The electricity sector’s reforms aim to modernise its infrastructure, rules, policies, and procedures to allow for more efficiency and for clean energy to have the same playing field in the power competition/wholesale/retail electricity market. This will enable inefficient power to be phased out gradually. Over the past 2 decades, there has been remarkable progress in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) electricity markets that has increased the electrification ratio substantially; however, it has not achieved free market competition, universal electrification, and emission reduction plans. ASEAN aims to achieve universal access to electricity by 2030.
Electricity Market Reforms in ASEAN, China, India, and Japan provides 10 empirical studies investigating and evaluating the electricity market reforms in Southeast Asia, China, India, and Japan. The book analyses the electricity market policy reform plans, market liberalisation, tariff reform, electricity trade, renewable energy integration, resource allocation, and the sustainability of the electricity market in the region and these countries. It provides policy recommendations to foster the reforms and increase market efficiency.
Dr Han Phoumin is Senior Energy Economist with the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. He has more than 20 years of experience working at various international and inter-governmental organizations and multi-disciplinary research consortiums related to the energy market and technologies, environment, integrated water resource management, governance, and economic development in the region of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and East Asia. He specializes in economic development and policy and applied econometrics. Over the past ten years, much of his career has involved the power sector, incredibly sustainable hydropower development, renewable energy research, energy efficiency, clean coal technology, energy security, and energy demand and supply forecasting.
Dr Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary is an Associate Professor of Economics at Tokai University in Japan. In addition, he is a vice-president and co-founder of the International Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS). He is a recipient of the Excellent Young Researcher status from the Ministry of Education of Japan (MEXT). He is also a visiting professor at Keio University (Japan), the Technology Studies Institute (Iran), Chiang Mai University (Thailand), and a distinguished research fellow at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). Currently, he serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management and as an associate editor/board member of several scholarly journals. His research credits include authoring more than 250 academic journal papers and book chapters and editing 15 books published by Springer Nature, Routledge, World Scientific, and Asian Development Bank Institute. Dr Taghizadeh-Hesary holds a PhD in economics from Keio University with a scholarship from the government of Japan (MEXT).
Prof. Fukunari Kimura is a Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. He is also Chief Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Jakarta, Indonesia, since 2008. He serves as a co-editor of the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies. He specializes in international trade and development economics. He has recently been active in writing academic and semi-academic books and articles on international production networks and economic integration in East Asia.
Dr Rabindra Nepal is an Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Business within the Faculty of Business and Law of the University of Wollongong in Australia. Dr Nepal is an internationally recognized academic and researcher in the areas of energy, environment, and resource and have previously consulted inter-national organizations like the World Bank, the European Commission, the Inter-national Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and the National Research Institute (NRI) of Papua New Guinea. Dr Nepal is widely published in the research areas of energy, resource, and environment with more than 70 journal articles and book chapters in journals like Energy Economics, vTourism Management, The Energy Journal, Energy Policy, Journal of Sustainable Tourism. He has taught a range of diverse subjects in Economics.
