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Climate Counselor to the Secretary of the US Treasury John Morton and US Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Rick Duke met with their Indonesian counterparts on Thursday to advance the Indonesia Just Energy Transition Partnership.
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SINGAPORE and Cambodia have agreed to cooperate to advance solutions relating to clean energy due to the countries’ shared interest, the two governments said in a joint statement on Friday (Sep 16).
This came out of a virtual meeting between Cambodian Minister for Mines and Energy Suy Sem and Manpower Minister and Second Minister for Trade and Industry Tan See Leng on the sidelines of the 40th Asean Ministers on Energy Meeting.
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Indonesia clinched 10 awards in several categories at the 2022 ASEAN Energy Awards (AEA), which were announced virtually as part of the 40th ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting (AMEM) and ASEAN Energy Business Forum activities.
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The government will increase existing promotional grants and subsidies for the commercialisation of renewable energy, says Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
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Indonesia is allowing the development of coal-fired power plants for certain projects and under specific conditions, a year after it said it would phase them out to become carbon neutral by 2060.
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The Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City (IUH) has launched the first university Smart Grid Lab in Vietnam. The lab will give 350 students a year, at the Electrical, Electronics, Control and Automation Faculties, the opportunity to build the skills they need to address the power network challenges of the future.
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Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Arifin Tasrif has emphasized the importance of developing new and renewable energy (EBT) for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector and realizing net-zero emissions by 2060.
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Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Thursday that renewable energy from hydropower, solar energy and biomass energy has accounted for 40 percent of the kingdom’s total energy.
ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) is an intergovernmental organisation within ASEAN structure that represents the 10 ASEAN Member States’ (AMS) interests in the energy sector.
