When talking about the Energiewende, observers tend to look to Germany and Western Europe as pioneers. Robert Brückmann argues that we need to broaden our attention, as more and more countries around the world restructure their power generation – and gives South East Asia as a convincing example. The current debate on the German energy transition – Energiewende – is missing an important point because it is too focused on the situation in Germany and, in some aspects, in Europe. Developments in other countries outside of Europe have been largely ignored. This is somewhat surprising as an increasing number of markets in South East Asia have picked up at an accelerating speed, partly due to the effects of the German Energiewende. News from the region in recent months has highlighted many encouraging examples: in July 2013, for example, the Thai administration introduced policy packages for a new feed-in tariff of solar power. One month earlier, the Indonesian government put a similar regulation into effect. And the Philippine government recently published additional legislation to enforce a … Continue reading Energiewende – let's look beyond Europe!