Two invasive weed species could contribute to a creative solution to Australia’s energy transition – as ingredients for clean, renewable fuel. Researchers at the University of Queensland found Brazilian nightshade and climbing asparagus – both aggressive vine species – can be converted into biomass pellets. That June research, highlighted this week by UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, assessed more than 20 weed species for their potential use as fuel.

The recently-announced reform of Peninsular Malaysia’s electricity tariff mechanism is critical in reflecting the true costs of fossil fuels paid by heavy energy users such as data centres, according to the country’s energy regulator.

China's renewable power potential in far-flung provinces is increasingly going unused, official statistics showed on Monday, as the country rushes to build more long-distance transmission and energy storage to bridge the gap. The curtailment rate for solar power rose to 6.6% in the first half of 2025 from 3.9% in the same period a year earlier while the rate for wind rose to 5.7% from 3%, according to the National New Energy Consumption Monitoring and Early Warning Center.

Travelling with an EV along the Gerik-Jeli route is going to get easier as there’s an upcoming EV charging station being deployed by TNB Electron. The new DC charging location has been spotted at a Petron station in Jeli, Kelantan and it will definitely help to address range anxiety concerns especially for those driving an EV with shorter range.

China’s long-term energy security strategy is robust enough to withstand even extreme scenarios, such as the potential shutdown of the vital Strait of Hormuz, say industry experts and company executives. Disruptions caused by geopolitical tensions are unlikely to fundamentally impact energy shipments to China, the world’s largest energy consumer, which has been diversifying its energy import channels while developing clean energy on a large scale, said Lu Ruquan, president of the China National Petroleum Corp Economics and Technology Research Institute.

A new tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that rooftop solar installations across the Philippines now total an estimated 1,846.08 megawatts (MW) – the most comprehensive assessment to date of the country’s distributed solar capacity.

Long before our reliance on air-conditioning, Dubai's old town kept people's homes cool using a combination of clever techniques to lower the temperature. The same techniques are being revived again today. There's no heat like the heat of a Dubai afternoon. It is relentless – and often reaches deadly temperatures. But there's a little-known part of the city where you can cool down, and do so the old-fashioned way, without air conditioning.

Egypt’s first large-scale hybrid solar and battery plant has begun construction as the country looks to its abundant sunshine to help fix its energy crisis. Obelisk, located in Nagaa Hammadi, will combine 1.1 gigawatts of solar production with 200 megawatt hours of battery storage. The $590 million project is being built by Scatec, a Norwegian renewable energy company mostly working in emerging markets.

The government has approved 48 renewable energy (RE) projects under the feed-in-tariff (FIT) programme, valued at RM1.87 billion, according to the Ministry of Energy Transition and Water Transformation (Petra). The projects will have generation capacity of 181.25 megawatts (MW), targeted to supply electricity to the grid from 2028 at the earliest, Petra said in a statement. They comprise biogas (20 projects, 30.93MW), biomass (eight projects, 53.5MW), and small hydro (20 projects, 96.82MW).

The rise of artificial intelligence has created an energy paradox. While tech leaders behind AI tools like ChatGPT say large language models can solve some of the world’s biggest problems, the infrastructure powering the technology may be creating another problem as a result of the environmental impact. AI data centers can consume 20 to 30 times as much energy as their CPU-based predecessors, according to Mark Chung, CEO of energy efficiency monitoring company Verdigris.

“I can’t wrap my head around it,” says Andrew Wee, who has been a Silicon Valley data-center and hardware guy for 30 years. The “it” that has him so befuddled—irate, even—is the projected power demands of future AI supercomputers, the ones that are supposed to power humanity’s great leap forward. Wee held senior roles at Apple and Meta, and is now head of hardware for cloud provider Cloudflare. He believes the current growth in energy required for AI—which the World Economic Forum estimates will be 50% a year through 2030—is unsustainable.

The majority of newly commissioned renewable energy is more cost-effective for electricity generation than most fossil fuels worldwide, a report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) showed on Tuesday.