The 30th ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Energy (SOME) took place onJuly 2 in Cambodia, to discuss energy security within the bloc aswell as green energy issues.
On speaking at theopening ceremony, Cambodia ’s Secretary of State for the Ministry ofIndustry, Mines and Energy, Chea Sieng Hong, said that the meeting wasto ensure that by the time ASEAN becomes a single community in 2015, allmember countries will be taking a joint approach to green energy issuesand pooling their resources together.
Hong saidthat the meeting focused on energy security in the ASEAN region anddeveloping green energies because of cost and climate change.
The meeting followed up the organisation’s plan of action for energycooperation during the period 2010-2015, which focuses on an ASEAN powergrid; a trans-ASEAN gas pipeline; clean coal technologies; new andrenewable energies; energy efficiency and conservation and nuclearpower, he said.
Hong also emphasised that these arejust some of the measures that will ensure energy security andsustainability in the ASEAN region.
To reach thesegoals, the bloc needs to step up coordination and cooperation betweenits members and its partners, he said.
Severalmeetings were also held between senior ASEAN energy officials and thebloc’s dialogue’s partners including China, Japan, the Republic ofKorea, Australia, India, New Zealand, Russia, the UnitedStates and the European Union.
The outcome of the30th ‘SOME’ will be submitted to the ASEAN Ministers Meeting on Energy,to be held in September in Phnom Penh.-VNA
On speaking at theopening ceremony, Cambodia ’s Secretary of State for the Ministry ofIndustry, Mines and Energy, Chea Sieng Hong, said that the meeting wasto ensure that by the time ASEAN becomes a single community in 2015, allmember countries will be taking a joint approach to green energy issuesand pooling their resources together.
Hong saidthat the meeting focused on energy security in the ASEAN region anddeveloping green energies because of cost and climate change.
The meeting followed up the organisation’s plan of action for energycooperation during the period 2010-2015, which focuses on an ASEAN powergrid; a trans-ASEAN gas pipeline; clean coal technologies; new andrenewable energies; energy efficiency and conservation and nuclearpower, he said.
Hong also emphasised that these arejust some of the measures that will ensure energy security andsustainability in the ASEAN region.
To reach thesegoals, the bloc needs to step up coordination and cooperation betweenits members and its partners, he said.
Severalmeetings were also held between senior ASEAN energy officials and thebloc’s dialogue’s partners including China, Japan, the Republic ofKorea, Australia, India, New Zealand, Russia, the UnitedStates and the European Union.
The outcome of the30th ‘SOME’ will be submitted to the ASEAN Ministers Meeting on Energy,to be held in September in Phnom Penh.-VNA
