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SIPET aims to create a community of energy transition stakeholders in the region to encourage knowledge SHARING and collaboration. Each month, we feature brief interviews of SIPET community members actively working to reduce the impacts of climate change and accelerate the transition towards clean, affordable, and secure energy for Southeast Asia.
These interviews highlight SIPET members’ work, what they consider milestones, what they are most proud of, and how SIPET can help.
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Angelica is the CASE Project Lead for the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), a Philippine-based international non-government group advancing fair climate policy and low-carbon, climate-resilient development. ICSC is engaged with the international climate and energy policy arena and is the Philippines’ local expert organization for the CASE for Southeast Asia.
A large part of Angelika’s work in the past years has focused on energy policy. She has been involved in research on off-grid island electrification, stranded coal assets, and carbon pricing. Angelika also engages with energy policymakers and stakeholders to support dialogues on low-carbon development and accelerate the energy transition within the Philippines and regionally. She also works as an analyst of the climate finance team to support the development of the team’s climate finance accountability work on energy and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been felt across all shores and in just about every industry. The energy market is no different, and was particularly impacted early on in the pandemic.
The economic contraction that followed various national and international lockdowns saw growth in the industry grind to a halt. One study estimated a decline in global energy demand by about 5% by the end of 2020. Similarly, demand for oil was predicted to shrink by 9% and gas by 4%.
However, it’s not all bad news. Despite sharp declines in electricity demand in places such as Europe and India, there are signs of recovery as the pandemic rumbles on. In India, for example, electricity demand in September 2020 was 3.4% above the previous year.
This interactive chart shows the share of primary energy that comes from hydropower.
Note that this data is based on primary energy calculated by the ‘substitution method’ which attempts to correct for the inefficiencies in fossil fuel production. It does this by converting non-fossil fuel sources to their ‘input equivalents’: the amount of primary energy that would be required to produce the same amount of energy if it came from fossil fuels. We look at this adjustment in more detail here.
In 2019, around 7% of global energy came from hydropower.