01st September 2021, delhi

We invite you as our special guest to attend the LIVE webinar on “Cross Border Energy Trade and Energy Security for South Asia”, to be held on September 1, 2021 (11:00am – 12:30pm, IST).

The webinar is the inaugural event in the four-part webinar series being organized by USAID’s South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy Integration (SARI/EI) program implemented by Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), a reputed think tank in South Asia, in partnership with Power Line, the leading energy magazine in South Asia. The series of four webinars focuses on the broad theme of “Accelerating Cross Border Energy Trade to Transition towards an Energy Secure South Asia”.

The 90-minute webinar will discuss the technological, economic, environmental, and social benefits of CBET; the key drivers and enabling factors towards trilateral and multilateral power trade; the need for creating regional forums for increasing CBET; the international experience and the lessons we can draw from it for South Asia; the key issues and challenges to CBET, and how these can be addressed.

The webinar is targeted at policymakers, regulators, government agencies, gencos, transcos, discoms, power trading organisations, market operators, think tanks, multilateral agencies, consultants, power sector experts and other relevant stakeholders representing Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.