Renewable energy (RE) is at the heart of going green in ASEAN’s BIMP-EAGA sub-region. The Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area is committed to sustainability and developing clean and green technologies in its Vision 2025 and covid-19 recovery strategy. Building green cities, boosting ecotourism, shifting to the circular economy, and guiding small businesses towards green manufacturin ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh and India can be benefited by generating hydropower in Nepal and Bhutan as it will be clean energy. The prime minister said this while Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla paid a courtesy call on her at her official residence Gono Bhaban this morning. Prime Minister's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters after the call. Shringla said s ...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released a new roadmap that examines ways Tajikistan could maximise the potential value of its surplus hydropower through cross-border trading, helping to advance renewable energy throughout central Asia. The IEA developed its energy policy Roadmap on Cross-Border Electricity Trading for Tajikistan as part of its work through the EU4Energy Programme. The Roadmap is ...

Pakal Dul Power Project, situated on the Marusudar is possibly the biggest hydroelectric project in J&K, constituting a 548-feet-tall concrete-face rockfill dam expected to enhance the region’s power generation capacity through nature’s bounty. Underpinning this mammoth project is an underground powerhouse, capable of generating 1,000 megawatts of green electricity. Originating from an elevation of more ...

Progress and prosperity in South Asia are under threat. The UN scientific body Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which sets the gold standard for evidence of a changing climate, recently released the latest in a long list of studies drawing attention to the region’s climate chaos. Yet, over the last decade, regional collective action to address the crisis has steadily dwindled and, in many c ...

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$380 million loan to develop Indonesia’s first pumped storage hydropower plant, aiming to improve power generation capacity during peak demand, while supporting the country’s energy transition and decarbonization goals. “The Indonesian government is committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through, among others,  development of renewable e ...

Voith was awarded a B- rating for the first time by the independent rating agency ISS ESG and, together with SKF Group and Johnson Controls, is one of the three best companies within the plant and mechanical engineering sector worldwide. This was the first time since 2016 that the rating was improved from C+ to B-. The rating agency ISS ESG evaluates Voith's sustainability performance in comparison with 167 ...

Monthly remote consulting for Vietnamese power plants with digital state-of-the-art technology by Voith High customer satisfaction in projects Ca Nan 1 and 2 results in ongoing service cooperation New service model serves as reference for many Southeast Asian countries HANOI, VIETNAM: Voith Hydro signed a contract with SCI Nghe An Joint Stock Company (SCI) of Vietnam to provide annual digital-based maintena ...

The project will support New Zealand’s ambitious goal to lower carbon emissions.Voith Hydro strengthens its position as one of the leading hydropower equipment suppliers in New Zealand. Contact Energy selected Voith Hydro to upgrade its Roxburgh hydropower plant on the Clutha River in New Zealand. Contact is looking to increase its generation output using the same water flow by replacing four turbines with ...

The prospect of generating clean energy from waves moved a step closer as Mocean Energy commenced testing of their Blue X wave energy prototype at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney.  In the last few days the 20-metre long, 38-tonne wave machine has been towed from Kirkwall to EMEC’s Scapa Flow test site where it has been successfully moored and commissioned for initial sea trials. ...