Table Of ContentAsia’s Energy
Trends and
Developments
Innovations and Alternative Energy Supplies
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Asia’s Energy
Trends and
Developments
Innovations and Alternative Energy Supplies
volume
1
Editors
Mark Hong
Asan Institute for Policy Studies, South Korea
Amy Lugg
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
World Scientific
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Asia's energy trends and developments (in 2 volumes) / [edited by] Mark Hong, Asan Institute for
Policy Studies, South Korea, Amy V.R. Lugg, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.
volumes cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-9814425612 (Set)
ISBN 978-9814425575 (Vol. 1)
ISBN 978-9814425605 (Vol. 2)
1. Power resources--Asia. 2. Energy development--Asia. 3. Energy policy--Asia.
I. Hong, Mark, editor of compilation. II. Lugg, Amy V. R., editor of compilation.
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FOREWORD
This book continues the sterling work published by the Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) of the ISEAS Energy Studies’ Books
series. They are based on lectures delivered at the ISEAS Energy Forum,
which was launched in June 2004, and ended in September 2011, having
organized 135 energy seminars and conferences. This volume also includes
papers contributed by invited writers, who are experts on various energy
issues. These books serve to capture in a permanent book format the
knowledge and data which were delivered in the Forum lectures, and might
serve to help educate and sensitize the public about energy issues, as well
as the persons who for some reason or other, had missed the lectures.
Energy issues, such as energy security, energy efficiency and related
subjects, such as climate change, global warming and global competition
for resources, are still salient on the international agenda. The global
financial crisis serves to underline the key roles that dependable, afford-
able and accessible energy resources play in the global economy. Global
economic recovery would be difficult if oil and gas prices should reach the
spike in energy prices seen in 2008. China’s continuing high growth rates
in the past few years, which have enabled China to play the role of global
economic locomotive at a time when the G3 economies, namely, USA,
EU and Japan were all simultaneously suffering from low growth, also
depend on affordable energy prices.
What is remarkable about this book is the wide range of energy issues
addressed therein. From climate change to clean energy; from energy
innovation to Nano-energy, this volume ranges far and wide. It provides
much useful data and expertise on energy issues. Readers all over the
world might benefit by careful reading of this publication.
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The book concludes with a special section on nuclear energy issues in
Asia. It is important to note that at the time of submission of the nuclear
papers, the Fukushima disaster had not yet happened and it is clear that
since that tragic event, there has been a severe rethink about nuclear
safety.
This section examines the potential role of nuclear power in Asia as a
whole and in some individual Southeast Asian countries. It also describes
the possibilities for cooperation in terms of the regulatory infrastructure
and safeguards that need to be put in place, and soberly assesses all the
various risks involved in building and operating nuclear power plants.
We are happy to contribute to the global debate on energy issues via
this volume and this series. Finally, we would like to thank all contributors
for their immense patience and understanding throughout the publications
process.
Mark Hong & Amy Lugg
Editors
July 2012
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CONTRIBUTORS
Tan Yong Soon was Permanent Secretary for National Climate Change in
the Prime Minister’s Office until his retirement on 1 October 2012, after
35 years in public service. He studied at Raffles Institution and National
Junior College, Singapore, and graduated with a BA (Hons) and an MA
from Cambridge University, an MBA from the National University of
Singapore and an MPA from Harvard University. He also attended the
Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He began
his career in the Singapore Armed Forces and rose to the rank of Brigadier
General before joining the Administrative Service. He has served as
Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Deputy Secretary in the
Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Finance, CEO of the Urban
Redevelopment Authority and Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of the
Environment and Water Resources. He was awarded the Public
Administration Medal (Military) (Gold) and the Public Administration
Medal (Gold). He is married and has two children.
Goh Chee Kiong has been Head of Environment and Clean Energy at the
Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) since 2003. In this
capacity, he leads the development of strategies and promotion of the
cleantech industry, including water technologies and solar energy, which
has been identified as a key growth area for Singapore. He is concurrently
Director of Cluster Development in the multi-agency Environment and
Water Industry Development Council (EWI). Prior to this, Mr. Goh was
Director of the EDB Chicago office from 2000 to 2003 where he managed
the relationship with potential and existing American investors in the
Midwest region.
E-mail: [email protected]
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Hiranmayee Vedam is a commercialisation expert specialising in tech-
nology-based companies in materials, wireless and energy. She combines
her experience in technology, business, IP and finance to provide venture
capital companies and SMEs with deal sourcing, due diligence and busi-
ness development services. She provides strategic policy support to gov-
ernments and maintains the Singapore Nanotechnology Ecosystem Map
as part of the SingNano initiative. She also provides interim management
and project management support to young startups in the nanotech space.
She has authored multiple reports, journal articles and book chapters. She
has organised seminars on the Singapore nanotechnology landscape and
has been a speaker at nanotech conferences. Prior to her current role,
Hiran was a senior manager at the National University of Singapore
(NUS) Industry Liaison Office. There, she was involved in spinning off
companies, licensing technologies to commercial companies and in busi-
ness development activities to promote collaboration between NUS and
the industry. She consolidated NUS’s nanotechnology capabilities and
championed the setting up of a proof-of-concept centre for nanotechnol-
ogy, which in its modified form is part of the NanoCore group at NUS.
Prior to joining NUS, Hiran founded and managed MAtrika Pte. Ltd., a
wireless applications company. There, she developed a location tracking
product by securing angel funding. She was a programme manager at
Honeywell Singapore Technology Centre where she was employee num-
ber one and managed relationships with business units, academic institu-
tions and government funding agencies. While there, she also established
the Asia-Pacific abnormal situation management consortium with several
petrochemical companies in the Asia-Pacific region. She has been work-
ing in Singapore for more than 10 years. She has an MBA from INSEAD,
a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and a BTech in
Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
E-mail: [email protected]
Geoffrey C. Nicholson was born in 1938 in Co. Durham, England and
attended Grammar School in Houghton-le-Spring. He was awarded his
PhD degree in Chemistry from Imperial College London in 1963.
With employment very limited, and the space race being on, he became
part of the brain drain and joined 3M in 1963 in Minnesota, USA. After
several years in 3M’s Central Research Laboratories, he was appointed
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to positions in the company’s Visual Products and Commercial Tape busi-
ness units. In the latter, he was instrumental in the development of 3M’s
highly successful Post-it Notes and the subsequent line of Post-it prod-
ucts. The Chairman of the Board and CEO of 3M described him as the
“Father of the Post-it Note Program” long before the program reached its
potential of some several hundred thousand dollars in sales. He was then
appointed to a succession of international assignments, including Vice
President, 3M International Technical Operations, which included the
establishment of extensive laboratories in more than 25 countries such as
the UK, Germany, Japan, Singapore, China and India. Geoff was respon-
sible for the activities of more than 2,500 technical people around the
world. After retirement in February 2001, Geoff has been involved with
some startup companies as well as various publications such as In Search
of Excellence, Built to Last and Breakthroughs.
E-mail: [email protected]
Erik Knive is Executive Vice President (EVP), Asia, for Statkraft Norfund
Power Invest AS (SN Power). SN Power is a significant international
hydropower and renewable energy company and is a commercial investor,
developer and operator of renewable energy and hydropower projects in
emerging markets. As EVP, Asia, Knive is responsible for all operational
entities and business development in Asia, as well as global support func-
tions managed through the Singapore corporate entity. Knive has compre-
hensive executive experience from Norconsult Telematics and Teleplan,
having been responsible for global business development and all European
and Asian operations. He has a GMP from Harvard Business School and
holds a BSc from the University of New Orleans.
E-mail: [email protected]
N. A. Orcullo, Jr. is an academic and researcher with long-experience on
energy matters, particularly on the renewable energy sector in the
Philippines and the ASEAN region having been previously connected
with the Department of Energy. On various occasions, he has rendered
services to various international organizations which include serving as
Research Fellow with the Singapore-based Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies (ISEAS), consultancy engagements with Bangkok-based United
Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
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