this can be achieved through a variety of measures such as improved forecasting more rapid scheduling ancillary services and demand response and storage greater focus must be placed on building national technical capabilities in asia and the pacific for more sophisticated grid management more attention must also be directed towards establishing institutional arrangements and coordination between grid balancing authority areas including crossborder coordination through multilateral market integration unevenly distributed regional renewable energy could be delivered more broadly while wider balancing areas can be created to enable an increased uptake of renewables