Clean Coal Technology in ASEAN: Balancing Equity, Security & Sustainability

14 September 2021

Key points

The regional availability of coal across ASEAN, its relatively low cost and proven capacity to provide dispatchable baseload power, presents solutions to both security and affordability challenges of the energy trilemma. Since the Paris Agreement, ASEAN economies have increasingly sought to manage sustainability priorities by deploying CCT technologies.

Optimising the role of CCT is proposed as a key factor in facilitating the transition towards sustainable and lower emission development in the region.

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Topics

Coal and Clean Coal Technology

Author

ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) and World Coal Association (WCA)

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