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From mid-2021 to early-2022, the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University and the Australia – Mekong Partnership for Environmental Resources and Energy Systems (AMPERES) collaborated with 24 researchers from academic institutions, think tanks and civil society organizations to prepare thirteen ‘think-pieces’ that explore the opportunities and challenges to sustainable and just electricity transformation in the Mekong Region.
Each think-piece contributes a layer of evidence and insight to understanding the dynamics of electricity in practice in the Mekong Region, ranging from analysis on the regional scaled plans for electricity trade, to examination of the national level processes on power development planning and its outcomes, to local level opportunities and challenges for decentralized off-grid electricity solutions. The aspiration of this collaborative initiative was not to assemble a consensus report, but rather to gather diverse viewpoints on the opportunities and challenges in attaining ‘sustainable and just electricity transformation’ in the Mekong Region. To this end, the report aims to set out some new terrains for the electricity debate at scales that range from the local to the regional, and is intended to stimulate public debate on the wide-ranging social, ecological and economic implications of electricity planning.
Ember contributed to this report in a think-piece titled “Power connectivity in the Greater Mekong subregion: The need for a wider discourse”, co-authored by Dr. Muyi Yang at Ember, Prof. Deepak Sharma at Asian Institute of Technology, and Prof. Xunpeng Shi and Dr. Kristy Mamaril at University of Technology Sydney.
