renewable energy

Retail Asia16/04/2021

It’s a big day in the book of the Earth! Facebook has officially reached the goal of one-hundred-percent renewable energy for its global operations. The social media giant might have come under fire for security issues and political scandals, but we’ll give it to them on this one. According to the company’s own news channel, the […]

Retail Asia28/01/2019

Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are on a path to transform their power landscapes as energy demand continues to rise to match the region’s economic growth potential, a power management company said this week. “In the pursuit of a robust digital economy, Asean is heralding in an era of unprecedented innovation […]

Retail Asia10/12/2018

The investment rush in solar energy could end up testing Vietnam’s weak power infrastructure, experts say. They say that both transmission capacity and the ability of grids to absorb the energy produced by new projects are suspect, as of now. The 9.35 U.S. cents per kWh Feed in Tariff (FIT) for solar power in Vietnam […]

Retail Asia06/12/2018

Vietnam’s new feed-in tariffs are attracting great interest in wind power, but investors are concerned about grid connection and purchase agreements. The new feed-in tariffs (FIT) are expected to be attractive to domestic and foreign investors, Tommaso Rovatti Studihard, South East Asia sales director for wind power developer Vestas Asia Pacific said. The government recently […]

Retail Asia02/11/2018

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The government’s plan to build a renewable energy complex at Saemangeum, North Jeolla, is generating controversy as it deviates from plans to develop the reclaimed tidal flat into a regional economic hub and is being pursued without public approval. The controversy flared up as President Moon Jae-in announced Tuesday that the government will construct a […]

Retail Asia17/07/2018

More renewable energy (RE) projects are expected to come up for bids in the near term as the new Energy, Green Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment Ministry is committed to push up the nation’s RE capacity. MIDF Research, which recently attended the Minister Yeo Bee Yin’s maiden townhall, said the latter pointed that the […]

Retail Asia25/06/2018

Vietnamese construction firm Xuan Cau and Thailand conglomerate B.Grimm have teamed up to build Southeast Asia’s largest solar power plant in Tay Ninh Province. The signing of the joint venture agreement in Bangkok was witnessed by the prime ministers of both countries. The $420 million, 420MW project is set to be commissioned in June 2019, […]

Retail Asia22/06/2018

Vietnam is far away from realizing its short and medium term wind power goals, with no ready solution in sight to several impediments, experts say. They said at a recent conference on wind energy development in Vietnam that high interest rates, low selling prices and inadequate power purchase agreements from the investors’ point of view […]

Tag: renewable energy

Facebook just made the world a better place: 100% renewable energy

Asean’s Power Landscape Expected to Transform in 2019

Vietnam solar power investment rush poses an overload risk

Vietnam’s wind power tariffs attractive, but concern rises

Renewable project facing criticism in Korea

Malaysia to have ore renewable energy projects in near term

Southeast Asia’s largest solar project to be built in Vietnam

Vietnam’s renewable energy yet to get wind in its sails