Figure 4: The envisioned ASEAN Power Grid (APG) [8]
2025, there will be up to 19,576MW of crossborder power purchase and 3,000MW of energy
exchange through cross-border interconnections.
The integration of ASEAN network will result in net
saving of US$788M and a reduction in installed
capacity totalling to 2,013MW [10].
Challenges in realising ASEAN Power Grid
Despite HAPUA commitment to accelerate the
implementation of APG, the project has not made
impressive progress since its conception in 1997.
To expedite the completion of APG, a number of
challenges have to be urgently addressed and
resolved first.
Cross-border issues are among those requiring
immediate action. In the second meeting of
ERIA Research Working Group in Kuala Lumpur
on April 23 2014, the MOU of APG expressed
concerns on cross-border issues. First, there is
a need for harmonisation of legal and regulatory
framework for bilateral and cross-border power
interconnectivity and trade. Similarly, as individual
ASEAN countries have their own technical
standards or codes particularly in the areas of
Planning and Design, System Operation and
BACKGROUND ON ASEAN
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations,
or ASEAN, was founded on August 8, 1967
in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the
ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration)
by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN,