Marissa Iskandar / Chief Strategy Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
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Southeast Asian governments and generators have announced dates for leaving coal. Few of those dates appear in the agreements that actually keep plants running, and until they do, early retirement is an intention that nobody has yet been paid to deliver.
Read the essaySoutheast Asian governments and generators have announced dates for leaving coal. Few of those dates appear in the agreements that actually keep plants running, and until they do, early retirement is an intention that nobody has yet been paid to deliver.
Hydrogen and ammonia are often proposed as ways to keep Southeast Asia's thermal plants useful. The arithmetic says the first green hydrogen the region can afford will do far more good replacing the grey hydrogen that fertiliser plants and refineries already consume.
Southeast Asia's cross-border power projects are usually presented as engineering ventures. They succeed or fail on agreements between governments, and private developers should structure, price and govern them on that basis.