Aurora Insights featured in the South China Morning Post

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The South China Morning Post spoke to our operations director Carlos Pacheco on what the disrupted energy markets resulting from the Iran conflict means for ASEAN’s long-stalled power grid ambitions.

His quotes:

“The Iran conflict is the tipping point, where the conversation has been transformed from operational energy security to national energy security,” said Carlos Pacheco, operations manager at Malaysia-based geopolitical consultancy Aurora Insights.

Pacheco said that Asean’s leaders needed to move the bloc away from its default mode of slow consensus towards something more collective: building shared technical capacity now so the region was ready for the massive capital investment the grid would eventually demand.

“It’s moving from the consensus process to something where they are operating more collectively, then moving to something more attractive for foreign investors,” he said. “It’s upon the politicians to earn their pay.”

Read the full article here.