Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) concluded its two-day inaugural Energy Transition Conference on August 29, which successfully generated meaningful conversations and knowledge to yield a comprehensive and strategic solution to some of the complexities of the global energy transition. As the world moves towards energy transition, TNB outlined panel discussions involving four pillars, namely the Future of Energy, Green Mobility, Sustainable Cities and Digitalisation, featuring prominent experts in the various fields related to the power industry and sustainability to share their insights, outlook, and perspective on issues pertaining to the issue.

Canberra has unveiled an economic blueprint to do more business with Southeast Asia, including an immediate pledge of A$70 million (US$44.7 million) towards a new Australian “deals team” based in the region. The blueprint entitled “Invested: Australia’s Southeast Asia Economic Strategy to 2040” said Australia’s investments in the region were “underweight”. Written by Australia’s special envoy to Southeast Asia, Nicholas Moore, it made 75 recommendations, including setting up a deals team to identify and facilitate more mutual investments.

Organizers said they will halve energy emissions from the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix by 2028. Singapore GP said last year’s event generated 2,372 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, including set up and tear down. Energy use made up 96.1% of total emissions, while the remaining 3.9% came from transport, waste and water.

Sabah launched a 17-year energy roadmap that aims to meet its immediate power needs by 2030 as it transitions to become a carbon-neutral state. Dubbed the Sabah Energy Roadmap and Master Plan 2040 (or SE-RAMP 2040), it aims to immediately ensure energy security for the state through short-term plans to mix its energy sources, as it is highly dependent on natural gas at present. The roadmap also covers the development of renewable energy to meet the nation's carbon neutrality goals by 2050.  

The Local Government Development Ministry (KPKT) encourages private finance initiatives (PFI) in renewable energy (RE) in line with the country’s aim to become South-East Asia’s RE powerhouse. KPKT minister Nga Kor Ming said the move towards RE is a national mission and the government welcomes PFIs such as the waste-to-energy (WTE) facility built by Berjaya Enviro Parks Sdn Bhd’s (BEPSB) at Bukit Tagar Enviro Park (BTEP) which can produce 12MW of RE power.

The world’s biggest floating wind farm has officially launched today off the west coast of Norway. Fossil fuel giant Equinor is behind the huge Hywind Tampern farm which, with 88 megawatts (MW) of capacity, will generate energy to supply nearby oil and gas platforms. The project - which uses a new technology to tie 11 giant turbines to the seafloor - has received mixed reaction from environmentalists.

Spritzer Bhd has bagged "Energy-Efficient Building" accolades on local and regional levels for its automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS). On the national level, Spritzer competed with 114 other nominees in the sub category of zero-energy building at the National Energy Awards (NEA)

The RHB Banking Group has partnered with Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) to expedite the adoption of renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and individuals. The strategic partnership complements the recently launched National Energy Transition Roadmap (NETR) towards empowering businesses, particularly SMEs, and individuals with the knowledge, tools and solutions needed to transition to greener practices.

Singapore's Energy Market Authority (EMA) on Friday (Sep 8) gave conditional approvals for five firms to import 2 gigawatt (GW) of low-carbon electricity from Indonesia. Conditional approvals are granted when EMA preliminarily assesses that the proposed electricity import projects are technically and commercially viable. They aid companies in securing the necessary regulatory approvals and licences.

Heat pumps are more than twice as efficient as fossil fuel heating systems in cold temperatures, research shows. Even at temperatures approaching -30C, heat pumps outperform oil and gas heating systems, according to the research from Oxford University and the Regulatory Assistance Project thinktank.

Cool Roof France has found an innovative way to use the 130,000 tonnes of waste oysters produced every year in France. As heat waves continue to scorch Europe, many of us are looking for cheap and innovative ways to keep our homes or workplaces cool. While air conditioning often proves effective, its environmental cost contributes further to the climate crisis. So what if we look into the past and to other parts of the world for inspiration and start painting our roofs white?

The head of the International Energy Agency urged the United States and China to set aside their differences and align on climate change, warning in an interview on Monday (Sep 4) that "geopolitical fractures" risked holding back the clean energy transition. Speaking at the African Climate Summit in Nairobi, Fatih Birol told AFP that these international rifts, partly stoked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, are "becoming more and more pronounced".