Current and future hydropower development in Southeast Asia countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar)
Journal article, 2019

This work discusses the development of hydropower in four Southeast Asia countries. With rapid economic development and insufficient energy supply, hydropower, as an important clean energy, plays a bigger role than before. It is shown that hydropower has immense potential and is the best choice to cater for the energy demand in Southeast Asia. In this work, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar are selected to analyze their hydropower development. This work introduces the status of hydropower resources, the current situation of hydropower development and the main distribution of hydropower stations in the four countries. In addition, the paper also introduces some energy policies, the development advantages and obstacles of the four countries, and puts forward suggestions for the future hydropower development of these four countries.

Hydropower

Energy demand

Renewable energy

Southeast Asia

Author

Shengwen Tang

Wuhan University

Nanyang Technological University

Jingtao Chen

Wuhan University

Peigui Sun

Wuhan University

Yang Li

Wuhan University

Peng Yu

Wuhan University

Teresa E Chen

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering

Energy Policy

0301-4215 (ISSN)

Vol. 129 239-249

Subject Categories

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

History of Technology

Energy Systems

DOI

10.1016/j.enpol.2019.02.036

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