Ingenieur Vol 61 January-March 2015 | Page 53

A SEAN, has for many years envisaged having its own integrated regional power network. Blessed with abundance of natural resources, the ASEAN Power Grid (APG) is the key infrastructure that will enable efficient utilisation of indigenous resources for power generation among the ASEAN countries. Mooted in 1997, the APG however experienced almost a stagnant growth due to multitude of reasons. National impediments to promotion of power trade and the electricity industry restructuring and evolution into a single power market are among the barriers hindering the pursuit of the APG [1]