Overview

The Asia Pacific region is an increasingly important market for renewable energy. Over the next decade, the manufacturing of products and equipment for the industry will increasingly shift to Asia. Asia Pacific’s renewable energy markets will also become an important region for investment.

Renewable energy has moved to the forefront of the political arena globally. Clean energy is now viewed as critical to the economic future of major economies. President Obama has recently called for the USA to take the lead in the clean energy industry. In Australia we have seen a change in leadership which many commentators attribute directly to climate change and energy issues. The Australian government has left the door open for a change in the direction of its policies for the sector as it heads to the next election. Significantly for the Australian energy market, recent amendments to the Renewable Energy Target scheme are expected to create greater business certainty for investment in large-scale renewables projects.

Norton Rose has researched the current provisions and use of renewable energy across the Asia Pacific region and is making the detailed findings available in this new reference manual, Renewable energy in Asia Pacific.

It looks at the mature regulatory frameworks in place in Australia, Japan and Korea, where project risk profiles will broadly match those of Europe. It also looks at the emerging renewables opportunities in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, and the key regulatory, legal and grid and supply obstacles facing these jurisdictions.

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