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Energy & Commodities

US looks to boost strategic uranium reserve for nuclear power

The country’s corporate tax rate is 20%, but Vietnam has for years offered large foreign investors effective rates as low as 5 per cent and extended tax vacations.
ASEAN Business

Vietnam to exempt Mitsubishi, Kepco, other coal power plant operators from global tax, document shows

Beijing has recently built up a new cross-regional pipeline to increase imports from Central Asia.
Energy & Commodities

China’s limp LNG demand faces more hurdles from Guangdong reform

Tthe government in Jakarta is considering export levies on coal, which will only weaken the fuel’s attractiveness for buyers in China.
Energy & Commodities

China shuns low-grade coal from Indonesia as imports collapse

Carbon capture and storage costs for natural gas are the highest among fuel types that Singapore uses for electricity generation.
ESG Insights
ESG Insights

Issue 155: Singapore’s natural gas challenge; Temasek keeps bets on renewables

Such energy storage systems help to enhance stability in the electricity grid at a time when there are greater supplies of solar and wind power.
Global Enterprise

Tesla to build first grid-scale power plant in China

The growth of energy-intensive sectors, such as data centres, has put power grids in Asia Pacific under strain, threatening reliability.
Property

Apac data centre boom straining power grids; reliability key to site selection: report 

Excavators unloading coal from rail cars into a coal storage facility in Shandong province. Coal accounts for more than half of the electricity generated in China.
Energy & Commodities

China’s power prices nosedive, providing relief to tariff-hit factories

The effort is a bid to meet a coming surge in electricity demand and help the US reclaim its edge in nuclear energy.
International

Trump signs orders to revive US leadership in nuclear power

Vingroup recorded a net profit of 5.25 trillion dong (S$274 million) in 2024, up 155 per cent from the preceding year and exceeding its target.
ASEAN Business

Vietnam’s Vingroup proposes up to US$30 billion in power projects by 2030

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