KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 — Malaysia is set to maximize the potential of its green industry and renewable energy sector in 2020 to attain its objective of becoming South-east Asia’s green technology hub in the near future. The commitment was spelt out by Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister Yeo Bee Yin who […]

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is studying various methods of power management and distribution, both domestically and abroad, in response to changes in electricity usage. Patana Sangsriroujana, Egat’s deputy governor for strategy, said the agency visited several kinds of multifunctional power plants that not only produce power but also help store and manage […]

The Downstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency (BPH Migas) has fixed next year’s allocation of subsidized fuels at 26.87 million kiloliters (kL), up 3 percent from last year, following a meeting with House of Representatives members last week BPH Migas said in a statement on Monday that next year’s subsidized fuel allocation consisted of diesel […]

KUCHING: There are new lessons for Sabah to learn from hydroelectric power projects in Sarawak’s interior areas that serve as catalysts to stimulate rural development other than development of coastal areas.This prong of rural development will cover Sarawak interior areas of Bakun, Murum, Bengoh, Baram, Tunoh and Baleh as accelerating Sarawak’s economic growth potentials is in […]

Leaders of central Thua Thien-Hue Province affirmed thermal power was not part of its industrial development outlook. To accommodate the province’s “green-clean-sustainable” initiative, Thailand’s Banpu Corp had proposed to convert related thermal power research to wind power, Phan Thien Dinh, the province’s vice chairman, said Wednesday. In 2016, local authorities had signed a memorandum on […]

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has proposed a new feed-in tariff 32 percent lower than the earlier incentive rate. It wants a fixed rate of 7.09 cents per kWh, down from the 9.35 cents offered to projects completed before June 30 last year, it said in a recent proposal to the government. The new […]

Vietnam will have to import 12 million tons of coal in 2020 to avoid electricity shortage due to increasing demand in electricity and rapidly growing economy. This situation was predicted by Denmark’s energy industry reflected from data of energy report in November 2019. Norway also suggested alternative clean energy such as liquid natural gas and […]

With high anticipation that the Philippines will eventually have a reboot of its gas industry into a market catered to by imported liquefied natural gas (LNG), the Department of Energy (DOE) is also stepping up on its learning process when it comes to policies and regulation frameworks of the changing landscape of global gas markets. […]

As its oil production continues to plummet, gas has become an opportunity for Indonesia to meet its energy demand. Therefore, gas is no longer being treated as a source of revenue for Indonesia, but as a key driver of its economy and industrial growth. Data from The Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force […]

In March last year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) launched the fifth edition of their Energy Transition Index (ETI), ranking 115 economies on how well they are able to balance energy security and access with environmental sustainability and affordability. The report considered both, the current state of the countries’ energy systems as well as their readiness […]