The fight against Singapore’s mountain of trash will soon pack a bigger punch, with new zero-waste legislation to compel big companies to do something about their waste. The Resource Sustainability Bill, which was passed in Parliament yesterday, will make it mandatory for some large producers of waste to re-use and recycle more. This will allow […]

The chief strategy officer of Malaysia’s largest utility yesterday vowed to reinvent the company to deliver clean energy across the country. Speaking at POWERGEN Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Datuk Fazlur Rahman of TNB said: “There is an urgent need for a paradigm shift to address the energy dilemma. Business as usual is now longer sustainable.” He added […]

Energy Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong will revise the Power Development Plan (PDP) of 2018-2037 by raising the contribution from renewable energy. He added that this would promote the establishment of community power plants and widen the opportunity of energy access for communities. He will call meeting with state energy agencies in next few days to discuss […]

STATE-RUN National Transmission Corp. (TransCo) has filed its application to collect feed-in tariff allowance (FiT-All), a subsidy given to renewable-energy (RE) developers. In its filing dated July 17, 2019, TransCo said it is seeking the Energy Regulatory Commission’s (ERC) approval for FiT-All amounting to P0.2278 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) that shall take effect in the January […]

Jakarta. For 18 months, the government has gone back and forth on an electric car regulation that is promised to accelerate the country’s shift away from being dependent on imported fossil fuel. But now it seems President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has finally put the pedal to the metal on the issue and is expected to roll out the regulation by the end […]

The Department of Energy is planning to set a ceiling price for new renewable energy players to attract investors and promote competition in the sub-sector. In a statement on Thursday, Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said, “the DOE has initiated a proposal to establish a Green Energy Rate for 2,000MW of new renewable energy generation capacity.” […]

MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines’ Department of Energy (DOE) on Thursday vowed to fast-track the implementation of two key renewable energy (RE) policies, following President Rodrigo Duterte’s directive to reduce the country’s dependence on coal. Duterte issued the directive in an annual address to Congress on Monday. The Southeast Asian nation aims to double its […]

MANILA, Philippines — Energy and environmental think tank Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED) is urging President Rodrigo Duterte and his administration to come up with an executive order outlining how they plan to “fasttrack” the development of renewable energy sources while “reducing” dependence on coal, as he mentioned during his State of the […]

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sustainable Energy Development Authority (Seda) Malaysia is completing the second biogas e-bidding and inaugural e-bidding for small hydropower systems, according to Minister of Energy, Technology Science, Climate Change and Environment Yeo Bee Yin. In a statement yesterday, Yeo said the e-bidding’s aim is to facilitate price discovery for renewable energy (RE) generated […]

ALOR SETAR, July 22 — Mentri Besar Kedah Incorporated (MBI Kedah) has launched the state’s Green Energy and Renewable Energy Master Plan. Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir said the plan also provides guidelines for potential investors in Kedah’s renewable energy industry. “The plan, formulated in cooperation with Cypark Resource Bhd, outlines four core thrusts, […]