Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 02/2013

Sustainable Energy Futures in Southeast Asia

Ernest Z. Bower, Murray Hiebert, David Pumphrey, Gregory B. Poling, Molly A. Walton

December 2012

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Abstract

Potential sales of billions of dollars of energy equipment produced by U.S. companies are at stake in the major economies of the region. They are expected to import as much as $16 billion worth of energy products over the next few years to power their economic growth. But unless the United States launches new initiatives to snare sizable shares of this investment, U.S. companies are unlikely to be major players in all this trade.