In this presentation, Mr. Michael Barrow gave an overview of ADB's Pacific Renewable Energy Project. The project encourages private sector investment in renewable energy. It also mitigates short-term liquidity risk, through donor-backed standby letter of credit, and supports long-term investment, through partial risk guarantee.

Hybrid Social Solutions is an organization that is building a gridless solar network in the Philippines to transform rural communities. From diesel and bunker-fueled electricity sources, HSS has been introducing solar-powered products that are not only safe and sustainable but also increase an individual's productivity and capacity to earn more income.

This presentation gave a brief overview of BDO's portfolio in the Philippines' clean energy space. It also discussed some of the bank's strategies in financing sustainable and renewable energy in the country.

The need to find more sustainable options to power demand for personal mobility is greater than ever, and the automotive industry is currently undergoing a big transformation. In this presentation, Mr. Atsushi Najima discussed how electrified mobility can help tackle the continuing challenges of air quality and noise pollution. He also elaborated on the Nissan Intelligent Mobility as a reflection the company's approach in designing and building vehicles, providing the vision to meet the changing demand of customers.​

In this scene-setting presentation, Jennifer Holmgren emphasized the need to re-think the carbon economy, as well as the need to put carbon only where we need to. Her company, LanzaTech, is a carbon recycling company that is working to deploy carbon capture and reuse facilities globally to make fuels and chemicals from waste carbon. She also explained how LanzaTech's technology takes carbon emissions and converts them to ethanol, which can readily be used for other applications.

The Madson Wind System (MWS) & MWS Air-Steel Battery are the biggest improvement in Wind Power ever. MWS harvests Wind Energy as Compressed Air (not as electricity), using Hyper Simplified, very robust, very low cost & very low maintenance Wind Turbines. MWS compresses air in stages providing High Pressure - Compressed Air Energy Storage (HP-CAES), stored in the MWS Air-Steel Battery, a system of many low-cost small steel cells, which can store large volumes of HP-CAES for DoD of electricity instantly.

The high risk and cost associated with exploration and production well drilling is a well-known barrier to exploitation of geothermal energy – a major source of clean base-load power critical for achieving a sustainable future. This is particularly relevant in areas of Asia and the Pacific endowed with abundant geothermal resources, but where scale-up of geothermal power is hampered by high upfront costs. This presentation discussed a solution, using science-based imaging of geothermal flow systems to reduce or eliminate the high sunk-cost of geothermal well drilling decision making.

HDF Energy is an Independent Power Producer dedicated to Clean Firm Power generation called Renewstable® power plants. This presentation discussed the advantages of stable power, the key items required and a case study. Intermittent power can have difficulties to integrate small to medium sized grids, such as many grid islands we see in South-East Asia. Power plants which deliver a firm, stable and dispatchable power will facilitate the integration of renewable energy on small to medium sized grids. Such stable power can integrate up to 80% grid capacity.

Electrification of industrial non-road mobile equipment and passenger electric vehicles, categorically referred to as EVs in this study, are creating new Electricity for All opportunities in rural communities in Asia. These batteries retire when they no longer provide sufficient energy to its expected end-use even though they still maintain 70% or more of its rated capacity. Batteries are the most expensive component of an EV and over the lifetime, it is expected that one full battery refresh will occur, adding a significant amount to the total cost of ownership.

The problem of disruptive technologies is that they are - disruptive, making existing technologies obsolete. This, in turn, triggers resistance from the incumbents as the operators of nuclear and thermal power plants and makes new technologies difficult to reach successful implementation. In the case of solar and wind energy, it has taken decades before the conventional power industry has embraced them, as they will make trillions of dollars of investments in thermal power plants obsolete. To avoid this, an innovative link between incumbents and newcomers is required.