Vietnam will soon be embarking on a considerable project, costing more than US$100 billion, following the recent approval of plans to reach carbon-neutrality in transport. The government has set out its targets and now requires ministries and partners to come together to develop plans and realize the state’s ambitious, but necessary objectives.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) on Friday proposed to the country’s central government to extend the deadline for its feed-in tariff scheme by two years, from the original cut-off date in November 2021 to the end of 2023, according to a source close to the Vietnamese government.

Vietnam will select future LNG suppliers for a projected spike in gas import demand based on geopolitics as well as economics, according to asset management firm Energy Capital Vietnam (ECV), which is dealing closely with the Hanoi government. The country’s demand is expected to rise to 31bn m³ by 2035, from 10bn m³ in 2019. […]

Singapore — Indonesian thermal coal prices, which are grappling with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, could start to slowly recover from September onwards as market sentiment improves and demand picks up, sources told S&P Global Platts June 5.

The cabinet will consider ways of reducing the price of cooking gas next week, to help ease the economic impact of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, Energy Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong said. A decision on the price of LPG for home use would be among measures being introduced to alleviate the  cost of living for people in […]

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Power is back in some areas in Mandaue City. On Thursday morning, December 23, 2021, Visayan Electric President, Engineer Raul Lucero, visited Mayor Jonas Cortes to inform the mayor on the status of energization for Mandaue after the typhoon.  

The World Bank (WB), acting on behalf of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), has signed a 11.3-million-USD grant with the State Bank of Vietnam to support the development of a commercial financing market for industrial energy efficiency investments.

Southeast Asia’s power sector is set to strike out in a new direction this year, driven by energy security needs and new opportunities for collaboration as some of the world’s biggest polluters step up climate action.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA — The European Union (EU) has filed a lawsuit against Indonesia to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over Indonesia’s nickel export ban, which took effect on 1 January 2021. The export ban aims to give added values to nickel, meaning that nickel will not be exported in the form of raw ore.

Residents of Chaung Tha, a holiday resort and village on the Bay of Bengal, still rely on diesel generators to get them through electricity blackouts more than four years after Myanmar’s government gave a Chinese company the go-ahead to build a wind farm nearby. Shortly before leaving office in March 2016, former president Thein Sein’s government […]