Electricity

China’s electricity use hits record in 2025, surpasses 10 trillion kWh

[SHANGHAI] China’s electricity consumption climbed 5 per cent to a record high last year, surpassing 10 trillion kilowatt-hours for the first time, the National Energy Administration said on Saturday.

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Trump has repeatedly described power plants being built alongside data centres.

Trump moves to make tech giants pay for surging power costs

The grid operator serves more than 67 million people from the Mid-Atlantic to the Midwest

Laotian state utility Electricite Du Laos will pay Tenaga Nasional Berhad for the wheeling services, to transmit energy generated in Laos to Singapore.

Malaysia state utility signs deal to transmit energy from Laos to Singapore

Move revives cross-border project, allowing up to 100 megawatts of generation capacity in Laos to supply power to Singapore

Blackstone is merging MPS, which manufactures parts for the electrical grid, with Power Grid Components, a supplier it acquired in 2023.

Blackstone eyes US$2.6 billion of debt to finance power merger

Electricity demand is soaring globally as the data centres needed for Big Tech’s artificial intelligence objectives put pressure on power grids

SP Group says the energy cost component of the electricity tariffs for each quarter is set using the average natural gas prices in the first two and a half months in the preceding quarter.

Household electricity tariffs to fall 3% in Q1 2026 on lower energy costs

Decline will translate into a S$3.17 reduction in average monthly electricity bills for families living in four-room HDB flats

Trump Media and Technology Group will be the holding company for businesses including Truth Social, TAE Power Solutions and TAE Life.

Trump Media, fusion power firm TAE Technologies combine in US$6 billion deal

Under the deal, shareholders of both companies will own about 50% of the combined entity

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (with raised hand) visited the Nhon Trach 3 and 4 LNG-fired power plants on Dec 14.

Vietnam switches on first LNG-fired power plants, plans 20 more by 2035

Early liquefied natural gas imports have come from Indonesia, Malaysia, Qatar and Russia, with growing interest in US supplies

Bitcoin mining in Malaysia is legal as long as operators obtain power properly and pay taxes.

Bitcoin miners hunted after stealing US$1 billion of electricity from Malaysia grid

Cracking down on illegal Bitcoin mining gangs has become a cat-and-mouse game in the country