ADB Supports India’s Covid-19 Response Through Record Annual Lending Updated On Mon, May 17th, 2021 by Saurenergy Manila-headquartered Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Thursday that it had committed $3.92 billion in sovereign loans for 13 projects to India in 2020, including $1.8 billion in projects to support the Government of India’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic response. This is ADB’s highest-ever annual lending commitment to India since the start of its lending operations […] Read more
Hyundai Motor Group to Invest $7.4 billion in U.S. EV industry by 2025 Updated On Fri, May 14th, 2021 by Saurenergy In a press release yesterday, Hyundai Motor Group (HMG), comprising Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation, announced its plan to invest $7.4 billion in the U.S. by 2025 to produce future EVs, enhance production facilities and further its investments in smart mobility solutions. The group’s investment will enhance overall product competitiveness by prioritising future mobility technologies, […] Read more
Vietnam’s PDP8 Delay Can Unlock More Cost-Effective RE: IEEFA Updated On Fri, May 14th, 2021 by Saurenergy The key is to refine new strategies and improve market structures Vietnam’s Power Development Master Plan for 2021-2030 with a vision to 2045 (PDP8), was expected to be signed off at the end of March during the last days of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s administration, but it hit an unexpected delay. Rather than being […] Read more
TATA Power’s Q4 FY21 Results: Revenues Jump 50% Updated On Fri, May 14th, 2021 by Saurenergy Mumbai-based electric utility company Tata Power Limited released its financial results for the fourth quarter of FY21 ended March 31, 2021, announcing a marginal rise of one per cent in consolidated net profit at Rs 481.21 crore (Rs 474.70 crore in the year-ago period), due to saving in finance cost offset by an exceptional gain […] Read more
Suncor and ATCO Partner to Produce Clean Hydrogen in Alberta Updated On Wed, May 12th, 2021 by Saurenergy Two Canadian energy companies, Suncor and ATCO have announced that they will be working together to build a clean hydrogen project near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta with an estimate to produce 300,000 tonnes of clean hydrogen per year. The clean hydrogen project is in the early stages of developments including design and engineering. This project would […] Read more
Global Finance is Mobilising to Meet East Asia’s Net-Zero Ambition: IEEFA Updated On Wed, May 12th, 2021 by Saurenergy Bolder emissions reduction targets by China, Japan and South Korea threaten Australian fossil fuel exports Chinese President Xi Jinping’s surprise announcement at the UN General Assembly in September 2020 that the world’s biggest emitter would become carbon neutral by 2060 has proved pivotal, writes Tim Buckley, IEEFA’s Director Energy Finance Studies, Australia/South Asia, in a […] Read more
PLI Scheme for Solar Manufacturing to Benefit Incremental Demand till FY30: Report Updated On Wed, May 12th, 2021 by Saurenergy According to a new report India’s solar modules manufacturing under production linked incentive (PLI) scheme will benefit incremental panels demand till the financial year 2030 (FY30). Ind-Ra estimates that the allocation of INR 45 billion towards the solar modules manufacturing industry by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) can benefit the sales of […] Read more
EnBW Financial Results Q1 2021: Earnings Decrease “Temporarily” Updated On Tue, May 11th, 2021 by Saurenergy German electric utility company EnBW Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg AG (ETR:EBK), headquartered in Karlsruhe, yesterday released the financial results of the first quarter of 2021. The company said that due to temporary effects, it reported slightly lower first-quarter earnings in 2021 than in the previous year. This is expected to even out over the course of the […] Read more
ADB to End Fossil Fuel Financing, No Timeline Committed Updated On Tue, May 11th, 2021 by Saurenergy The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced on Friday that it will not finance coal mining or oil and natural gas activities in the future, as a result of a draft energy policy supporting low carbon transition in Asia and the Pacific. Set up in the early 1960s and headquartered in Manila, the ADB has since channelled […] Read more
