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Latest news and analysis about non-fossil fuel energy, including electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells, solar, wind and wave energy.
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9 September, 2024
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (left) with Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 18. Brazil, which holds the rotating Brics presidency in 2025, announced on January 6 that Indonesia had become a full member of the bloc. Photo: AFP/Brazilian presidency
Asean

Opinion | With Indonesia, Brics is adding Southeast Asia to its power base

With Indonesia joining the grouping and Malaysia and Thailand as partner countries, Brics has acquired not just mineral-rich members but also key Asean voices.

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China energy security

China’s solar farms spread into new regions amid green energy push

Business of climate change

Can China’s solar industry find a solution before it’s too late?

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Climate change

Opinion | How AI giants can help Asian suppliers make a clean energy transition

The likes of Microsoft, Google and Nvidia can invest in clean energy, boost suppliers’ renewables capacity and advocate for better policies.

Google spelled out in heliostats at a joint project solar energy farm in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada border in 2014. Tech giants must take responsibility for their climate impact worldwide, rather than simply exporting their climate impact abroad. Photo: Reuters
Malaysia

Malaysia and Japan to develop green energy projects, Ishiba eyes defence ties

Among their agreements, both countries will jointly develop hydrogen energy and partner in the post-war reconstruction of Gaza.

Taiwan

Opinion | Why Taiwan should reconsider its stance against nuclear energy

Taiwan, near-fully dependent on imported energy, plans to shut its last reactor. Yet renewables like nuclear can support its security and carbon goals.

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Science

China plans to build ‘Three Gorges dam in space’ to harness solar power

Chinese rocket scientist reveals blueprint for ‘incredible project’ to build solar power station in space using super heavy rockets.

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A Long March-5 rocket is seen at the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China. The much larger Long March-9, a reusable heavy-lift rocket, will be used to realise plans for the solar power station in space. Photo: Xinhua via AP
China economy

Opinion | China will rein in vicious competition at the root of its overcapacity

New reforms for a unified national market, including addressing unfair competition, will rein in unchecked competition and the damage it is causing.

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Science

New discoveries raise China’s lithium reserves to second largest in the world

Recent finds, including a massive deposit in Tibet, will help meet demand for metal, which is key for EV batteries and other technologies.

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Banking & finance

Increasing Chinese investments boost Abu Dhabi economy

Investments are creating jobs, developing infrastructure and upping the emirate’s status as a global hub, says investment office director.

People watch a New Year show at the Sheikh Zayed Heritage Festival in Abu Dhabi on January 1, 2025. Photo: AFP
Business of climate change

China’s Trina Solar sets world record for solar conversion technology

The company’s solar module beat the decades old solar cell efficiency record held by University of New South Wales laboratory.

Trina Solar said it would continue to increase its research and development in passivated solar technology to maintain its technology leadership. Photo: Reuters
Energy

China to erase overcapacity in solar-panel industry by 2027: UBS

State-driven curbs on new facilities and production cuts by the biggest players will help rectify imbalance, analyst says.

The Philippines

As energy costs soar, the Philippines eyes a nuclear revival

Reviving a decades-old mothballed plant at Bataan would fast track adoption of nuclear, but concerns about safety and corruption persist.

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Belt and Road Initiative

Opinion | China-Pakistan friendship will hold fast against all weather

Through fatal attacks on China interests in Pakistan and Islamabad’s debt crisis, both countries clung fast to their strategic partnership.

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Chinese Premier Li Qiang with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the Prime Minister’s Office in Islamabad, Pakistan, on October 14. Photo: Xinhua
China energy security

China’s nuclear power drive gains steam as major new reactor comes online

The project in Fujian province is the first example of China’s third-generation Hualong One reactor being put into large-scale commercial operation.

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The first reactor at the Zhangzhou nuclear plant in southeastern China’s Fujian province. The reactor went into commercial operation on New Year’s Day. Photo: Xinhua
Business of climate change

Templewater builds Middle East ties to unlock energy transition potential

Private equity firm eyes opportunities for its entities in vehicle manufacturing and sales distribution in the Gulf Cooperation Council nations.

Diplomacy

Opinion | Dialogue can help China, India sidestep disputes over mega dam

To alleviate concerns and reduce tensions, greater transparency, consistent data sharing and diplomacy are essential.

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China's economic recovery

Cutthroat competition puts China ‘sectors in distress’, economic official warns

The worsening problem of ‘involution’, or neijuan, is forcing Beijing to ramp up rhetoric to overcome a major obstacle to China’s economic growth.

Employees work on an electric-truck assembly line in China’s Jiangsu province. The nation’s EV sector is facing problems from “involution”. Photo: AFP
China-EU relations

Open Questions | ‘Phase 2 China shock is coming’: Adam Tooze on Europe, America and manufacturing

Historian says he worries about escalation in tension between the great powers ‘to the point now of genuine war scares’.

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Climate change

Opinion | After a mixed bag for climate action in 2024, businesses must take the lead

As more governments lurch to the right, firms are feeling a backlash against social and climate action. But the stakes are too high for inaction.

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China manufacturing

In China’s industry, it’s the law of the jungle. How should Beijing intervene?

A storm is gathering strength in China’s overheated industries, and its name is neijuan, as government intervention squares up against the law of the jungle.

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Science

Three Gorges times 3: China will build the largest dam in Earth’s deepest canyon

Hydropower project on Yarlung Tsangpo River could get unprecedented investment to tackle daunting engineering challenges.

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China’s Three Gorges Dam, shown here, ranks first in the world for generating capacity. But a planned project in Tibet could produce triple the amount of electricity. Photo: Xinhua
Business of climate change

Hang Lung pushes for faster decarbonisation in construction sector

Developer urges quicker regulatory progress and pilot programmes to expedite low-carbon material adoption, vital for decarbonising the sector.

France

France’s most powerful nuclear reactor comes on stream after 12-year delay

The delay arose from technical setbacks that saw the cost of the project balloon four times from the original estimate.

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Thailand

Thailand’s hi-tech utopia starts to take shape – but will it deliver?

At its launch seven years ago, the Eastern Economic Corridor was marketed as a solution to Thailand’s economic malaise. But concerns persist.

Thailand’s once-thriving economy, which grew an average of 5 per cent annually in the early 2000s, has been battered by two decades of political turmoil and coups. Image: Huy Truong
US-China relations

Opinion | US-China science pact renewal a ray of hope amid techno-nationalism

The pact sustains targeted collaboration, but it also risks reinforcing emerging scientific blocs, potentially reshaping the global research landscape.

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Business of climate change

Chinese solar inverter maker Deye to invest US$150 million in Malaysia

Company plans to set up a subsidiary in Malaysia to make solar photovoltaic equipment and energy storage products.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | China-UAE ties evolve as Gulf nation acts as global ‘superconnector’

China’s growing heft in innovative industries is driving partnerships with the UAE, HSBC’s country head says.

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