Theme: Smart, Connected, Secure: Shaping ASEAN’s Energy Security Landscape
As Southeast Asia experiences rapid economic growth and rising energy demand, energy security has become a defining priority for the region’s sustainable development. Furthermore, ASEAN countries face the dual challenge of ensuring reliable energy supply while advancing ambitious decarbonisation goals.
This event aims to explore three pivotal pillars shaping ASEAN’s energy security outlook: strengthening regional interconnectivity, leveraging digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence for smarter systems, and securing LNG supply chains in an evolving global landscape.
The ASEAN Power Grid represents a key regional initiative to promote cross-border electricity trade, enhance grid resilience, and optimise renewable integration. Artificial intelligence and advanced digital tools offer powerful solutions for managing increasingly complex energy systems, improving forecasting, efficiency, and system reliability. At the same time, LNG is expected to play a growing role in regional energy security, particularly in a context of growing share of variable energy sources and domestic production decline. Reliable and diverse supply will be critical.
By bringing together policymakers from the region, international partners and representatives from IEA member countries, this event will provide a platform for dialogue, knowledge exchange and forward-looking strategies to secure ASEAN’s energy future. The forum outcome will directly feed cooperation strategies between the countries in ASEAN and the IEA in particular through the actions of IEA’s Regional Cooperation Centre.