Yunnan Energy, a Chinese government-owned entity, has signed an agreement with New York-headquartered FinTech firm Ideanomics to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and smart grid infrastructure in Yunnan province and in Southeast Asia. Ideanomics and Yunnan Energy will establish the New Energy Industry Fund to promote investment into the construction and management of power grid infrastructure in ...

Energy transition and decarbonisation are becoming increasingly critical to addressing the ever-growing concerns of climate change. In spearheading decarbonisation efforts, we must pay special attention to the development of hydrogen.  Hydrogen is more than just another option that we can add to the long list of clean technology as it can provide an energy supply which is uniquely flexible. This added ...

Team Terra Drone Indonesia with officials from Medco Energi and C-Astral Bramor C4EYE UAS (Click here to see video) Purwakarta, Indonesia – Terra Drone Indonesia, a group company of Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation, has conducted a demonstration to showcase the advantages of UAV-based pipeline monitoring to Indonesian oil and gas group Medco Energi Internasional Tbk PT. The demo was completed on Nov ...

How can utilities cut blackouts during disasters? How can governments ensure reliable electricity access in even the most remote regions? And how can countries secure the future of their energy resources while tackling climate change? Energy pioneers from across the region are tackling and thinking about these challenges every day. We bring to you a roundup of case studies, ideas and experiments from utilit ...

VR isn’t just for video games anymore. Doctors are using it to train for surgeries; police officers use it in simulated terror attacks. One utility provider in Asia is using virtual reality to train its employees to respond in the case of workplace accidents. Taiwan Power Company, the state’s only electric utility, has a broad vision of using smart technology to provide better services to the 7 million hous ...

Southeast Asia is a region that is developing rapidly at an unfortunate period in human history. As the climate change clock ticks, the region of 641 million people must chart a developmental path that decouples the fossil fuel-dependent economic model of the past with a future that is expected to see global temperatures rise by, at the current rate of emissions, about 3 degrees Celsius. The archipelagic bl ...

A ceremony was held for the Nhat Tan-Noi Bai smart city project in Hanoi, earlier this week. The project is backed by the Hanoi’s People’s Committee, BRG Group, and Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation Group. It is the first smart city project in Hanoi. The project is based on smart urban planning for the Nhat Tan-Noi Bai route, which is over 11km long. The smart city project along this rou ...

Sunfire, a leading global cleantech company, has signed a cooperation agreement with the French major energy company Total SA. Sunfire will provide a megawatt-scale high temperature electrolyser for use in industrial environments as part of the E-CO2MET research and development project. The company will also be responsible for the integration at the site as well as the operation and maintenance of the elect ...

In the wake of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, one of the country’s richest people – Masayoshi Son – mooted an idea to build an “Asia Super Grid” to improve access to renewable energy on the continent.  The CEO of SoftBank set up the Renewables Energy Institute (REI) to promote this vision and rally support from governments. Stakeholders did not take the idea seriously at first. According t ...

According to a new report from Navigant Research, Asia Pacific is anticipated to be the largest regional market for energy storage software platforms. Driven by a rapidly growing battery ESS (BESS) market, the region is expected to account for $10.7 billion in cumulative software vendor revenue through 2028. As the energy storage market matures, technological progress and legislative and regulator ...