Indonesia to discuss how to continue biodiesel program amid falling fuel prices
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s ministry of economic affairs is set to discuss how the country will continue its ambitious biodiesel programme, a ministry official told Reuters on Wednesday. The economic affairs ministry will meeting on Wednesday to decide the government’s next moves to ensure the continuity of a mandate which requires biodiesel to have 30 per cent bio-content (B30) made […]
Bukit Asam to cut capex amid falling demand from PLN, India
State-owned coal miner PT Bukit Asam (PTBA) plans to cut its capital expenditure (capex) this year amid falling power demand in India and at home as the company books a sharp profit slump in the first quarter. The miner initially budgeted Rp 4 trillion (US$264.9 million) of capex for 2020, mostly to develop a giant coal-fired […]
Ministry calls for allowing private investment in power transmission
The Ministry of Industry and Trade wants private investments allowed in power transmission, now a state monopoly, as demand surges in a booming economy. It has proposed that the new Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Bill should have provisions allowing private companies to invest in transmission lines and substations connecting power plants with the national grid.
Here’s how you can track your carbon footprint and help keep emissions low
Experts are estimating that global emissions this year will fall by 5.5 per cent of the global total in 2019—the largest ever fall in the last century—due to a drastic reduction in human activities as a result of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. While the planetary breather is the largest ever fall in emission levels in the last […]
Bids sought for coal mining licences
The Mine and Energy Ministry has called on local and foreign companies to bid for the Kingdom’s coal mining exploration licences in Oddar Meanchey. The announcement wants both local and foreign private companies to apply for a licence to explore coal mines within a 200 square kilometre area in the province’s Ou Svay commune in Trapeang […]
Shell Halts Philippines Oil Refinery As Demand Collapses
Shell’s Philippines unit will suspend refining operations at its 110,000-bpd refinery in the country for a month starting in the middle of May, due to the dramatic plunge in fuel demand and the erosion of refining margins in the COVID-19 pandemic. “In response to the drastic decline in local product demand and the significant deterioration of regional refining […]
SunPower accesses $1 billion in residential solar and storage loan capital from Tech CU
Despite the pandemic, capital is still pouring into solar. SunPower just announced a $1 billion partnership with Tech CU that gives the solar panel efficiency leader access to a significant chunk of capital for its loan program. The new partnership provides financing opportunities for potential U.S. residential solar and storage customers.
Energy in ASEAN: Renewable Energy in Vietnam
The combined gross domestic product (GDP) of the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) stands at $2.8 trillion—equivalent to ranking fifth in the world’s largest economies1. Although the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the region are highly uncertain at the time of writing, the pre-COVID-19 expectation was for GDP […]
