The Department of Science and Technology and its attached agency―the mothballed Philippine Nuclear Research Institute―want the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant commissioned because of a looming depletion of gas from the Malampaya gas field in Palawan. BACK ONLINE? A general view shows the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant as pictured on Sept. 16, 2016. At the time, […]

December 11 (Renewables Now) – The Philippines Competition Commission (PCC) has given the green light to Kepco Philippines Holdings’ acquisition of a 38% stake in Solar Philippines Calatagan Corp (SPCC), a unit of Solar Philippines. The acquisition will mark the entry of Kepco Philippines, which is a unit of Korea Electric Power Corp (KRX:015760), into […]

House Bill 8179 granting private firm Solar Philippines a 25-year PV mini-grid and transmission franchise across the Philippines passed through its third and final reading on Monday. This procedural step allows the company’s unit Solar Para Sa Bayan (SPSB) to set up these mini-grids undeterred by the incumbent franchises of rural electric cooperatives. The chamber approved […]

KUCHING: Sarawak is well on its way to achieve 97 per cent electricity coverage by 2020 with the RM2.37 billion special allocation in the State Budget 2019. In pointing this out, Assistant Minister of Rural Electricity Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Junaidi said the electricity coverage in Sarawak currently stood at 91 per cent. “About nine […]

COMPANIES involved in generating electricity from sunlight will be back in action soon as the country’s much-anticipated, mouth-watering large-scale solar (LSS) programme will resume with a new round of open tender next year. In a move to increase Malaysia’s power generation from renewable sources, the government recently announced that RM2 billion worth of projects under […]

Ecogreen Energy, a subsidiary of Singapore listed CJE group, the global leaders in waste management and waste-to-energy sector, has appointed Vishal Gupta as the Chief Executive Officer. The decision of the management change came during the board meeting held recently. He will be incharge of the day-to-day leadership of the Company and will also join […]

KATOWICE, Poland, Dec 11 2018 (IPS) – Although Indonesia has attained decent economic growth of over five percent in the last decade, in order to ensure sustainable growth in the future the switch to renewable energy (RE) will be critical, says the country’s government. “If we don’t focus on low carbon development, we cannot continue […]

South Sumatra is officially recorded to have geothermal energy potential of up to 2,095 Megawatts, equivalent to 10% of the total geothermal potential in the country of 29 Gigawatts. This potential, according to the ESDM Director of Geothermal Energy, Trisnaldi, must be worked on and the results prioritized to meet the electricity needs of the people […]

Thailand’s power-generating capacity will be deregulated in the near future, meaning the state-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) must compete with private firms at auctions for new large power plants, according to the tentative national power development plan (PDP). The latest version of the PDP is envisioned as the long-term development plan for the […]

The Mekong River, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to the South China Sea, is a hotbed of ecological diversity. The roughly 60 million people who live in the region, many in poverty, depend on the river and its tributaries for food and income. But a surge in hydropower […]