Policy Brief for ASEAN Power Utilities and Stakeholders: The Value of Data Sharing and Transparency in Driving Multilateral Power Trading under the ASEAN Power Grid

Highlights

• Experience has shown that data sharing is one of the key enabling factors for successful cross-border power trading (and for initiating future multilateral power trading).
• Key Recommendations:
  • Map and identify the gaps in the current practice of data sharing under the existing cross-border trading or multipower trading (MPT), and establish a stepwise data-sharing framework for ASEAN
  • Develop clear guidelines and standards for data sharing in the pursuit of expanding MPT
  • Establish a data-sharing framework implement it as a practice and adapt it as the MPT evolves. A piloting exercise would be beneficial to shape the framework and guidelines which will evolve depending on the needs and stages of MPT.
  • Increase stakeholders’ (i.e. the developing partners’ and international donors’) awareness of the investment opportunities arising from supporting the development of the data-sharing infrastructure, in both technical and financial aspects.