KUALA LUMPUR: Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has launched its first solar solution in Malaysia, known as M+ by Petronas, a customisable and affordable solar panels for commercial and industrial use. Petronas executive vice president and chief executive officer of gas and new energy business Adif Zulkifli said M+ marks its progress in supplying clean energy […]

SINGAPORE – Electricity produced by distributed energy resources such as solar installations and energy storage systems in Singapore may soon be coordinated to function like a single power station. This would be made possible by the development of a virtual power plant (VPP) which brings about greater flexibility and scalability to the power grid, the […]

RECOGNISING the importance of using energy efficiently at its operations, ExxonMobil’s Singapore Chemical Plant (SCP) implemented a new technology to enhance energy performance at its aromatics facility. The success of this initiative won ExxonMobil a Best Practices honour at the EENP awards. ExxonMobil has operated in Singapore for over 125 years and holds more than […]

SINGAPORE – A tech centre to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to become more energy efficient will be launched here by the end of this year, said Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources Albert Chua on Thursday (Oct 3). The Energy Efficiency Technology Centre (EETC), which will cost $5 million […]

HCM CITY — To meet its growing demand for energy, Việt Nam, besides exploiting new energy sources, particularly clean energy, needs to further improve energy saving and efficiency, a conference heard in HCM City yesterday. Speaking at the conference titled Development of Energy Efficiency Projects, Nguyễn Thị Lam Giang, director general of the Department of […]

AN energy group is calling on the government to include energy efficiency as one of the resources in charting the country’s energy mix. In a panel discussion during this week’s 2019 Philippine Infrastructure Conference, the Philippine Energy Efficiency Alliance proposed that governments, be it here or overseas, “should slowly move toward incorporating energy efficiency as […]

THE PHILIPPINES should start viewing energy efficiency as a new infrastructure asset class that the government can use as an added resource in planning its energy mix, or the ideal combination of resources to support its power requirements. “We’re not looking at a figure yet. We want to see how — any energy market, whether […]

KUALA LUMPUR: PLUS Malaysia Bhd’s headquarters Persada PLUS has bagged a One Diamond award from Malaysia Sustainable Energy Development Authority’s (SEDA) 2018 Low Carbon Buildings Assessment recently. PLUS became the first highway concessionaire in the country to receive such award. The company said the recognition was given to organisations which have successfully implemented electricity consumption […]

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Indonesia’s Agency for Technology Assessment and Application (BPPT) and Seoul-based Green Technology Center-Korea were on the same page over cooperation in green technology through the launch of the Green Technology Partnership Initiative (GTPI). “The GTPI will bring about an improvement in research and development pertaining to green technology under the partnership scheme […]

COMPANIES across various industries and fields grabbed top honours in Malaysia’s 2019 National Energy Awards (NEA) for best practices in energy efficiency and renewable energy (RE). The second edition of the awards received a total of 145 applications, where 77 organisations were qualified to participate in the two broad categories of energy efficiency and RE. […]