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What happens to CLP Power as Hong Kong transitions to carbon neutrality

With 15% of its generation mix coming from coal in 2020, CLP Power is in the middle of its energy transition journey when the Hong Kong Government declared its intention to be carbon neutral before 2050. It seems that the company already has its strategies in place to align itself with the government’s target.

Private firms eclipse the growth of the Philippines’ solar power industry

With only around 1,370 megawatts (MW) of installed solar capacity, the Philippines still has a long way to go before meeting its 20-gigawatt target by 2030. This is even as the government has provided enough support to enable the industry, leaving the fault to the private sector for having a supply that falls short of meeting high demand.

Where to put big batteries within Australia’s ‘skinny grid’

In a market, where there is plenty of land and a “unique” power grid, developers are asked—where is a good place to build a battery?

Vena Energy CEO Nitin Apte shared the company had two key considerations–good grid connection and strong demand–when it built the first utilityscale BESS in Queensland.

Supreme Energy takes a bold initiative to further develop geothermal

Next to the US, Indonesia is the second country with the largest geothermal energy source in the world. Indonesia has a potential of 23,766 megawatts (MW) with an installed Geothermal Power Plant capacity of 2,286 MW, the Handbook of Energy and Economic Statistics in 2021 from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources shows.

Indonesia’s Pertamina signs up for hydrogen development

There has been an imbalance between the potential and utilisation of renewables in Indonesia. Of the 3,686-gigawatt (GW) potential renewables estimated by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia, only 0.3% has been utilised. Pertamina NRE seeks to fill this space with hydrogen development.

Why the Philippines’ EDC will not fire up coal production

Philippines’ Energy Development Corporation (EDC) is adamant to only stick to renewables and will not venture into coal for one main reason: climate change. It also recognised the effects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict as another reason to accelerate the adoption of renewables to protect consumers from inflation shocks.