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In the article “How can southeast Asia's clean energy transition be sped up?”, Daubach (2019) observe that regardless of inexhaustible natural light, air, and water bodies, Southeast Asia is lagging behind in changing from fossil to clean energy production in an era of flourishing economies. Southeast Asia is a region with huge distinctive economies, resource allocation and communities so, Moniz believes that “To bring down emissions, the region must deploy a wide range of low-carbon technologies and solutions in the areas of electricity generation, storage and transfer, and each country must consider its own specific challenges and opportunities." He suggested that for the countries with limited area and natural supplies, instead of building large solar or wind energy production facilities, it is intelligent to use nuclear fusion or hydrogen as a zero-emissions fuel for various needs. Even though nuclear fusion facilities has huge prospect such as it requires less space, waste decomposition is much faster compared to that of nuclear fission facilities and free from discharge of harmful gas but, due to today’s technology and maintenance cost, it is not highly efficient for power production in huge scale according to Chapman. Southeast Asia should not only focus on effective energy production, but it also should concern about effectual utilization which was observed by Wong. 

Southeast Asia is still falling behind in introducing essential energy efficiency measures. To diminish the usage of coal we have to introduce new/alternative ways to generate power. Moniz insists that business and policymaker should unite and decrease the cost of the energy so that the people can change to sustainable energy more swiftly. “One needs to take advantage of the opportunity of literally building an energy infrastructure that will enhance the quality of life as the economy is growing,” said Moniz