. This
for power supply in Asia, how can is a continuous process, but with the
utilities reach this target? increasing price of crude oil, climate
change and environmental concerns, we
The economic growth of emerging have no other choice.

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