JAKARTA, Jan 7 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has decided to keep coal domestic market obligation at 25% and the price cap at $70 per tonne in 2020, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Ministry officials last year said the government was considering lowering the mandatory coal sales to domestic power […]

By 2023, Indonesia’s Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry is looking to stop supplying gas to Singapore via the Suban Blok Corridor Field. This is done so that the gas supply can be diverted back to domestic consumption in Indonesia. “Gas is still abundant in Sumatra. Gas supply to Singapore will end in 2023 and will be […]

BANGKOK: The government is looking into ways of reducing the impact of the United States-Iran conflict with regard to rising oil prices, said Energy Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong. According to the Bangkok Post, state agencies were closely monitoring the situation as any escalation would have a direct impact on fuel prices. “We will update the public on […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 4 — Sustainable Energy Development Authority (Seda) Malaysia has approved a total of cumulative net energy metering (NEM) programme quota of 108MW as of November 2019. Seda Malaysia chairman Wong Kah Woh said the total approved quota portrayed a positive growth of 7.8 times increment, to compare with the previous three years, […]

ASIN, Jan 6 — The government, via the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (Mestecc), aims to raise its net energy metering (NEM) programme output to 300 megawatts (MW) this year. Mestecc Minister Yeo Bee Yin said last year, the Sustainable Energy Development Authority Malaysia (SEDA) approved 102MW under the NEM programme, […]

JAKARTA, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Industry Ministry will put forward a plan for mandatory domestic gas sales to ensure local manufacturers can get cheap supplies after they complained of high prices, Industry Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita said on Monday. The so-called domestic market obligation (DMO) would require gas producers to sell a portion of […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will look into three options to lower the stubbornly high industrial gas price in Indonesia, which has deterred industries from expanding in Indonesia amid a domestic economic slowdown. The options are: introducing a fiscal incentive, creating a domestic market obligation (DMO) or undergoing an import simplification procedure to reduce gas prices […]

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s electricity firm EVN has signed five new deals to buy electricity from Laos starting from next year, the state-run company said. The southeast Asian nation faces severe power shortages from 2021, as demand outpaces construction of new plants, with demand expected to exceed supply by 6.6 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) in […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 4 — The Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC) has unlocked 40 achievements in its three key sectors, namely energy, science and technology, as well as environment, over the past 18 months. In a statement to Bernama today, the ministry said all the 40 achievements were reported by […]

A price cap has to be instituted in the renewable energy certificates (RECs) that shall then be sold via the RE Market (REM) trading layer of the country’s Wholesale Electricity Spot Market. In a draft Circular of the Department of Energy (DOE), it has been set forth that the Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC) “shall […]