General Director of Trung Nam Group Nguyen Tam Tien said the 246-hectare solar and wind power complex would supply 401 million kWh each year for the provincial and national energy grid, and earn annual revenue of US$71 million from power sales. Tien said the plants would employ 2,000 local workers starting from the end of […]

A report from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) stated that during the 2014-2016 fiscal years, revenue from upstream oil and gas sectors stood around US$16 billion, or 18% of the government’s total revenue. 14% of the revenue, however, was then channelled out for fossil fuel subsidies. The IISD recommends the government cut its […]

With the intensifying global pivot toward renewable energy to address climate change, the shift in developing countries such as the Philippines is starting in the grassroots and community levels. These communities of practice, while small in scale, serve as proof that renewable energy is feasible and genuinely beneficial — and serve as encouraging examples for […]

Indonesia once had policies that supported the development of clean energy, but regulatory changes in the last 10 years seem to be the root of the problem of why abundant sources of renewable power in the country have been left mostly untouched after more than seven decades after the country’s independence. Based on an interview […]

It is expected that power plants in Mekong Delta will have total electricity capacity of 18,224 MW, or 7.6 times bigger than Son La hydropower plant, the biggest in Southeast Asia (2,400 MW). These include O Mon 1, with the capacity of 660 MW and output of 3.6 billion kwh per annum, which consumes 1 […]

THE European Union (EU) and the Department of Energy (DOE) are pushing ahead with the lighting of off-grid communities, which would benefit close to 100,000 households, especially in the Bangsamoro region. The EU Delegation’s Head of Development Cooperation Enrico Strampelli and DOE Undersecretary Felix William B. Fuentebella spearheaded the commemoration of the switch-on ceremony for […]

The continuous decline in oil prices that has led to a lower contribution to national revenue should become a wake-up call for the government to immediately kick off fiscal reform that would speed up the use of renewable energy, experts in a recent discussion said. According to a new report released by the Canada-based International […]

The United Kingdom has pledged 15 million pounds (US$19.5 million) in grants to Indonesia to accelerate the development of low-carbon energy in the country. The grants will be used to finance four programs, namely matchmaking between the private sector and the government, capacity building for stakeholders, policy making assistance and pilot projects in rural or […]

Christiana Figueres, the woman who led the negotiations in the groundbreaking Paris Agreement as executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, steered almost 200 nations through the most complex international deal ever attempted four years ago. But in her current job as convenor of Mission 2020, a global initiative to curb fossil fuels by the […]

MANILA –The Department of Energy (DOE) has recognized the help extended by the German development agency, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), in advancing renewable energy use in the country, for cleaner and more sustainable power. GIZ has provided the Philippines technical and financial assistance through a three-year project called Shaping and Implementing the […]