Existing plans will bump solar and wind power to only 11 per cent of the region’s electricity by 2030, the study added. The world average today is already over 10 per cent, and growing.The world will need solar and wind to generate 40 per cent of its power by 2030 to get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency.The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has also said that keeping climate change in check will require both a sharp increase in renewable power generation and a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels.The Ember report examined energy trends in five Southeast Asia countries — Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines — which accounts for nearly 90 per cent of energy generation in the regional bloc. Clean energy sources studied also include ocean waves, biomass, geothermal and nuclear…
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