Renewable energy

Solar-powered cars? NTU team creates ultra-thin, semi-transparent solar cells that may go on windows

Associate Professor Annalisa Bruno, from the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and School of Materials Science and Engineering at NTU, holding up a 400nm film (left) and a 10nm film that was developed by researchers at the Energy Research Institute @ NTU.

Eight start-ups to compete for funding awards totalling up to $4m at sustainability challenge final

A panel comprising leaders from government, finance, industry and the technical community selecting finalists during a shortlisting session in March 2026 for the sustainability challenge.

China burns more fossil fuels for power as coal production slips

Thermal power generation rose 3.1 per cent in April 2026 compared to a year ago, while domestic benchmark thermal coal prices rose 23 per cent since the start of 2026.

Grid reforms vital to powering South-east Asia’s green growth: Report

Power grids in South-East Asia urgently need more investment and urgent reforms to expand and modernise, says the report.

Clean energy seen as ‘structurally immune’ to Hormuz-style shock

A wind turbine and solar panels in the Grand Renewable Energy Park in South Cayuga, Ontario, Canada, on May 4, 2026.

Protests break out in Cuba as power cuts deepen amid US oil blockade

Blackouts have increased dramatically this week and last across the capital Havana, with many neighbourhoods without light for 20 to 22 hours a day.

China green tech titans woo new consumers hit by Iran war energy shock

China's Jinko Solar inked two deals at the end of April with partners in Nigeria – in a region where diesel prices have soared 40 per cent since the start of the Iran war.

India’s data centre boom is straining its power grid

A data centre in Bengaluru, India. Electricity demand to power a data centre boom in India is set to soar by 2030.

Microsoft in talks to shelve 2030 clean energy target as AI gobbles up power

Microsoft says it’s been adding about a gigawatt of data centre capacity every three months.

Commentary

Oil markets and prices will not be the same after UAE’s OPEC exit

The headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna. For OPEC, losing the UAE is not a flesh wound, but an amputation.

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