Toshiba will stop taking orders for new coal-fired power plants, moving in line with a global shift toward reducing carbon emissions, we learned on Tuesday, Shifting its priority in the energy business to renewables, the Japanese industrial group will increase annual investment in them roughly fivefold to 160 billion yen ($1.52 billion) by fiscal 2022. The move comes after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pled ...

The Norwegian SN Power AS, has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in the 39.4 MW Dam Nai Wind Power Joint Stock Company in Vietnam from Mekong Wind Pte Ltd which is fully owned by the Singapore based Armstrong South East Asia Clean Energy Fund. Dam Nai Wind, is located in the “renewable energy capital” of Vietnam in the Ninh Thuan province approximately 350 km north of Ho Chi Minh City ...

Sterling and Wilson Solar Limited (SWSL) (BSE Scrip Code: 542760; NSE Symbol: SWSOLAR), today announced the opening of its new office in Spain, following its international expansion strategy. The office, located in Seville, will be the Company’s headquarters for its European operations serving and tapping markets like Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, among others. Mr. Vikas Bansal, Regional Head – Europe ...

November 2020 - Daikin Singapore ("Daikin") today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with SP Group ("SP") to provide Singapore's first large-scale residential centralised cooling system at Tengah.  The MOU includes joint research and development, product innovation and marketing opportunities in Tengah, and future collaborative opportunities in Singapore and the region. The par ...

Opportunities to invest in offshore wind energy developments are being created by government measures from Japan to India After their success in Europe and more recently in Taiwan, sponsors and international financiers are looking to other emerging markets in Asia to expand their offshore wind footprint. There are a number of key factors and trends that will influence how the offshore wind market will devel ...

Toshiba will, as early as 2022, enter the virtual power plant business -- a means of managing renewable energy facilities and operating them like a single large power plant. The move comes as Japan plans to shift from its current above-market feed-In tariff aimed at encouraging green power to one that more closely reflects market prices. Toshiba aims to store the renewable electricity in batteries, selling ...

The South Australian Government has launched its hydrogen prospectus, which outlines the plan for three hydrogen hubs to boost South Australia’s position as a leader in global clean hydrogen production and exportation. The three hubs are located at Port Bonython, Port Adelaide and Cape Hardy/Port Spencer. Just one of the hydrogen hubs could at least double the current installed capacity of solar and wind fa ...

It sounds like a great idea: convert the Pilbara's beating sunshine and plentiful wind into electricity and send it directly into energy-hungry South East Asia via power cables along the seafloor. But despite its promise, the minds behind one of the most ambitious power projects in the world have crunched the numbers and found the most economical way of transporting Northern Australia's green energy to the ...

Eco Wave Power has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with MSmart Future Technology to develop a 50MW wave energy project in Vietnam. The collaboration between the parties will be executed in milestones, said Eco. In the first phase, the Eco Wave Power engineering team will perform an in-depth feasibility study, at the selected site in Vietnam. The study will include the installation of a wave measu ...

This Malaysian Solar Energy Company Aims To Power Asia Into A Cleaner Future By Chong Seow Wei  Entrepreneur Ko Chuan Zhen, the co-founder and CEO of Plus Solar Systems, shares how he's using technology to help companies optimise their green energy consumption The world uses some 320 billion kilowatt-hours of energy a day, which is comparable to about 22 light bulbs burning non-stop for every person on the ...