Driving context, clarity and credibility for Asia’s energy transition pathways.

Energy Shift Institute is an independent nonprofit energy finance think tank that looks at Asia’s energy transition from within the region.

What we do

Thought leadership

We drive innovation in strategic finance, and policy, while also exploring technology opportunities and risks.

Active market engagement

Stakeholder engagement accompanies our research to understand all perspectives, ambition and implementation challenges and opportunities.

Simplifying the complex

We understand, translate and share intricate and nuanced energy transition insights with our stakeholders.

In the media

Indonesia’s global commodities price-setting ambition risks backfiring

Indonesia doubles down on coal to power its aluminium expansion

Indonesia’s planned mineral exchange may improve nickel price transparency: experts

Three ways the U.S. can promote a new critical mineral model

Our work

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Growing reliance on imported LNG exposes Southeast Asia price shocks, supply disruption and fiscal risk as domestic gas production declines..
New business lines at coal producers remain largely a narrative, with limited evidence of becoming material earnings contributors or reducing coal-linked risks meaningfully...
Without urgent intervention, tailings from nickel HPALs in Indonesia will hit 1.4 billion tonnes by 2035 — enough to cover the whole of Jakarta 1 metre deep...
A decade into nickel downstreaming, Indonesia’s nickel flows remain opaque. Visibility has been very limited on where it actually goes despite hundreds of studies in this field...
Major power utilities in Asia are developing renewable energy while clinging on to fossil fuels.....
The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) published its Climate Transition Bond Guidelines.....