{"id":3779,"date":"2016-10-26T11:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T04:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2016-11-02T11:50:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T04:50:45","slug":"asean-japan-collaboration-to-support-apg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/2016\/10\/26\/asean-japan-collaboration-to-support-apg\/","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN \u2013 Japan Collaboration to Support APG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Kuala Lumpur, 26 October 2016) Working Group 5, chaired by Malaysia, in collaboration with Japan Electric Power Information Center (JEPIC) organised a-three-day program\u00a0on ASEAN Power Grid Initiative in Hotel Grand Millennium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 24 &#8211; 26 October 2016. With the theme of <strong>\u201c<em>System \u2013 to \u2013 System interconnection and the ASEAN Power Grid Initiative<\/em>\u201d<\/strong>, the symposium was a media for both sides to exchange knowledge and practice.<\/p>\n<p>In the circumstance of growing demand of electricity, chronic power supply shortage, rapid growth of renewable energies and high necessity of energy security, electric power interchange between regions and\/or countries is one of technical topics which should be addressed.\u00a0 Effective and sufficient power interchange will be attained by robust interconnections between systems.\u00a0 In this regard, ASEAN countries are currently tackling with the ASEAN Power Grid Initiative, of which importance has been reaffirmed in the HAPUA Council Joint Statement 2015.\u00a0 In Japan, on the other hand, although there is no interconnecting system with surrounding countries and regions, the system is divided into semi-independent regional systems, almost all of which are mutually interconnected.\u00a0 In order to enhance regional interconnections, the Organization for Cross \u2013 regional Coordination of Transmission Operators (\u201cOCCTO\u201d) was established in April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium was opened by TNB\u2019s General Manager of HR Shared Service Center, Ms. Rohana binti A. Rahman and JEPIC\u2019s Director Division No. 2 Research Department, Mr. Hideo Suzuki. Attended by 44 delegates from TNB, JEPIC, APGCC, EDL, EGAT, EVN, SEB, and SESB, the symposium enabled all delegates to share knowledge on technical and commercial aspects of interconnection system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Kuala Lumpur, 26 October 2016) Working Group 5, chaired by Malaysia, in collaboration with Japan Electric Power Information Center (JEPIC) organised a-three-day program\u00a0on ASEAN Power Grid Initiative in Hotel Grand Millennium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 24 &#8211; 26 October 2016. With the theme of \u201cSystem \u2013 to \u2013 System interconnection and the ASEAN Power Grid Initiative\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[34,35,36],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage-article","category-news","tag-apg","tag-events","tag-external-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3786,"href":"https:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/3786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hapua.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}