The Hanoitimes – Clear polices would greatly help provide a vision with specific targets of renewable energy for both authorities and investors in the road map ahead. Vietnam should make clear policies to advance the development of renewable energy amid growing power demand, according to a group of experts in the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale […]

As a nation made up of 17,000 islands, one of Indonesia’s most challenging problems in the 21st century has been modernizing her electric grid. But now on the island of Siberut, some electricity-starved hamlets are sustainably developing their own energy by relying on a material that has been part of their lives for thousands of […]

SINGAPORE – Companies in the process construction and maintenance industry that provide services to energy and chemicals plants will soon be able to attain recognition if they meet certain productivity benchmarks. A new certification framework will evaluate companies in four areas: how they improve planning and execution through using project management tools; technology adoption; staff […]

NDO – A report on Vietnam energy prospects was announced by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) in collaboration with the Danish Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate, providing an overview of Vietnam’s opportunities and challenges faced in developing sustainable energy. The announcement of the Vietnam Energy Outlook Report 2019 was hosted in Hanoi […]

Backed with the intention to promote new investments in the oil and gas upstream industry, Indonesia’s Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources recently enacted a new regulation 1 to replace the 13-year old regulation on upstream oil and gas data management and utilisation. 2 Among the highlights in the new regulation is the introduction of access proliferation of declassified upstream […]

  KUCHING: The state government has no plans to allocate any incentive for the purchase of hydrogen fuel cell cars in the coming State Budget, said Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg. He pointed out that this was because such cars were imported and therefore under the purview of the federal government, not […]

Singapore is not in a rush to be “ahead of the curve” in adopting “newfangled technologies” said, Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan on Monday (21 October), especially for essential sectors like public transport. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Mr Khaw […]

THE Department of Energy (DoE) has issued a circular that provides a framework for energy storage systems (ESS) to address the growing adoption of renewable energy systems with intermittent supply. In issuing the circular, the agency said it “recognizes the applications and the benefits of ESS as an emerging technology in the improvement of the […]

SERI ISKANDAR: The Energy, Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment Ministry is in the midst of drawing up a new law to hold Malaysian companies and individuals accountable for causing pollution in foreign countries. Its minister Yeo Bee Yin said a policy for the Cross Border Pollution Act is being prepared and would be presented […]

THE Department of Energy (DoE) has asked the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to act on Manila Electric Co.’s (Meralco) permit to operate the 455-megawatt (MW) power plant in Mauban, Quezon to boost the country’s power supply. “I wrote [a letter to the] ERC and I manifested to ERC the importance of it being online because […]