Can the implementation of Microgrid in Indonesia help solve the countries energy deficit? In surprise appointments of not one but two ministers to the energy and mineral resources portfolio earlier this month, Indonesian President Jokowi acknowledged the complexity and strategic and economic importance of the sector. New Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan and Vice Minister Arcandra Tahar t ...

GE still has another energy integration on deck. General Electric said it would buy LM Wind Power, a maker of rotor blades used in wind turbines, from private equity firm Doughty Hanson for $1.65 billion, as it looks to boost output in its renewable energy business. Denmark-based LM Wind Power is the largest supplier of rotor blades to GE, and the deal will help the U.S. industrial conglomerate in-source tu ...

Southeast Asian governments should review their policies to mobilize private investment in renewable energy. The International Energy Agency has projected in its World Energy Investment Outlook that $7.7 trillion of investment is required in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in China, India, Japan and Southeast Asia by 2035 to keep the rise in global temperatures below 2C this century -- the t ...

Disagreements over how to share the waters of the Indus and other rivers have dogged relations between the nuclear-armed arch-rivals since independence in 1947 India will accelerate its building of new hydro-power plants along three rivers that flow into Pakistan, a source familiar with the plan said on Monday, in a move likely to aggravate already tense relations with its neighbour a week after an attack o ...

Indonesia’s national energy company, PT. PLN, has signed a deal with an international group of investors led by Singapore-headquartered energy and infrastructure specialist Equis to build the country’s first large-scale renewable energy project. Signed on September 19 in Copenhagen, the 60MW capacity South Sulawesi wind farm will be Indonesia’s largest wind farm yet and is seen to help achieve the country’s ...

Schneider Electric announced that it has launched “Light It Up”, a corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme to bring access to electricity to rural communities across the Asia Pacific region. From mid- September to early November, Schneider Electric employees will distribute more than 1,800 units of the Mobiya solar lamps to rural communities in 12 countries across the region. Economic and social dev ...

Today, the power segment of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) and Japan-based Tepco Fuel & Power, Inc. entered into an agreement for mutual development and introduction of Industrial IoT solutions. These products will be implemented throughout Tepco thermal power plant fleet through GE’s Predix platform. The implementation will start from Tepco’s LNG-based Futtsu Power Station Unit 4. The company will ...

Government cutting subsidies for the sector as a result of slowing economy BEIJING • After installing more wind and solar farms than anywhere else on the planet, China is ratcheting back the pace of growth in an industry that has helped lower the costs of green energy worldwide. Installations of new wind and solar farms in China are expected to drop 11 per cent next year, from a record high this year, accor ...

Columns of steam shoot from the ground at an Indonesian power plant sitting in the shadow of an active volcano, as energy is tapped from the red-hot underbelly of the archipelago. Pipes zig-zag up rugged mountainsides covered in tea plantations, carrying steam from the Earth's core to power enormous, electricity-generating turbines at the Wayang Windu facility on Java island. Indonesia, a seismically-active ...

Electricity-starved Myanmar is looking to overhaul its long-term power strategy, aiming to hike the planned share of hydropower in its energy mix at the cost of polluting coal as it tries to attract foreign investment. The new democratically-elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi has made job creation one of its top priorities in what is Asia's sixth-poorest country. However, with half of its people without ...