{"id":1927,"date":"2016-02-25T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T08:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2016-02-25T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T08:58:59","slug":"aseans-special-role-in-managing-energy-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/aseans-special-role-in-managing-energy-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN&#8217;s special role in managing energy decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0chronic shortage of electricity and the threat this poses in slowing economic growth in the Mekong Region could be eased by accelerating ASEAN&#8217;s plans to create a regional power grid. Cross-border electricity swaps, particular in hydropower, are growing as the 10-country bloc creates the ASEAN Economic Community, which came into force at the end of 2015. However, damming the Mekong River has\u00a0caused widespread controversy in Southeast Asia, such as the Lower Sesan 2 dam on the Mekong River in Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p>The following video, produced by the Vietnam News Agency, includes images from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/2015\/11\/the-new-mekong-changes-and-expectations\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The New Mekong: Changes and Expectations,<\/a>&#8221; a\u00a0seminar co-organized by PanNature and Stimson Center.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QPAJOxt14Ho\" width=\"600\" height=\"337.5\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mekong countries\u2019s chronic shortage of electricity which threatens to stymie economic growth, could be eased by pushing for acceleration of plans by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for a regional power grid. Cross-border electricity swaps are growing as the 10-country bloc moves towards the goal of a single market by the end of 2015. And hydropower is among those plans. However, Damming the Mekong River can causes widespread controversy in South East Asia. Lower Sesan 2 dam on Mekong river in Cambodia is a typical example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[56,55,51],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-dams","tag-hydropower","tag-mekong","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}