Economic diversification gathers pace as oil reliance wanes: CSPS
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – Brunei has made “substantial progress” in diversifying its oil-driven economy in recent years, and should continue harnessing its strengths in energy to build an internationally competitive industrial sector, said the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies (CSPS).
Petronas eyes $1.3B project in Alberta to export hydrogen to Asia
CALGARY — The Canadian division of Malaysia’s state-owned oil giant Petroliam Nasional Berhad, or Petronas, plans to study the feasibility of building a $1.3 billion petrochemical plant in central Alberta with the goal of exporting hydrogen to an Asian markets.
How Singapore can step up S-E Asia’s low-carbon push
Climate change, once thought a problem for future generations, is making its mark here and now.
PLN to focus on building renewable-energy power plants
Jakarta (ANTARA) – State electricity company PT PLN Persero has said it will increase investment directed at renewable-energy power plant construction in anticipation of a fivefold jump in Indonesia’s electricity demand by 2060.
Focus on the energy transition
THE coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has brought out the sobering reality that the world is not as advanced and as resilient as we thought it to be. We have realized that our societies and economic systems are fragile and that we are only as strong as our most vulnerable. The only way to survive […]
EMA, Shell renew partnership with $4m funding to grow Singapore energy start-ups
SINGAPORE – The Energy Market Authority (EMA) and energy company Shell have committed $4 million with support from Enterprise Singapore (ESG) to grow local energy start-ups, as part of a renewed partnership.
ABB to intensify offer of smart solutions to buildings, ‘smart cities’ in PH
European firm ABB will be intensifying its offer of ‘smart solutions’ to buildings and other property developments as well as the installation of “smart cities” in the Philippines
Southeast Asian solar markets emerging from the back of the pack
Southeast Asia could well become the global engine room of renewable energy expansion. Population and economic growth is expected across the three decades in which the world has to decarbonise, but the brimming bounty of renewables deployment will force developers to navigate the region’s systems. As it turns out, that could be a treacherous task.
