Asean faces key challenge: Go green or choke on air pollution, says US energy specialist
SINGAPORE – Increasingly foul air from rapidly growing cities and industry could force South-east Asian nations to speed up the switch to cleaner sources of energy and to meet UN climate goals, says a leading energy specialist. Dr Ernest Moniz, energy secretary under former US President Barack Obama, said Asean is poised for rapid economic […]
Asean moves one step closer to power integration
SINGAPORE is set to ink an agreement with Laos, Thailand and Malaysia at an Asean meeting next month to advance cooperation on cross-border power trading, Second Minister for Trade and Industry Tan See Leng said on Monday.
Asean power grid – option for S’pore to source green energy
Clean or renewable energy usually tops the list of changes the world can implement to stave off the worsening effects of climate change.
Asean’s Power Landscape Expected to Transform in 2019
Jakarta. Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are on a path to transform their power landscapes as energy demand continues to rise to match the region’s economic growth potential, a power management company said this week. “In the pursuit of a robust digital economy, Asean is heralding in an era of unprecedented […]
ASEAN’s future power source
The gears of industry would not turn if not for power. In the modern world, we have come to depend on electricity generated from traditional fossil fuel resources like coal. However, amid a global awareness of the dangers of fossil fuels to our environment, we have since embarked on a paradigm shift towards renewable energy. As […]
ASEAN’s Largest Off-Grid Hybrid Microgrid Now Live
The inaugural project in CleanGrid Partners’ $100 million microgrid investment portfolio has gone live in the Philippines. Philippine hillside village. Photo by Daniel Zuckerkandel/Shutterstock.com Installed by the WEnergy Global Fund’s Sabang Renewable Energy Corporation (SERC), the off-grid hybrid microgrid is located in the town of Cabuyagan on the Philippine island of Palawan. It’s the first […]
Asian automakers compete for EV market in Southeast Asia
In late March, the Bangkok International Motor Show was held in Thailand, known as the “Detroit of Asia” due to its high concentration of automobile industries. Companies competed to introduce EVs, demonstrating that the age of the electric vehicle has arrived. At the booth of China’s Great Wall Motor Co., Narong Sritalayon, the managing director […]
Asian Energy Company Bangchak Invests in Enevate’s Fast-Charging EV Battery Technology
California-based Enevate Corp., whose innovative battery technology is addressing extreme-fast charge times for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, announced that Thai energy giant Bangchak, through its Bangchak Initiative and Innovation Center (BiiC), has invested in the company. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190416005308/en/ Enevate aims to make EV charging as fast […]
Asiatic Group subsidiary extends Cambodian energy contract
A UNIT of Catalist-listed engineering group Asiatic Group (Holdings) will keep on supplying power to a state-owned Cambodian electricity company, in an extension inked and announced on Thursday. Indirect subsidiary Colben Energy (Cambodia), which is 85 per cent-owned by Asiatic, has extended a power purchase agreement with Electricite Du Cambodge until Apr 30, 2022. Under […]
Australia gives new priority status to AU$22bn renewable energy export project
An Australian solar-plus-storage project that aims to supply 20% of Singapore’s electricity demand has been marked as a priority initiative by advisory group Infrastructure Australia.