A RM200 e-rebate will be given to users who purchase locally-made refrigerators and air conditioners that have a four or five star energy rating in 2021. The Sustainability Achieved via Energy Efficiency (Save 2.0) programme will be given an allocation of RM30mil under Budget 2021 and is expected to benefit 140,000 households.

A  team of scientists has recently developed “transparent photovoltaic” (TPV) devices—transparent versions of the traditional solar cell. Unlike the conventionally dark, opaque solar cells (which absorb visible light), TPVs make use of the “invisible” light that falls in the ultraviolet (UV) range. These transparent solar cells could take us towards a new era of personalised energy, integrated into windows, vehicles, cellphone screens, and other everyday products.

TENAGA Nasional Bhd’s (TNB) unit TNB Energy Services Sdn Bhd has inked a smart energy efficiency (SEE) agreement with Institut Teknologi Petroleum Petronas (INSTEP), Kuala Terengganu that will save INSTEP about 407,880 kWh of energy per year.

The British High Commission has announced a £2.5 million grant for businesses in Malaysia to support projects focused on green finance, energy and climate action enabling environment (CAEE). The call for project proposals has been launched under the UK PACT programme, part of the UK Government’s International Climate Finance commitments to support partner countries in mitigating climate change.

Storing fuel in salt caverns isn’t new, but hydrogen’s growing role in decarbonization has revitalized interest in the concept. The Advanced Clean Energy Storage project aims to build the world’s largest storage facility for 1,000 megawatts of clean power, partly by putting hydrogen into underground salt caverns.  

The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy and land resources has found that globalisation may be decreasing, rather than increasing, the security of global supply chains.

The executive vice-president of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, has delivered a key update on the next steps for Europe’s climate ambitions during an interview with the International Energy Agency (IEA), including a focus on energy justice, the electrification of homes and options for decarbonising the transport sectors.

Earlier this year, State Street, one of the world’s largest asset managers, threw its support behind a shareholder petition urging Japanese bank Mizuho to disclose more information about how it is aligning its investments with the Paris agreement on climate change.

The little red dot wants a greener energy mix and is taking multiple steps to achieve this - from an electricity import pilot with Malaysia, to soaking up more sunshine at home and investing in research on emerging low-carbon technologies.

Saudi Arabia's energy minister said on Monday (Oct 26) the world should be looking at all options to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases in its fight against climate change, but that getting rid of oil and gas would be "far-fetched and unrealistic".

The pandemic is dismantling energy efficiency in a few ways: It has stalled retrofits in homes and buildings given the fear of close contact. This has also cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. Society’s immediate response is wasting a lot of energy, such as big buildings sitting mostly empty but still guzzling energy, public transit still moving but carrying few passengers, increased single-use plastic.

At the BloombergNEF Summit, executives from some of the world’s biggest fossil-fuel and utility groups have traded verbal blows about each other’s abilities to lead the energy transition. The back-and-forth came as oil & gas majors set increasingly ambitious targets in renewable energy sectors such as wind that were pioneered by utility groups and, in the case of Shell, openly aim to become the world’s largest power business.