MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has given his nod to the Department of Energy’s plan to explore and develop the country’s offshore wind (OSW) potential as a source of clean and sustainable energy, Malacañang announced Wednesday.

SINGAPORE – Safeguards introduced from 2023 to help Singapore withstand significant volatilities in the global energy market will incur “higher costs”, said Second Minister for Trade and Industry Tan See Leng in Parliament on Tuesday.

State-owned electricity firm PT PLN has officially aborted the plan to migrate LPG stoves to electric stoves. Darmawan Prasodjo, the company’s president director said the program cancellation was aimed at maintaining public convenience during the economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three government-approved LNG import terminal projects in the Philippines are expected to begin commercial operations in early 2023, marking the birth of the country’s liquefied natural gas industry, a senior energy official said on Tuesday.

Power plants in Luzon are back to normal operation Monday after Super Typhoon “Karding” hit over the weekend, raising the storm signal in Central Luzon to Signal No. 5.

New laws are needed to curb carbon dioxide emissions in order to boost government efforts to promote clean energy, says the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI).

THE Department of Energy (DOE) and the University of the Philippines Statistical Center Research Foundation Inc. (UPSCRFI), through its Gas Policy Development Project (GPDP), have completed the Natural Gas Development Plan (NGDP) that would help guide regulators, policymakers, and investors on the development of the Philippine Downstream Natural Gas Industry (PDNGI).

The SOEs Ministry inaugurated PLN as a holding company with four subsidiaries—or sub-holding—as part of the company’s restructuring, today, September 21. The launching event was held in Jakarta.

Malaysia aims to grow the electric vehicle market share to 38% by 2040 through the Low Carbon Nation Aspiration (Aspirasi Rendah Karbon) 2040, which is part of the National Energy Policy 2022-2040 (Dasar Tenaga Negara, or DTN) that was announced yesterday.

Malaysia has set a goal to raise the country’s annual average gross domestic product (GDP) by RM13 billion with the implementation of the National Energy Policy 2022–2040.