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Country report
Oct 2017
Southeast Asia Energy Outlook 2017
…consumption patterns. But they share a common challenge to meet rising demand in a secure, affordable and sustainable manner.There are many encouraging signs: countries across the region have made major efforts in recent years to upgrade policy frameworks, reform fossil-fuel consumption subsidies, increase regional co-operation and encourage greater investment in the region’s considerable renewable energy potential.But much more remains to be done. Access to modern energy is incomplete. With a total population of nearly 640 million, an estimated 65 million people remain without electricity and 250 million are reliant on solid biomass as a cooking fuel. Investment in…