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Electrify to tap US$60M solar energy opportunity in Southeast Asia with launch of Singapore’s first peer-to-peer energy trading pilot

...renewables and help lower the nation’s carbon footprint.” Beyond Singapore, Electrify is currently speaking with established energy players and regional utilities to bring Synergy into th...

22 Jul 2020

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...renewables and other green industries, makes a compelling case for agencies to get serious with making climate commitments a part of their business," she told Eco-Business.

15 Feb 2022

...renewables are cheaper and produce low carbon power far more quickly. But the link between civil and defence nuclear industries does explain why in the UK the government is spending £215m ($298m) on r...

25 Mar 2021

...renewables. But under RE100 guidelines, the electricity consumed by the members must be produced within the same market boundary as it is consumed, posing challenges for companies operating in Asia Pa...

24 Mar 2021

Sukhpal Singh Tomar, 53, a resident of Lohari village in Uttarakhand and a teacher by profession, narrates the incident that led to the the loss of his home. “It will be nearly a month after the subme...

13 May 2022

Extinguishing waste-to-energy incineration myths

In a new Public Service Announcement (PSA), Waste Burning Exposed, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia Pacific revealed truths regarding waste-to-energy (WtE) incinerators. F...

26 Nov 2021

...renewables, such as solar and wind, whose power output fluctuates depending on weather patterns. The report describes this assumption as “wildly inaccurate”, pointing to ever-cheaper energy storage as...

7 Sep 2020

...Renewables made a high profile US$ 539.1 million takeover bid for Infigen, one of Australia’s largest wind asset owners. AC Energy’s CEO mentioned that they started with 100 megawatts (MW) in 2016 and...

12 Jun 2020

The tide comes in quickly. “You have to move, move, move,” says Rose Au. “Within a few minutes, it’s up to your knees!” Coupled with the dangers of getting stuck in the mud or encountering a crocodile...

10 May 2022

Corporations including two of the world's biggest carmakers, search engine giant Google and electronics manufacturer Samsung have signed a statement opposing the mining of the deep sea-bed floor.

Four multinational corporations that use rare metals for the electronic components in their products have called for a temporary ban on deep sea-bed mining, because of the environmental impact that mi...

1 Apr 2021

Coke's beverage bottle made from 100 per cent plant-based plastic

...renewables instead of fossil fuels, said Mario Grimau, a polymer engineer and materials science specialist at Spring, a United States-based sustainable packaging think tank. “In the case of biobased p...

9 May 2022

Mayur Roy, a 31-year-old businessman from Cuttack in Odisha, bought an electric scooter (a two-wheeler) earlier this year, with an intention to move towards a non-polluting mode of transport. He uses ...

9 May 2022

...renewables, was he trying to upstage climate-denying and coal-loving President Trump, was he trying to divert attention from internal human rights issues and Hong Kong, or from accusations against Chi...

21 Oct 2020

China risks cutting emissions too slowly if it fails to reconcile climate goals with other national priorities in the coming years, and only an economic collapse would then see it hit climate targets,...

26 Feb 2021

Against the backdrop of Covid-19 disruptions, Japanese pharmaceutical and tech companies flew Asia's flag in the latest ranking of the world's 100 most sustainable firms. Led by Tokyo-headquartered dr...

26 Jan 2021

With renewable energy now the cheapest way of mass-producing electricity, the race is on to find the best way to conserve the surplus for use at peak times, and also to use the stored electricity to d...

23 Jul 2020

...renewables come online and reduce the utilisation rates of gas-fired power plants,” said Reynolds. “Idle capacity can result in the asset becoming stranded, meaning that it earns a smaller economic re...

12 May 2021

metro station with solar panels installed in New Delhi, India

...renewables over the next 20 years. This is shown in the chart below, where electricity generation from non-hydro renewables in 2040 is now seen reaching 12,872 terawatt hours (TWh) in the STEPS, up fr...

19 Oct 2020

Oil storage tanks at the Wynyard Quarter in Auckland, New Zealand

...renewables compared with last year’s edition, the “rapid” and “net-zero” pathways show the likes of wind and solar recording explosive growth over the next three decades. In the net-zero scenario, ren...

16 Sep 2020

For the fifth year in a row, a council of nations involved in Antarctic fishing operations have failed to agree on new conservation measures which experts had hoped would protect the Southern Ocean fr...

19 Nov 2021

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