Energy Insights

Energy Insights speaks with Liming Qiao, the Asia Director at the Global Wind Energy Council.  Our conversation with Liming Qiao delves into a range of crucial topics. We explore the ambitious goal of tripling renewable energy capacity, the potential supply chain challenges for renewable rollouts in Asia, and the role of governments and the private sector in incentivising secure supply chains. We...

Energy Insights speaks with Sunil Dahiya, an analyst at the South Asia branch of the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). We talk about many topics that revolve around the upcoming Indian election and where energy fits into that picture, including an overview of India's renewable energy capacity right now, how much Modi's BJP government can be credited with spurring clean...

Energy Insights speaks with Farwa Aamer about all things women, energy, and climate change. Farwa is the director of South Asia Initiatives at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. Prior to this, she led research on security, political, and socio-economic dimensions of transboundary river governance in the Himalayan region, along with other issues revolving around water, energy, climate c...

Energy Insights speaks with Afu Utami about the recent Indonesian elections and energy policy in one of Asia’s fastest-growing countries. Afu is one of the founders of the technology-based political education movement Bijak Pemilu. This initiative aims to encourage voters to become politically engaged and educated, and it won the MIT Solve Global Competition in 2023. Afu is also the founder and CE...

In this episode of Energy Insights, we speak with Janna Smith about all things renewables growth, challenges and opportunities in Southeast Asia. Topics include Southeast Asia's renewables potential, where countries are doing well, what countries are leading and the challenges associated with accelerating clean energy growth in the region. Janna Smith is a solar and wind researcher with Globa...

In this episode of Energy Insights, we speak with Ulka Kelkar. Ulka is the Executive Director of Climate at the World Resources Institute India. She is an economist with 24 years' experience in climate change research, outreach, and capacity building. Ulka works on low-carbon development pathways, sub-national climate action, and just transitions in small industry. Previously, she worked on c...

We speak with Katrin Wu about supply chain decarbonisation in the technology sector. We cover topics like what supply chains include, Apple's decarbonisation strategy and its new commitments, how Microsoft and Samsung compare to Apple with supply chain decarbonisation commitment, the price of consumer goods during the energy transition and other topics. Katrin is a climate and energy campaign...

Energy Insights speaks with Liza Osorio from Oceana in the Philippines about the impacts of LNG development on marine ecosystems and communities nearby gas plants. Liza is an environmental lawyer and is the legal policy director of Oceana, Philippines. She is also a professor at the University of Cebu School of Law. She was elected the first Asian Chairperson of the International Union for Conserv...

Energy Insights speaks with Kian Min Low, the Chief Renewables Officer at Malaysian renewable energy company Gentari about all things renewables, Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Other topics include who Gentari is and what kind of projects it's working on, the current state of renewables in Southeast Asia, Malaysia's renewable energy push and net zero goals, Malaysia's energy policy, f...

Energy Insights speaks with Sugandha Srivastav about all things energy poverty and developmental and energy economics. Sugandha is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer in the Environmental Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University. Throughout her career she's focused on designing effective climate policy in low and middle-income countri...

Energy Insights speaks with Paul Martin about all things hydrogen.  Paul is a chemical engineer by training and has an extensive 30-year history with making and using hydrogen and synthetic gas, working as a designer and builder for several pilot and demonstration scale plants for the chemical process industry. Paul is also a lifelong environmentalist and advocate for climate action and decarbonis...

We speak with Susanne Wong and talk about the upcoming G7 Summit in Hiroshima and go over issues related to Japan's insistence on seeing more investments in gas-related infrastructure, the recent G7 energy ministers meeting that took place in Sapporo in the run up to the G7, Japan's foreign energy policy and its impacts on Southeast Asian countries, the problems with an over-reliance of...

Energy Insights speaks with Duncan McLaren on carbon capture technologies and the implications they may have on the future of the planet, along with the technologies propertied promises, drawbacks and other governmental and policy issues such as its mentioning in the recent IPCC synthesis report. Duncan is a postdoctoral Climate Intervention Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at UCLA's Sc...

Carbon offsets have been around for decades. Proponents of carbon offsets have labelled them as essential to see climate finance directed towards regions and communities that need it the most. However, investigations into the validity and effectiveness of carbon offsets have painted a different picture and noted that many carbon offset projects do not make any difference to carbon emissions. This...

In this episode of Energy Insights we speak with Joojin Kim. Joojin is the founder and CEO of Solutions for Our Climate based in Seoul, South Korea. Prior to founding Solutions for Our Climate, Joojin's background was in law where he worked on several energy-related projects as a lawyer for South Korea's largest law firm Kim and Chang. Joojin has also been on the expert committee for the...

In this episode of Energy Insights, we talk about Just Energy Transition Partnerships - what they are, their history and how they can help Asian countries move away from fossil fuel-dominated energy systems that rely on coal, gas and oil. In particular, we focus on Indonesia's recent Just Energy Transition Partnership deal at the G20 summit last November. We look into what the $20 billion dea...

In this episode of Energy Insights, Energy Tracker Asia talks about the ongoing energy price crisis that is engulfing Asia and the rest of the globe.  Topics discussed include where fuel protests broke out across the globe, the energy price crisis in Sri Lanka and how it is affecting everyday people, the political implications of the situation in Sri Lanka, food insecurity and inflation, what is c...

In this episode, we speak with Gerry Arances. Gerry is the founder and executive director at the Centre for Energy, Ecology and Development in the Philippines, also known as CEED. We focus mainly on the skyrocketing prices of gas and Liquified natural gas, or LNG, and how that affects Asia, specifically the Philippines. We also look into how much investment has been made into gas infrastructure be...

In this episode of Energy Insights, we speak with Ulka Kelkar. Ulka is the Director of the Climate Program at the World Resources Institute India. By training, she is an economist with two decades of experience in climate change research. Currently, Ulka is leading the World Resources Institute's work on climate policy that supports India's low-carbon goals across policy and markets with...

In this episode of Energy Insights, Energy Tracker Asia talks to Richie Merzian - the director of climate and energy at the Australia Institute . In today's episode, Energy Tracker Asia and Richie discuss topics around Australia and climate change and its complicated relationship and history with one of the globe's most critical issues. Other topics include the recent federal election in...

In this episode of Energy Insights, Energy Tracker Asia talks to Hemantha Withanage. They speak about the recent multifaceted crisis facing Sri Lanka's people across politics, economics and energy. Topics include a short history of what happened up until this years crisis plateauing, economic mismanagement by government officials, the cause of fuel shortages and who's at fault, the impac...

In this episode of Energy Insights, Energy Tracker Asia talks to Friederike Roder. They speak about the recent G7 summit where leaders of the globe's richest nations decided to invest in gas to shore up global energy supplies amidst global shortages. They also discuss the current energy crisis gripping the world, how more gas investments by the G7 will impact developing countries, German Chan...