NEW YORK, NY : Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Goldman Sachs announced the launch of the Climate Innovation Fund to support sustainable low-carbon economic development with a focus on South and Southeast Asia to increase the pace, scale, and ambition of climate solutions and contribute to the clean energy transition. The Fund’s initial US$25 million in […]
When the Wind Drops And the Sun Goes Down: How Can Southeast Asia Handle Fluctuating Clean Power Supply?
While solar and wind help countries meet energy security and environmental objectives, their variable nature poses challenges to electricity grids that require utilities to rethink operations. A technician cycles past the 73-megawatt Lopburi Solar Farm in Thailand’s Lopburi Province. Because solar power generation can be disrupted by cloud cover, it poses challenges to electricity grids. […]
Positive Outlook For Financing Floating Solar Projects in Southeast Asia
A 13MW floating PV plant at a lake in Malaysia. The proven ability to install large-scale floating PV plants on water bodies across Southeast Asia means financing should be readily available for new projects, it was suggested during a panel discussion today. Asia dominates the technology’s project pipeline, according to consultancy Fitch Solutions, which said […]
Singapore Hit with a predicament in the Development of Floating Solar
Singapore merely occupies 728.3km² in land area, which is equivalent to the size of two and a half Taipei Cities or half of Los Angeles. As it is a relatively small country, the first issue that is likely to be talked about when it comes to developing renewable energy in the region is, are there […]
SINGAPORE IS TURNING TO FLOATING SOLAR PANELS TO MEET ITS GREEN TARGETS
It may be one of the world’s smallest countries, but the island-state of Singapore has a big emissions problem. In fact the nation is one of the biggest carbon dioxide emitters per capita, and the densely populated nature of the city makes it hard to find the necessary space for green initiatives. So Singapore has […]
LONGi supplies 273MW of its solar modules for Southeast Asia’s largest solar plant
LONGi supplies 273MW of its solar modules for Southeast Asia’s largest solar plant, Phase I of the Xuan Thien Ea Sup Project in Dak Lak, Vietnam LONGi, the world leading solar technology headquartered in Xi’an, China, is happy to announce that it has successfully supplied its Hi-MO 4 Series modules for Southeast Asia’s largest solar […]
EESL invests in SWAG EV to catalyze energy transformation in Southeast Asia
Energy Efficiency Services Limited invests in SWAG EV to catalyze energy transformation in Southeast Asia; transaction facilitated by South Pole’s SHIFT Asia Platform World’s largest energy service companies invests in an emerging e-mobility actor to drive convergence – an emerging concept bringing together electric mobility, renewable energy, and carbon finance New Delhi: In Thailand, the drivers of the […]
Cutting carbon emissions and power costs in Southeast Asia
On the rooftop of a building in Singapore, beside one of the company’s latest installations, Total Solar Distributed Generation’s CEO, Gavin Adda, explains, “One of the big things people don’t realize about solar power is that with it you can help reduce climate change, achieve sustainability targets, and cut costs at the same time.” Adda […]
Southeast Asia needs to go all in on the renewables revolution
Solar and wind power can provide plenty of energy for Mekong countries and help avoid a dangerous tipping point for the river The construction of hydropower dams on the Mekong has brought the river, and the world’s largest freshwater fishery, to a dangerous tipping point. Development plans that would push it over the edge march […]
Sun soon to rise on southeast Asia’s largest solar farm in Vietnam
The 14-trillion-dong ($593.22 million) facility in Ninh Thuan province is scheduled to start power generation in the fourth quarter this year, the company said in an emailed statement. HANOI: Vietnamese private firm Trung Nam Group said on Wednesday it will at the end of this month start building a 450-megawatt solar farm in central Vietnam […]