energy prices

‘Stressed’: Singapore businesses rattled by higher electricity and gas prices

As companies face a narrower window to secure supply, protect margins and manage energy costs, the turn to renewables is no longer just an ESG box to tick.

Waiting to transition to renewables is a losing game for companies

The EU’s internal electricity market uses a marginal pricing model, whereby the most expensive megawatt hour needed to meet all demand sets the price for the entire market.

Is a European single market for energy such a good idea?

In two years, distributed solar capacity could nearly triple to 3,500 megawatts, the size of the Philippines’ utility-scale solar fleet, says energy think tank Ember.

Philippines leads the world in rush to solar as power prices soar

Analysts expect oil to hover at around US$80 a barrel by the year-end.

Crude oil ‘caught up in cautious enthusiasm’ over US-Iran peace deal, but analysts don’t expect further price easing soon

GoRental’s EH-ONE+ battery energy storage system allows for decentralised, clean power use on construction sites.

As Singapore’s construction sector goes green, portable ‘power banks’ are leading the charge

An oil refinery in China, which at the end of 2025 had the largest strategic petroleum reserve with 1.4 billion barrels held back.
THE BOTTOM LINE

China has a powerful new oil price weapon

Reopening the Strait of Hormuz would provide relief across Asia, which consumed about 90 per cent of the oil flowing through the waterway.

Asia’s oil-thirsty economies cautiously welcome US-Iran deal

Surveys show that people expect higher inflation than what official data or forecasts say, with grocery and energy prices shaping these views disproportionately. 

Are we in an affordability crisis?

It could take six to eight months in the best-case scenario to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if an agreement was reached today, says an IEA official.

IEA sees possibility of critically low oil stockpiles ahead of peak summer demand