Cross-Border Integration of Renewable Energy Systems: Experiences, Impacts, and Drivers

Cross-border energy trade and integration of renewable energy are crucial for countries and regions to meet demands, minimize costs, and foster socio-economic and climate stability. This book explores global energy trade models between regions, focusing on India's Northeast region and its potential to harness cross-border energy trade with ASEAN countries. It provides analytical perspectives on drivers, constraints, opportunities, and barriers, and identifies necessary conditions for clean energy trade. The volume is of interest to students and researchers in energy and climate studies, environmental politics, trade, and economics, and international relations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 04 August 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Cross-border energy trade and integration of renewable energy have emerged as crucial for countries and regions to address their energy demands, minimize costs, and promote socio-economic and climate stability in the ever-evolving and unpredictable energy market. This comprehensive volume delves into diverse models of global energy trade between regions, highlighting their benefits and challenges, with a special emphasis on India's Northeast region.

Countries in South and Southeast Asia, including India, Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Bhutan, possess abundant renewable energy resources. This book explores the energy mix of these nations and their endeavors to achieve more integrated markets and renewable energy integration within the region. It emphasizes the potential of Northeast India, owing to its rich natural resources and strategic location, to leverage cross-border energy trade with ASEAN countries. The volume offers analytical perspectives on drivers, constraints, opportunities, and barriers to energy security, while also proposing measures to address institutional, financial, policy, and governance issues to minimize the overall costs of energy security and maximize the social-economic benefits for the people in these regions.

Furthermore, it identifies the necessary conditions for clean energy trade, such as grid flexibility, policy, market, and regulatory solutions, and contributes to the growth of low-carbon development and policymaking by focusing on renewable energy integration across borders. This volume is of interest to students and researchers in energy and climate studies, environmental politics, trade, and economics, as well as international relations.

The book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.taylorfrancis.com, under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032562513