JAKARTA: Indonesia is likely to delay plans to raise bio-content in palm oil-based biodiesel to 40%, and keep going with an already ambitious 30% content, a senior official said, amid speculation that low crude prices could force a government re-think. The biodiesel programme is a key part of the government’s strategy to soak up excess supplies […]

SINGAPORE: The National Environment Agency (NEA) launched a S$1.76 million food waste fund on Thursday (May 7) as part of its efforts to tackle climate change. The fund aims to help organisations subsidise the cost of installing food waste treatments solutions. Capped at S$100,000 per applicant, it will cover the capital cost of waste treatment systems, accompanying equipment like […]

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s ministry of economic affairs is set to discuss how the country will continue its ambitious biodiesel programme, a ministry official told Reuters on Wednesday. The economic affairs ministry will meeting on Wednesday to decide the government’s next moves to ensure the continuity of a mandate which requires biodiesel to have 30 per cent bio-content (B30) made […]

As the world seeks to devise technological solutions for sustainable energy production and ways to combat the threat of climate change, an important topic emerging within this area is bioenergy. Bioenergy is renewable energy produced by living organisms, and photosystems found in plants, cyanobacteria, algae, and other living organisms are promising sources for bioenergy harvesting […]

Embassy of Finland published an official statement regarding the latest project to support Thang Long Energy Joint Stock Company with EUR 110 000 to study the Environmental and Social Impacts of large-scale Waste-to-Energy Plant in Bac Ninh Province, Vietnam. The Fund for Local Cooperation (FLC) Application and Funding was approved after detailed consultations and several rounds […]

Singapore’s National Environment Agency has presented a Letter of Acceptance for the development of a waste-to-power plant and a materials recovery facility at the country’s new Tuas Nexus IWMF Phase 1. The Letter of Acceptance was issued to a Keppel-led consortium for the project’s EPC contract, which is worth more than $1.5 billion. The Integrated Waste Management Facility […]

Indonesia’s palm oil exports, including oleochemicals and palm oil kernel, dropped nearly 19 percent in the January to February period driven by lower exports to China as the coronavirus pandemic took a toll on the country’s top export commodity

The National Environment Agency (NEA) has awarded a Keppel-led consortium a $1.5 billion engineering, procurement and construction contract to develop facilities for a new integrated waste management plant in Tuas.

Indonesia and Malaysia are looking to shore up demand domestically and in China, with the EU having changed course away from biofuels.

Vietnam needed to develop policies to encourage investments in waste-to-energy, also called bioenergy, which would significantly contribute to protecting the environment, experts have said.