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Han Seng Coal Mine Co Ltd’s 265MW coal-fired power station in Oddar Meanchey province’s easternmost Trapaing Prasat district is nearly 60 per cent complete, deputy provincial governor Dy Rado told The Post.
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Indonesia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, which also drives up the demand for energy. The country has been a net oil importer since 2003, owing to the high domestic demand for energy and declining national oil production.
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A multibillion-dollar and flagship coal gasification project in South Sumatra might do more harm than good for Indonesia’s economy, the latest Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) report has found.
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Jakarta (ANTARA) – State-owned oil company Pertamina has synergized with state-owned electricity company PLN to build an energy research center to foster national energy resilience, independence, and sovereignty.
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Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith has ordered the Excise Department to study the excise tax structure on electric vehicles (EV) to promote industry development and lower the price of EVs.
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Despite a need to shift towards defensive business operations, including cuts in capital spending and salaries among executives during the recession, Banpu Plc is not losing steam as it grows in the clean energy field.
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Ratch Group, Thailand’s largest private power producer by capacity, plans additional mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for power generation assets in a bid to achieve capacity expansion to 10,000 megawatts by 2025.
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The message from the top is clear: cut out coal. While the regulatory pressure has been evident for some time, the race to banish the black stuff stepped up a notch last week when a $5 trillion valued institutional investor group made up of many of the world’s largest insurers and pension schemes warned the companies they invest in not to finance, insure, build, develop or plan new thermal coal plants.
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.
