On 20 August, the Independent Evaluation Department received Management Response to its evaluation of the Energy Policy and Program 2009-2019. The sector-wide evaluation report was discussed by the Board’s Development Effectiveness Committee on 27 August and has since been made public online.

This primer presents spaces for just transition in sectors and areas that will be disrupted by the transformation of the energy sector as the world shifts to clean low-carbon order.

Microgrids are poised to play a big role in the electricity ecosystem of the future—with decarbonization, digitalization, decentralization, and non-wires solutions being key attributes. The handbook will assist those working in the energy sector to evaluate a microgrid system's potential to enhance power supply quality and connectivity. It will also contribute to a better understanding of on-grid microgrids in urban and industrial settings, prevailing business models, and emerging trends that could shape the future of this sector.

This handbook serves as a guide to deploying battery energy storage technologies, specifically for distributed energy resources and flexibility resources.Battery energy storage technology is the most promising, rapidly developed technology as it provides higher efficiency and ease of control. With energy transition through decarbonization and decentralization, energy storage plays a significant role to enhance grid efficiency by alleviating volatility from demand and supply. Energy storage also contributes to the grid integration of renewable energy and promotion of microgrid.

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, is the main barrier to achieving competitiveness against alternative power trains.

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 related Financing for Development agenda, and the Paris Agreement on climate change (Paris Agreement).

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 status of development and commercialization. The compendium aims to contribute to low carbon development in the region by promoting further research, innovation, and investment in emerging technologies.

This report briefly describes the main technology and process options available to refinery companies for capturing CO2 from the various process flue gases.

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 net zero emissions.

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 these technologies depend on local conditions, social acceptance, and policies.