Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) has secured £120 million (RM651.6 million) financing from Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) for its wind assets in the UK operated by its indirect, wholly owned unit Tenaga Wind Ventures UK Ltd.

Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) have developed procedures and designs to obtain energy from marine currents in areas of great depths optimizing the costs.

Australia will allocate A$30 million (RM91 million) to help Asean to develop cities across South-east Asia in smart and sustainable ways for the next five years.

Following in Apple's footsteps, Microsoft has purchased 100 percent of the renewable output from Sunseap Group's new 60MW solar project and will use it to power datacentre operations in Singapore.

Smart cities can help to overcome the strain on urban resources brought upon by rapid urbanisation, an aging population, and a changing energy climate. This would help ASEAN meet its long-term sustainable development goals.  

Lifestyle service companies could transform tomorrow's energy markets, competing to deliver what their customers need. The popularity of solar panels, smart meters, and electric vehicles are all serving to establish energy as a 'lifestyle' play amongst a growing band of environmentally minded consumers.  

Several new initiatives on solar PV in Malaysia, such as auction and net metering, has shown significant progress, and Malaysia is considering the possibility of including wind energy in its feed-in-tariff scheme. The country also issued the world’s first green Islamic bond to finance sustainable, climate-resilient growth projects.

A KAIST research team developed a new hybrid energy storage device that employs aqueous electrolytes instead of flammable organic solvents, so it is both environmentally friendly and safe.  

As more people start to drive electric vehicles over longer distances, the need for a large-scale charging network will become increasingly pressing.  

Statoil recently announced that its pioneering offshore floating wind farm, Hywind Scotland, achieved an astounding 65 percent capacity factor from November through January. The new generation of offshore wind surpasses the capacity factor of thermal generation.  

A team of researchers led by Eli Stavitski from the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York revealed a proof-of-concept CO2-CO converter that uses atoms embedded in a graphene sheet and achieves an efficiency of up...

With some clear connections between the fantasies of "Black Panther" and actual innovation happening in the real world, the article takes a closer look at a some of the most exciting technologies featured in "Black Panther," and how close these technologies are to becoming reality.