Cumulative investment in interconnectors by subregion and by country for all interconnections and for grid-to-grid interconnection, 1970-2024
between China and ASEAN member states. For these projects, only the portion of the interconnector on the ASEAN member side of the border is accounted. LAO = Lao PDR; THA = Thailand; VNM = Viet Nam; MYS = Malaysia; IDN = Indonesia; KHM = Cambodia; MMR = Myanmar; SGP = Singapore; PHL = Philippines; TLS = Timor-Leste; BRN = Brunei Darussalam. Source: See Annex A for full methodology and sources used for investment and financial modelling. ASEAN Power Grid North subsystem includes Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, terms of investment and interconnection capacity. Since the 1970s, around USD 1.7 billion or nearly 90% of historical interconnection investment in ASEAN has been related to these five countries. The vast majority has been for neighbouring Thailand and Viet Nam. The next 15 years could see the upgrade of several existing lines and the addition of new, but primarily short distance grid-to-