BANGKOK: From a state-owned enterprise to a renewable energy startup, key players are jumping into Thailand’s electric vehicle battery market, driven by the government’s push to make the country a regional production hub for EVs and their components.

A Florida-based e-mobility company and a business park operator have pledged to invest up to $1 billion into the planned factory, in Chonburi province, starting with a 1 GWh section likely to take shape in 2023.

Thailand’s state-owned utility Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) has issued a tender for the construction of a hybrid power plant based on floating photovoltaics and hydropower.

THAILAND: The Ministry of Transport is pushing ahead with the procurement of battery railcars, and consideration is being given to local production and the conversion of existing diesel locomotives to battery power.

Battersea Power Station will be open to the public for the first time on October 14, 2022. Electric Boulevard, a new pedestrianised high street running from the south of the Power Station, between Frank Gehry’s Prospect Place and Foster + Partners’ Battersea Roof Gardens, will also open on the same day at the new Battersea […]

Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) and LG Chem, two of the world’s top producers of batteries for electric vehicles (EV), have signalled they may join projects that could see US$20 billion (S$27.2 billion) more invested in supply chains in Indonesia, according to the country’s government.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Jan. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Kulara Water, the leading pure natural mineral water producer in Cambodia, has commissioned TotalEnergies to design, install and operate the solar energy and energy storage solution for their bottling facility in Siem Reap Province.

HCM CITY — A team of researchers and students at the HCM City University of Science – Việt Nam National University – Ho Chi Minh City have succeeded at making a prototype lithium-ion rechargeable battery from rice husks, a common agricultural waste in Việt Nam, especially in the Mekong Delta. Leader of the team, Vũ […]

The U.S. Consulate General in HCMC has granted $2.96 million to a local firm for implementing a battery energy storage pilot project in central Vietnam.

JAKARTA (April 14): Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the East Asia Summit (EAS) need to bolster the use of renewable energy sources and work for energy sufficiency, as well as clean energy transition or decarbonisation. The Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) Chief Operating Officer, Hachiyama Koji […]