New podcast episode explores Southeast Asia’s growing energy importance

A new episode of the IEA podcast Everything Energy looks at how Southeast Asia is increasingly shaping global energy trends.

Now available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, the episode features Sue-Ern Tan, Head of the IEA's Regional Cooperation Centre in Singapore. From the Agency's first office outside its Paris headquarters, she explains why Southeast Asia is poised to play a crucial role in the world's energy future, highlighting the region's fast-growing energy demand and its key role in supply chains for energy technologies. While exploring the opportunities and the challenges ahead, she also outlines what countries in the region need to achieve their energy goals - from increased access to financing to greater investment in electricity grids.

The new version of the IEA's Everything Energy podcast, launched earlier this year, offers fresh insights on wide a range of global energy issues through conversations with IEA experts.

Previous episodes of the podcast cover why global energy demand is surging, the vast potential of geothermal energy, the comeback of nuclear energy, how energy will shape the future of AI (and vice versa), what's next for electric cars and trucks, key energy investment trends, the forces shaping oil markets, growing demand for air conditioning, efforts to expand access to clean cooking, where the world's electricity comes from and petrochemicals.