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Cambodia Needs to Increase the Transparency of Key Infrastructure Projects

A decade ago, Cambodia relied heavily on neighboring states for its electricity supply. However, the kingdom’s domestic power generation capacity has increased twelve-fold over the last fifteen years, with hydropower representing 41 percent of total energy generation in 2020, representing Cambodia’s second-largest source of power But as this segment of the energy sector grows, a lack of transparency in majo ...

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ACEN to buy 49% stake in Vietnam solar energy platform

AC Energy Vietnam Investments Pte. Ltd. (ACEV) forged a share purchase agreement to acquire a 49% interest in Solar NT, which is a solar energy platform owned by the Thai firm’s subsidiary Super Energy Group (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. “The transaction will be via secondary shares acquisition for a total consideration of US$165 million,” ACEN said in the disclosure. “Post-restructuring, Solar NT will own and oper ...

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Time to act as momentum builds for CCUS and hydrogen 2022 will be critical as energy transition technologies move beyond hype to delivery

This year companies and governments will need to make good on the pledges they made on energy transition technologies, including carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) and low-carbon hydrogen, says Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK). In a new report, CCUS and hydrogen: 5 things to look for in 2022, the global energy consultancy points out the huge momentum behind both CCUS and low-carbo ...

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Asia must spend $2.5 trillion annually to meet 2050 climate deadline

The region will need to spend the equivalent of half of the GDP of Japan every year on low-carbon infrastructure, to avoid the unthinkable consequences of climate change, according to McKinsey. An offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Approximately $9.2 trillion per year, equivalent to three times the GDP of India, will need to be spent to achieve a net-zero world, as high carbon-emitting economic activity is phase ...

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Major blackout hits Central Asia

Major cities in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan hit by power outages after an ’emergency imbalance’ in a power grid. The grids of the three ex-Soviet republics are interconnected and linked - via Kazakhstan [File: Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters] Millions of people are left without power after a huge blackout hit three Central Asian countries – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan – after a major power line w ...

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GE Digital software allows continuous gas turbine tuning

General Electric (GE) announced new machine learning software aimed at providing continuous tuning for gas turbines. The company’s Autonomous Tuning software uses artificial intelligence (AI) to build a digital twin model of a gas turbine to find optimal flame temperatures and fuel splits. GE said the technology will help reduce emissions and fuel consumption. The software is designed to sense changes in am ...

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Portable hydrogen powered generators in Japan

Japanese startup Scitem will begin marketing this spring a portable emergency power generation system fueled by replaceable hydrogen cartridges. The power generators are about the size of a briefcase. The hydrogen from the cartridges -- which look like gas canisters -- reacts with oxygen in the air to produce electricity through an internal hydrogen fuel cell. The electricity can be used to recharge smartph ...

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Vietnam to restructure energy sector

Vietnam is determined to restructure its energy sector, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Dang Hoang An at the 4th High-Level Meeting of the Vietnam Energy Partnership Group (VEPG) held in Hanoi on January 24. Wind power in Bac Lieu Province. (Photo: SGGP) Gathering more than 150 delegates, the hybrid-format event looked back at achievements and contributions of the VEPG over the past four years of ...

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Singapore pumps $12.4 Billion into Indonesia’s Green Economy

Singapore will be investing US$9.2 billion (S$12.4 billion) to support green investment and build a logistics port hub in Indonesia, President Joko Widodo said. The money, he said, will fund renewable energy projects in Batam, Riau Islands province, and in Sumba island and West Manggarai in East Nusa Tenggara province, as well as the development of a logistics hub in Jakarta's Tanjung Priok port, the countr ...

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Future proofing Asia’s Natural Gas Plants with Hydrogen?

With half the emissions of coal, a lower price tag and almost none of the particulates, natural gas is easy to love. It is still the fossil fuel of choice for many countries in Asia. Some, like Brunei and Singapore, are powered almost exclusively by it. Touted as a clean-enough “transition” fuel, natural gas - a mix of methane and other vapours produced from age-old biomass underground - has become a popula ...

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