Businesses need to accelerate their existing adoption of digitisation, electrification and automation in an effort to curb climate change and gear towards sustainability.

Wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has secured a wind turbine supply contract in Vietnam. As per the terms of the contract, SGRE will provide 25 of its SG 4.5-145 wind turbines to the 113MW Hoa Thang 1.2 wind farm. The facility is situated in the Binh Thuan province, on the South-Central coast of Vietnam.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The government should review the prices of industrial fuels, electricity and gas for businesses given the huge impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the national economy, the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) said. “The high prices of  these commodities are considered very burdensome to the business world, coupled with the weakening of the national economy due to the […]

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called on all sections of society to reduce power consumption to save at least 2 percent annually. The government has warned that ensuring adequate power supply for the next five years would be a challenge. The country now mainly depends on coal-fired power and hydropower. But major dams have kept running out […]

The target date for the trading of power reserves in the spot market would be moved to 2022, the Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP) said over the weekend.

Chinese investors plan to develop a multibillion-dollar oil refinery in Batam, Riau Islands province, an official with the Office of the Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister has said. Maritime and energy sovereignty deputy Purbaya Yudhi Sadhewa told an online press conference on Tuesday that the investors had sent a letter addressed to the Coordinating Minister’s Office, “asking for our agreement […]

Environmental groups urged President Rodrigo Duterte to declare a climate emergency to ensure that the government will act on the climate crisis with the much-needed urgency he has called during the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday.

Indonesian media conglomerate MNC Group on Thursday announced moves to significantly expand its coal business amid expectations of continued high prices for the commodity this year.