TOPIC

Energy

Energy
The latest news, analysis and opinion on Energy. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.
Gita Sjahrir, managing director for investor relations at TBS Energi, speaks at the Hong Kong-Asean Summit 2025 in Hong Kong on September 9. Photo: May Tse
Indonesia

‘I’m a proud nepo baby’: meet the Indonesian tycoon embracing her privilege

Her path was paved with privilege, but she insists responsibility, not reputation, will define her impact on Indonesia’s energy future.

videocam
European Union

‘Time to turn off the tap’ as EU aims to bring forward Russian gas ban

videocam
Hong Kong economy

Letters | Hong Kong’s future lies in building strength, not barriers

Business of climate change

Beijing makes progress in quashing solar-sector price war: analysts

Outlook brightens for beleaguered supply chain, with makers of polysilicon possibly returning to profitability this month.

Workers install solar panels in Kubuqi Desert in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on September 2, 2025. Photo: Xinhua
Renewable energy

Opinion | How China’s green energy edge puts it in position to shape the future

As China’s lead expands, so will its geopolitical influence through traditional channels of power and the appeal of energy self-sufficiency.

videocam
Hong Kong environmental issues

Letters | Onshore power in Hong Kong could bring about a sea change in emissions

Readers discuss how the city can lower maritime emissions, and the next generation’s contribution to the fight against climate change.

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Belt and Road Initiative

Ex-Ecuador president calls bribery case over belt and road dam a ‘farce’

Lenin Moreno says corruption accusations are a vendetta orchestrated by former president and rival Rafael Correa.

videocam
Former Ecuadoran president Lenin Moreno Garces in 2022. Photo: AFP
Laos

How Laos plans to pay for its dam-building spree: cryptocurrency mining

Saddled with debt and surplus electricity, the ‘battery of Southeast Asia’ is eyeing energy-intensive crypto mining to turn a profit.

China-Russia relations

Editorial | China-Russia gas pipeline deal must make commercial, geopolitical sense

Depending on its final scale, the agreement could redraw the global energy landscape and directly challenge US dominance.

Donald Trump

Trump and Modi exchange warm words amid tense US-India trade talks

The US president praised Modi’s efforts to end the Ukraine war and congratulated him on his birthday during their call.

videocam
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with US President Donald Trump before a meeting in New Delhi in February 2020. Photo: TNS
Diplomacy

Opinion | China’s moment to rewire the world is arriving. What will it do?

For the first time since the Cold War, the world is between orders and the momentum is with Beijing as geopolitical winds shift eastward.

videocam
4
From the left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping talk ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit at the Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center in Tianjin, China, on September 1. Photo: AP
China energy security

Already world’s top energy-storing nation, China to supercharge capacity by 2027

New plan calls for expansion of energy-storage applications, including more projects in desert areas and at retired coal-fired power plant sites.

videocam
17
Science

China mulls converting coal-fired power plants to nuclear facilities

Retiring plants could be given a new lease of life and help China reach its decarbonisation goals under a bold proposal.

videocam
United States

Opinion | Why the world is still free riding on America

US policies are not only yielding gains that outpace those of other countries, they are also helping those nations advance their own national interests.

videocam
5
US President Donald Trump stands near a portrait of Ronald Reagan, at the White House in Washington, on September 2. Photo: Reuters
Ukraine war

Ukraine hits one of Russia’s largest oil refining complexes

The drone attack started a fire at the Bashneft facility in Ufa, about 1,400km from the front line.

videocam
A worker walks past a pump jack on an oil field owned by the Bashneft company near Nikolo-Berezovka, Bashkortostan, Russia, in January 2015. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

‘Just hiccups’: Trump’s India nominee pledges to pull New Delhi away from Beijing

US president’s envoy pick, however, says India must stop buying Russian oil and wants it to open up its market for US products.

videocam
18
China-EU relations

EU wins Trump’s focus on China, but can it deliver on ‘impossible’ demand?

Bloc finds itself in a jam after US president presses European Union to impose 100% tariffs on India and China to pressure Putin.

videocam
14
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Bangladesh

Bangladesh buys more power from India to meet rising electricity needs

The country has been boosting power imports and local coal-fired generation due to gas infrastructure challenges and to cut costs.

Residents queue to receive credit on their prepaid electric bills after an internet blackout in Dhaka in July 2024. Photo: AFP
India

‘Not desperate’: why India remains firm on US tariff talks as it seeks a deal

The US continues to pressure India to open its agricultural sector after it imposed a 50 per cent tariff on Indian goods.

videocam
China energy security

Gas and minerals galore: digging into China’s 5-year push for critical resources

‘Major exploration breakthroughs’ have enhanced China’s energy security and tech developments as self-sufficiency efforts pay off.

videocam
4
China’s private sector

Imports from China account for more than 5 million Brazilian jobs, study says

Export-related jobs described as higher-paying, but imports’ impact deeper, report says.

videocam
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hugs China’s Premier Li Qiang after a bilateral meeting ahead of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on July 5. Photo: AFP
China-Russia relations

Opinion | Why China, not Russia, will gain most from Power of Siberia 2 pipeline

The new pipeline will allow China to buy Russian gas at below-market prices and make Moscow even more dependent on Beijing.

videocam
4
Russias President Vladimir Putin signs on the first segment of the Power of Siberia pipeline during a ceremony at the village of Us Khatyn in Russia on September 1, 2014. Photo: Reuters
Donald Trump

Trump says he’ll speak to ‘good friend’ Modi soon on US-India trade

The US president’s remarks come as he pressures EU leaders to join him in punishing India and China for buying Russian oil.

videocam
7
Africa

Ethiopia opens Africa’s largest dam amid Egyptian protest

The project is set to provide energy to millions in the region but is seen by Cairo as an existential threat that endangers its water supply.

Malaysia

Malaysia tightens security at Petronas’ Bintulu LNG hub to investigate ‘threat’

Authorities did not specify the nature of the threat to the complex, which is the world’s largest single-site LNG production facility.

videocam
An aerial view of the Petronas liquefied natural gas terminal at Bintulu in Sarawak — the world’s largest single-site LNG complex and a linchpin of Malaysia’s energy exports. Photo: Ahmad Afif Isa (CC BY 2.0)
China-Russia relations

China-Russia pipeline would be ‘shock’ to global LNG trade: analysts

If completed, the Power of Siberia 2 would cement Beijing and Moscow’s energy ties - and cause a headache for the US, the world’s top LNG exporter.

videocam
17
The Power of Siberia 2, a natural gas pipeline from Russia to China and passing through Mongolia, would have broad impact on the global energy trade if completed. Photo: AFP
China energy security

China targets global leadership in AI-driven energy sector by 2030

Beijing plans to incorporate the cutting-edge tech across energy as part of its new “AI Plus” strategy.

videocam
Russia

Key Opec members send ‘big message’ with higher oil production

Opec has in recent years implemented several output cuts amounting to a total of almost six million barrels per day.

videocam
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Help preserve 120 years of quality journalism.
SUPPORT NOW
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement