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Jakarta (ANTARA) – Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto responded positively to Toyota Motor Company’s initiative to further increase investment in the development of electric vehicles in Indonesia on account of the prospective demand in future.
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Samsung Electronics’ battery arm, Samsung SDI, has broken ground on a $1.3 billion factory in Malaysia to take advantage of the Southeast Asian country’s solid yet inexpensive tech climate and vie for a place in the growing global market for electric vehicle batteries.
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SINGAPORE: The number of tankers used for storing fuel oil along the Singapore Strait has risen since the Ukraine war broke out and could rise further as more of Russia’s supplies hit by sanctions head to Asia, industry sources and analyst.
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PETALING JAYA: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) is working on restoring electricity supply in several parts of the country after a major blackout this afternoon.
In a brief statement posted on its Facebook page, TNB said its technical team was investigating the cause of the blackout and was working hard to restore supply.
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The magnitude 7 earthquake that jolted Abra caused power outages in several areas in Northern Luzon, the Department of Energy (DOE) said Wednesday.
In its situation report, the DOE said that all power generation plants are on normal operation, except for the Hedcor hydroelectric power plants, namely the Ferdinand L. Singit and Sabangan facilities, which went on outage due to the earthquake.
Likewise, the National Power Corp.-Small Power Utilities Group plants operation in the Northern Luzon area are on normal operation.
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Jakarta (ANTARA) – Indonesia is still committed to continuing the transition to clean and renewable energy amid the COVID-19 pandemic and conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Arifin Tasrif, has said.
“Indonesia, as the president of the G20, and other G20 member countries have been committed to achieving net-zero emissions with a solid foundation to implement energy transition programs in their respective countries,” Tasrif informed at a G20 webinar series entitled “Unlocking Innovative Financing Schemes and Islamic Finance,” which was accessed online from Jakarta on Wednesday.
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MANILA – The French government is keen to help the Philippines develop its nuclear power program as the Marcos administration looks for other reliable sources of energy.
French Ambassador Michèle Boccoz said the embassy has met with some of the Cabinet members and nuclear power was listed among the key areas Paris and Manila could cooperate on.
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Hanoi, 25 July 2022 – Hydrogène de France SA (“HDF Energy”) – Euronext Paris: HDF – today announces the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saigon Asset Management (“SAM”) for the development of Renewstable® power plant projects in Vietnam.
Invented and developed by HDF Energy, Renewstable® multi-megawatt power plants produce entirely renewable, stable and dispatchable electricity 24/7 with zero greenhouse gas emissions.
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.
