JAKARTA – Indonesia is juggling between two options as it moves closer to setting regulations on the adoption of electric vehicles. The impending outcome is set to benefit Japanese car giant Toyota or South Korea’s Hyundai Motor and European carmakers such as BMW. The Joko Widodo administration is throwing its support behind green vehicles as […]

Huynh Kim Tuoc, director of the Saigon Innovation Hub (SIHUB), said that de-centralised waste processing, in which waste would be processed on a smaller scale spread out over the city, would be less polluting than centralised facilities, which exist in fewer areas with larger volumes of waste. Ichiro Hatayama, chairman of the MILAI Group, a […]

HCM CITY– A work plan for 2019 to help HCM City review its climate change policies and update action plans was agreed at the final workshop of a Japan International Cooperation Agency technical co-operation project. The project, to “support the planning and implementation of nationally appropriate mitigation actions in measurement, reporting and verification procedures” (SPI-NAMA) […]

NDO/VNA – The fifth Vietnam-Japan Environment Policy Dialogue was held in Hanoi on January 9 by the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and the Japanese Ministry of the Environment. Speaking at the event, MoNRE Deputy Minister Vo Tuan Nhan spoke highly of the efforts by the Japanese ministry in cooperating with and […]

HÀ NỘI — Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng asked the Việt Nam National Coal – Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited (Vinacomin) to ensure sufficient coal supply and seek measures to improve coal quality in 2019. Speaking at Vinacomin’s conference on Wednesday to review 2018 business results and develop orientations for 2019, Dũng said that […]

The government has lowered its coal production target for this year to 480 million tons in an effort to stabilize the global coal price, an official has said. Last year’s target was 485 million tons, 25 percent of which was allocated to the domestic market obligation (DMO). Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry mineral and coal […]

SINGAPORE — Singapore generated more than 50 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2014, the bulk of it from the burning of fossil fuels to generate energy for industries, buildings, households and transportation. The figure, which is the latest available, was published online last week in a biennial report that the Government submitted to the […]

MANILA, Philippines — The year 2018 put the spotlight on the Philippines’ dependence on imported fuel to power up the country’s progress and day-to-day operations. This was validated by the latest Energy Trilemma Index of the World Energy Council, which ranks 125 countries in three dimensions – environmental sustainability, energy security and energy equity. The […]

The overall tariff billed by Manila Electric Company (Meralco) to the wide base of its residential subscribers this January was down by P0.3418 per kilowatt hour (kwh) due to lower cost of supply procurement from power producers. The average rate reflected in the bills for those in the 200-kilowatt hour consumption bracket then had been […]

From now to 2030, the demand for electricity will continue to grow at a high level, the report said. The electricity sector will need to ensure 265 to 278 billion KWh by 2020 and 572 to 632 billion KWh by 2030. The growth rate in the 2021-2030 period will be 8-8.5 per cent. Tran Dinh […]