Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has informed that the country will not import fossil fuels from 2045 as it will develop the potential of palm oil as an alternative fuel by then.
Indonesian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Arifin Tasrif said on November 2 that Japan's Inpex Corporation is looking for investment opportunities to develop geothermal projects in the Southeast Asian country.
A fossil unearthed on Koh Por island in Koh Kong province of Cambodia has been identified as the bones of a dinosaur, Hun Marady, director of provincial environment department was quoted by the country's Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) news agency as saying.
The energy transition brings many opportunities for industries, but it also poses great challenges, particular in fossil fuel extraction and processing, according to industry insiders.
Indonesia revealed concrete steps it will take to achieve a fair and affordable energy transition at the 2022 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (WEFAM) in Davos, Switzerland.
Vietnam has actively participated in environmental protection activities in response to the Earth Day (April 22), and is striving to save energy, which is expected to help cut budget spending and keeping fossil fuels for future generations.
Vietnam saw astonishing growth in solar energy in 2021 as it increased its generation by 337 percent in a single year, to become the world’s 10th largest solar generator, according to Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2022.
Vietnam is believed to possess great potential for developing offshore wind power, but a friendlier legal framework is still needed to attract more foreign investment to this type of renewable energy, an insider has said.
Claire Stockwell, a climate policy expert at Climate Analytics, has highly valued Vietnam’s signing of the Global Coal to Clean Power Transition Statement at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, the UK.
Vietnam is making rapid strides in shifting from fossil fuels to clean energy in the post-COVID-19 world, according to a recent article published by the website asiatimes.com.
Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Pandjaitan said the government is gradually shutting down coal-fired power plants, and focusing on developing new and renewable energy.
The Enterprize Energy (EE) on May 27 signed a contract with PetroVietnam Technical (PTSC) G&S and Fugro to supply, install and operate a Floating LiDAR (FLiDAR) at the planned site of a wind power project offshore the south central province of Binh Thuan.
BNN Bloomberg, Canada's business news network reporting on finance and markets, has recently published an article highlighting the extraordinary 100-fold increase in solar power that has taken place in Vietnam over the last two years.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will stop financing new coal power plants, the main source of power supply in developing countries, under a draft energy policy released earlier this week.
Indonesia has depended much on imported fossil fuels in recent years, but the country’s Government is working to further reduce the import and phase it out by 2030.
In the wake of Vietnam’s first ever National Energy Summit in July 2020, Swedish ambassador Ann Måwe reflects over Sweden’s journey, and areas where the two countries can cooperate in the development of renewable energy.
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on April 21 launched a project on promoting low-carbon transformation in the energy sector for the 2020-2030 period and with a vision to 2050.
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