The APEC Capacity Building Workshop for New and Renewable Energy Policy (EWG 104 2025A) with the theme, “RE Policies and Investments: Are We on the Right Track?”  held in Bangkok, Thailand on 31 March 2026, provided a platform for peer learning and practical exchange by bringing together experts, policymakers, and practitioners from APEC economies to share implementation experiences, emerging business models, and financing approaches. The workshop was structured around three expert presentation sessions, two fishbowl discussion sessions, and one world café type discussion.

Given the increasing need to promote new and renewable energy and contribute to the global energy transition, doubling the share of modern renewables to energy mix, including in power generation, the policy capacities of members should be built. To achieve this, the project aims to:

• Identify common challenges in implementing new and renewable energy related policies of the member economies;
• Share best practices of the selected case; and
• Propose new ideas to improve the existing or, in case of the absence of any, develop new and renewable energy policies of the member economies.