The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) have collaborated extensively for a decade on regional and global energy priorities. ASEANIEA collaboration has spanned all aspects of the energy system, across all fuels and all technologies, including technical assistance and analysis on key topics such as energy security, power supply reliability and trade, renewables, technology innovation and energy efficiency.

This relationship was formalized with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in September 2011 in Bandar Seri Begawan. ASEAN and the IEA have worked together since then, with Singapore as the Country Coordinator for ASEAN-IEA energy cooperation on the implementation of activities set out in the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) 2010-2015, and the APAEC 2016-2025, including the ASEAN-IEA Capacity Building Roadmap on Energy Investments and Financing in 2018. More than 40 activities and initiatives in the areas of energy security, energy efficiency, clean energy, energy investments and decarbonisation were implemented since 2011.

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