THE DEBATE over Laos’ strategy to become the “Battery of Asia” continues months after the deadly disaster at the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy hydropower dam, even as the Lao government keeps building more dams. Despite the previous government’s decision to suspend new dam projects and academics’ concerns over the transboundary impacts of dams on the environment and the wellbeing of people in the Mekong River Basin, La ...

 “The head of state set us a task to bring the share of alternative energy up to 30 percent by 2030. Today, we have taken a big step towards achieving this goal. The solar power plant launched today has 100 megawatt power. To understand the power, this energy will be enough for 10 small cities. I’ll add that two more solar power stations with a total capacity of 90 megawatts are under construction in our re ...

Google will build a floating solar farm above fishing ponds in Taiwan, in the company’s first foray into Asia’s renewable energy market. The company will work with Diode Ventures, Taiyen Green Energy, J&V Energy and New Green Power to build the 10MW facility. Floating solar farms have become popular in the Asia-Pacific regions because they can be built over water, negating the need for large tracts of c ...

ASEAN Centre for Energy is helping one of the world’s fastest growing regions to prepare for an impending economic boom and its subsequent power transformation Southeast Asia is quickly becoming one of the most enterprising parts of the global energy system. According to the International Energy Agency, the energy demand of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its 10-member countries has g ...

Multi-national OMV is reorganising its regional activities to better meet increasing energy demand in South-East Asia, which may spin out an export opportunity for New Zealand.  New Zealand’s biggest oil and gas producer, which has operated domestically and in Australia for almost 20 years, has partnered with Malaysia’s Sapura Energy to create an Asia-Pacific business of sufficient scale to foot it wit ...

Countries in the Asia-Pacific installed just shy of 25GW of onshore wind during 2018, according to figures released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). The 24.9GW added last year – a 4.2% increase on 2017 – takes the region’s cumulative installed capacity to 256GW. China led the pack with 21.2GW (preliminary) of onshore wind installations. India followed with 2.2GW, while Australia came third with 549 ...

 Top marks to the Chinese government as it reveals, three quarters of the country’s coal power generation plants have been fitted with emission-reducing technology to make them among the world’s cleanest coal plants. To date, at least 700 gigawatts (GW) worth of power plants have been fitted with “ultra-low emission” technologies, hitting the country’s target of having 580 GW of coal plants being equipped w ...

According to a recent report, the Malaysian state of Kedah recently announced that it is inviting investors to develop more green technology-based projects in the state, especially those relating to solar power. The state’s Chief Minister said this would not only create more jobs but also establish many new business opportunities in terms of the handling, maintenance and installation of solar panels at comm ...

The environmental impact of China-led coal-fired power generation projects in Pakistan is once again a hot topic of debate, weeks after a meeting of government officials from both sides. A raft of Chinese power projects, including coal-fired ones, have begun to ease the acute electricity shortages that dogged Pakistan's industries and consumers until five years ago. At one point, power cuts lasted for more ...

Tata Power today announced it has commissioned South Asia’s largest grid-scale energy storage system in Delhi. The 10 Megawatt (MW) energy storage system, owned by AES and Mitsubishi Corporation, has been installed at Tata Power Delhi Distribution’s Rohini substation.  It is expected to provide better peak load management, system flexibility and reliability to more than two million consumers, Tata Power sai ...