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RPR-2011-17 - ERIA

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CHAPTER 1The Electricity Sector Leads Energy Market Integration inEast Asia: IntroductionYANRUI WUUniversity of Western Australia, AustraliaXUNPENG SHIEconomic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (<strong>ERIA</strong>)FUKUNARI KIMURAEconomic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (<strong>ERIA</strong>)Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Japan.Electricity market integration in East Asia is an important component of theenergy market integration (EMI) initiatives supported by the East Asian Summit(EAS) member countries. It is argued that an integrated East Asian electricity marketwould allow consumers to have access to competing suppliers within and beyondborders and enable electricity providers in member economies to deal with peakdemand and supply security better. Electricity market integration within the EASarea has made some progress with the Greater Sub-Mekong Region (GMS) as theforefront of changes. The proposed ASEAN Power Grid (APG) has also beenimplemented gradually. However, electricity market integration within the EASeconomies remains a challenging task. While physical infrastructure is oftenexpensive and financially demanding, institutional development is more importantand complicated since it is closely linked with market liberalization and regulation.To gain a better understanding of the issues involved and follow two previous<strong>ERIA</strong> projects, this EMI project focuses on the electricity sector. In this introductorychapter, we first describe the objectives of this study in Section 1. The main findings1

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