SMA Solar Technology is to deliver equipment including inverters to a 50MW solar project in Minbu, Myanmar. The German firm will supply its Power Station 2000SC, a turnkey system solution equipped with two Sunny Central 1000SC-XT inverters and a medium voltage solution for the grid connection. The plant, 500km northwest from Yangon, will go into […]

The system will reduce 26,000 tonnes in greenhouse gas emissions once operational in 2019. Sunseap Group is developing one of the world’s first and largest offshore floating photovoltaic (OFPV) systems along the Straits of Johor which will generate about 6,388MWh of renewable energy annually once completed. According to an announcement, the system is expected to […]

The production of more than $58 million worth of 60-megawatt solar-panels has begun in Kampong Speu province after the project was approved in May by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), provincial governor Vy Samnang said. Developed by Schneitec Renewable Co Ltd, the project is a joint venture between Cambodian and Chinese investors […]

It will benefit roughly 100,000 off-grid households in the country. The European Union (EU) has provided an approximate grant of €60 million (~$68.54 million) to the Philippine government to help the country increase access to electricity services in its off-grid communities. This would increase the country’s share of renewables in its energy mix and also […]

SINGAPORE – A floating solar panel system roughly the size of five football fields will soon come up near Singapore’s northern shores, along the Straits of Johor. It is Singapore’s largest offshore floating solar panel system at about 5ha and  developed by sustainable energy provider Sunseap Group. Sunseap said this will be one of the […]

Licences have been given to 12 of 16 planned wind power projects. Of the 16 approved wind power projects for Vietnam’s central province Ninh Thuan, 12 have already received licences, marking a combined capacity of over 748MW and capital of $978m, a report by Vietnam Energy Online said. There are also 29 planned solar projects, […]

[MANILA] Within a decade, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam will find it cheaper to create new solar cell capacity than keep existing coal-fired power plants running to generate electricity, says a new report. Power generation from renewable sources is crucial to meeting the key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement to maintain global average temperature rise […]

BRUNEI Darussalam won first place in the ‘Off-Grid’ category at the 36th ASEAN Ministers of Energy Meeting (AMEM) Gala Dinner’s ASEAN Energy Award 2018 in Singapore under the Renewable Energy (RE) project competition. The project was titled ‘2kWp Off-grid Solar PV Systems in Labi, Ulu Belait, Brunei Darussalam’. Project owner Philip Chin Khee Khiong of […]

PARIS — Demand for electricity is set to explode in the next two decades, which could be good news for the environment but a challenge for governments and power companies, the IEA said Tuesday. “The electricity sector is experiencing its most dramatic transformation since its creation more than a century ago,” said the International Energy […]

In the past few months, Thailand has seen a rapid growth in independent solar power producers that are using blockchain-enabled technology to trade electricity between themselves. Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology that underpins bitcoin currency, offers a transparent way to handle complex transactions between users, producers, and even traders and utilities. It has been revolutionising […]