An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop

Energy access is a multidimensional problem that requires collaboration across disciplines and sectors. This Deep Dive Workshop on “Achieving Universal Energy Access in the Asia Pacific Region” will attempt to capture how far development agencies, governments and the private sector have come in solving energy poverty.

Throughout the workshop, both the speakers and the audience will be asked to examine the following questions: “What energy access solutions worked?”, “What remaining problems should we focus on?”, and “How far have we come?”

The Workshop began with an overview of the energy access situation in the Asia Pacific Region and the latest thinking on how governments can achieve their sustainable development goals systematically, at a national scale. It was followed by an expert panel that highlights key areas of innovation that may have profound impact on the uptake and scalability of energy access solutions in Developing Asia. The workshop then discussed the impact of business acceleration and investment facilitation initiatives on the growth of high-impact companies in the energy access sector. Finally, the Workshop concluded with case studies on successful private sector and government interventions that created pathways towards universal energy access.