Power Sector Vision 2050: Toward 100% Renewable Energy by 2050 - Greater Mekong: Power Vision Overview (Regional Report Part 1)

Greater Mekong countries have a unique and timely opportunity to become leaders in clean, renewable electricity. Renewable energy sources such as sun, wind, water, geothermal, biomass, and ocean energy abound in the region. Choices made in the coming months and years present opportunities for regional leaders to follow one of two paths: either leapfrog and embrace the best clean, renewable technologies now, or continue an overreliance on heavily polluting, high carbon fossil fuel power generation, non-sustainable hydropower projects or a dependence on risky and costly nuclear power. Today, about 50 million people do not yet have access to reliable electricity in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos. The region is mostly dependent on hydropower, gas, and coal. Each of the Mekong countries has a power development plan based mainly on large scale hydropower or coal power, or both. This report shows that another future is possible, where a diverse mix of renewable sources can meet nearly all of the region’s electricity demand for all of its citizens by 2050.

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