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Why Is Energy Access Not Enough for Choosing Clean Cooking Fuels? Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond

Working Papers
The transition to sustainable energy requires an assessment of drivers of the use of clean and dirty fuels for cooking. Literature highlights the importance of access to modern fuel for switching from dirty fuels. Though access to cleaner fuels such as electricity promotes clean fuel use, it does…

Global Hydrogen Review 2021

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The Global Hydrogen Review is a new annual publication by the International Energy Agency to track progress in hydrogen production and demand, as well as in other critical areas such as policy, regulation, investments, innovation, and infrastructure development. The report examines what…

World Energy Outlook 2021

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The IEA’s new World Energy Outlook makes it clear that the clean energy progress led by solar, and wind is still far too slow to put global emissions into sustained decline towards net zero. And with coal coming back strongly this year and marking the second-largest increase in carbon…

Cross-Border Electricity Trading for Tajikistan: A Roadmap

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This roadmap focuses on assessing the feasibility and extent of electricity trade with Tajikistan’s neighbors and to lay out policy requirements for implementation based on the Tajik context.

The Role of Low-Carbon Fuels in the Clean Energy Transitions of the Power Sector

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This report asserts that a secure and decarbonized power sector requires other flexible resources on a much larger scale than what currently exists today. These include low carbon dispatchable power plants, energy storage, demand response, and transmission expansion. The availability and cost of…

Tracking Clean Energy Progress

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The International Energy Agency is tracking clean energy progress according to the technologies that are currently available. It assesses the gaps between the pronouncements based on the announced pledges scenario (APS) and the net zero emission scenario (NZE) and what needs to be done to get to…

Carbon Capture and Utilization Prefeasibility on Food Grade CO2 in the Refinery Sector in India

Reports and Publications
This report briefly describes the main technology and process options available to refinery companies for capturing CO2 from the various process flue gases.
The knowledge and support technical assistance (TA) cluster will prepare energy system development scenarios and technology road maps and…

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Game Changers in Asia: 2020 Compendium of Technologies and Enablers

Reports and Publications
This compendium showcases new and innovative low carbon technologies that have potential to be deployed in Asia and the Pacific. It features 10 technologies for capturing, utilizing, or storing carbon dioxide.The key aspects of these technologies are discussed together with their advantages and…

Energy Policy: Supporting Low-Carbon Transition in Asia and the Pacific

Reports and Publications
This paper proposes an update to the 2009 Energy Policy—the 2021 Energy Policy—to guide ADB’s energy sector operations. It proposes to focus on those energy operations that are optimally aligned with ADB’s Strategy 2030 and the global commitments that Strategy 2030 supports, including the SDGs, the…

Energy Prices and the Economic Feasibility of Using Hydrogen Energy for Road Transport in the People’s Republic of China

Working Papers
Based on quantitative models that assessed the feasibility of producing hydrogen energy from renewable energy and using it in the road transport sector in the People’s Republic of China, ADBI authors find that the high capital expenditure of fuel cell vehicles, rather than the fuel cost of hydrogen…