LONDON : I Squared Capital, a leading global infrastructure investor, has established Cube Green Energy, a renewable energy platform dedicated to accelerating the energy transition to a zero-carbon economy. The platform will develop, repower, construct, and operate wind and solar farms, as well as invest in the deployment of associated emerging technologies such as battery […]
EQ Magazine hosted a webinar on ‘Draft Electricity promoting RE through Green Energy Open Access Rules 2021’ on September 24, 2021. The webinar was held in association with Sungrow India. Speakers shared their views on the topic, spoke about their experiences related to open access projects and discussed the Draft rules in detail. Pallavi Bedi, […]
The comments came as governments and the private sector pledged to spend more than $400 billion at a high-level summit. United Nations : The United Nations chief called Friday for the world to redouble its renewable energy efforts to avert a climate emergency and address global energy poverty. “Today, we face a moment of truth,” […]
Here’s a rather fascinating statistic: Singapore’s recycling rate fell to 13 per cent in 2020, down from 17 per cent in 2019. This means that only 13 per cent of the items used in Singapore — both industrially and domestically — ended up being recycled locally. That’s an extraordinarily low rate for a developed nation. […]
Trial to import electricity from Malaysia the first step to larger imports of clean energy from South-east Asian neighbours. According to UOB chief sustainability officer Eric Lim, a regional power grid would save governments the cost of constructing new generation facilities and reduce the need for storage and related services. Clean or renewable energy usually […]
Like other regions around the world, Southeast Asia is no exception to decarbonising its energy sector, and improving its national energy security – perhaps simply because renewable energy (RE) has become cheaper. The ASEAN Member States (AMS) individually and collectively have set ambitious targets to incorporate RE in their energy system. In some cases, the […]
New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday said India and the US are revamping their strategic partnership to focus on clean energy sectors such as biofuels and hydrogen. During a meeting with a high-level US delegation led by Deputy Secretary of Energy David M Turk, he also said that India”s commitment to promote its […]
The head of South Africa’s state power utility needs to substantially reduce its 402 billion rand ($28 billion) of debt to realize his vision of transforming the coal-addicted behemoth into a leading green-energy producer and create as many as 300,000 jobs in the process. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. supplies more than 90% of the nation’s […]
Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Tamil Nadu Generation & Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO), for providing its technical expertise in developing Renewable Energy projects and fund raising. The MoU was signed by Shri Pradip Kumar Das, Chairman & Managing Director (CMD), IREDA and Shri Rajesh […]