Asia Data Transparency Report 2023

The Asia Data Transparency Report 2023 evaluates power sector data transparency across 39 economies in Asia-Pacific and Central Asia. It finds that over half of the region suffers from poor or insufficient data transparency, which hinders the transition from coal to clean electricity. The report identifies high-performing economies, provides a case study on India's public-private partnership for data aggregation, and offers nine recommendations to improve data governance.

• More than half of the surveyed economies in Asia have poor or insufficient data transparency, which affects the electricity supply and demand data for approximately 684 million people.
• Six economies—India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand—were rated as "good" or "excellent" in their data transparency practices. Notably, half of these high-scoring economies are classified as lower-middle income.
• Asian economies generally perform poorly on publishing lag, geographical granularity, and time granularity, while scoring better on fuel breakdown and ease of access. Specifically, 75% of economies do not provide data in a timely manner, and only 20% provide plant- or unit-level geographical data.
• High-quality temporal granularity is rare in the region; only seven economies (Japan, Australia, Bangladesh, Singapore, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and Georgia) provide hourly data. The most frequent time granularities are yearly (33%) and monthly (26%).
• India has improved its data transparency through a partnership between the government think tank NITI Aayog and the non-profit Vasudha Foundation to create a "one-stop shop" for power sector data, though challenges remain regarding the standardization of metrics and the use of non-machine-readable PDF formats.
• The report proposes nine recommendations to improve data transparency, emphasizing the use of machine-readable formats (xlsx, csv, json) over PDFs, the removal of access restrictions, the implementation of unique identifiers for power plants, and the creation of central data publication locations.

APA

Lee, U., & White, J. (2023). Asia Data Transparency Report 2023. Ember. https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2024/10/Asia-Data-Transparency-2023-PDF-4-MB.pdf

Chicago

Lee, Uni, and Justine White. Asia Data Transparency Report 2023. Ember, 2023. https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2024/10/Asia-Data-Transparency-2023-PDF-4-MB.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{lee2023asia, author = {Lee, Uni and White, Justine}, title = {{Asia Data Transparency Report 2023}}, institution = {Ember}, year = {2023}, month = may, url = {https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2024/10/Asia-Data-Transparency-2023-PDF-4-MB.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }