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Latest news and analysis about non-fossil fuel energy, including electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells, solar, wind and wave energy.

In the Gobi Desert outside Golmud, Qinghai, a facility is using compressed air to store energy. Photo: Handout

China to power up world’s largest ‘super-cold air battery’ in the Gobi Desert

Facility runs for 10 hours straight and will produce 180 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, powering 30,000 homes.

29 Dec 2025 - 2:44PMvideocam

India’s new law to fuel energy needs, drive nuclear power growth

24 Dec 2025 - 5:35PMvideocam

Shenhua absorbs coal assets as it looks to the future in a decarbonising China

24 Dec 2025 - 2:00PMvideocam

As I see it | China is now the good guy in climate change

The US is playing down global warming and pushing its oil and gas on the world while China is helping others to adopt renewables.

24 Dec 2025 - 9:30AMvideocam

Workers carry solar panels to install them at a solar farm in the desert, in Lingwu, in China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region, on April 14. Photo: Reuters

Opinion | Forget the US dollar. Watch water and energy resources instead

In our increasingly hi-tech-based economy and financial systems, energy and water resources will be macroeconomically critical.

23 Dec 2025 - 9:30AMvideocam

Opinion | Why China has moved to curb steel exports

China’s pivot to emerging markets has kept its export machine running. But frictions are growing and steel is the most visible flashpoint.

23 Dec 2025 - 7:49AM

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Opinion | Arguing about China’s overcapacity overlooks its drive for clean energy

What is often described as overcapacity is the outcome of a development strategy that treats energy as the foundation of economic capability.

21 Dec 2025 - 4:30PMvideocam

Fields of solar panels at a power station in Weining, Guizhou province, in China on July 3. Photo: Xinhua

Business of climate change

Video | Australian start-up aims to turn algae into green fuel

Algenie says its helical photobioreactor could offer a cost-effective, scalable solution for the algae biotech industry, allowing algae to be grown at industrial scale.

19 Dec 2025 - 4:00PM

Made in China 2025

Can rising lithium costs save China’s energy storage firms from a price war?

China’s battery makers raise prices amid lithium rebound and global AI energy demand.

19 Dec 2025 - 2:00PM

Electric & new energy vehicles

China’s EV battery giants wade into shipbuilding to bolster Beijing’s dominance

CATL and Gotion add momentum to China’s efforts to build new-energy vessels amid an accelerated decarbonisation drive.

14 Dec 2025 - 9:00AM

A vessel powered by CATL batteries. Photo: Handout

US green tech retreat echoes mistake of China’s Qing dynasty before collapse

While Washington pulls back on climate, Beijing is making it possible for developing nations to leapfrog into a cleaner energy era.

13 Dec 2025 - 7:07AMvideocam

Illustration: Henry Wong

Opinion | How China is cementing its central role as the architect of green tech

Beyond climate leadership and capacity building, China is rewriting its own energy system – and the global energy order.

11 Dec 2025 - 4:30PMvideocam

India-EU trade pact nears finish line despite carbon tax dispute and Russia

Brussels is looking past India’s ties with Moscow to secure a vital economic win, with analysts predicting a deal within months.

10 Dec 2025 - 5:00PM

China manufacturing

‘China threat’ narrative a ‘complete mislabelling’, economist Jin Keyu says

At a recent summit, the economist said China has been a ‘benefactor’ by lowering the cost of technology for developing economies.

10 Dec 2025 - 10:05AM

Economist Jin Keyu at a 2023 Ted Talk. Photo: Handout

Opinion | How Hong Kong can distinguish itself as a climate finance hub

The city should lead by directing capital to projects that modernise grids, electrify transport and accelerate green supply chains.

9 Dec 2025 - 9:30AMvideocam

Hong Kong already ranks among the world’s leading financial centres and leads Asia in green and sustainable bond issuance. Photo: Sam Tsang

China desalination tech makes fresh water cheaper than tap water – plus hydrogen

Facility in Shandong province also produces mineral-rich brine for industrial use, achieving ‘one-in, three-out’ circular economy.

8 Dec 2025 - 1:22AMvideocam

India to pause coal power expansion beyond 2035 amid grid stress

Several Indian utilities are signing contracts with coal-fired power generators to meet a projected surge in demand for cooling.

8 Dec 2025 - 2:50AM

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Opinion | Fashion industry must tailor climate plans to Asian suppliers’ reality

Efforts to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions in the fashion industry will not work if they rest on a Western design paired with Eastern sacrifice.

7 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM

A worker holds a piece of clothing at a factory in Depok, Indonesia, on April 25, 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/ADI WEDA

Americas and the Caribbean

Cuba starts restoring power to Havana, as millions suffer blackouts

A failed transmission line connecting Havana to Cuba’s largest power plant in Matanzas triggered the morning blackout.

3 Dec 2025 - 11:36PM

Electric & new energy vehicles

Opinion | Battery revolution set to spark Global South’s century of prosperity

The rise of the sodium-ion battery promises to supercharge a green energy transition that will help level the global playing field.

2 Dec 2025 - 4:30PMvideocam

Opinion | How Cop30 laid bare the new geopolitics of climate action

Fractures, even among the Global South, show the energy transition is not just a technical challenge but a deeply political negotiation.

28 Nov 2025 - 8:30PMvideocam

Illustration: Craig Stephens

Amid global fusion energy race, Europe’s top nuclear minds are betting on China

Frustrated by Western delays, top scientists have joined China’s BEST fusion project as it nears ‘uncharted territory’.

26 Nov 2025 - 12:44PMvideocam

Targeted for completion in 2027, the Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) in Hefei is rapidly attracting international talent frustrated by slow progress elsewhere. Photo: Xinhua

Nuclear tech milestone: China’s supercritical generator connects to grid

Supercritical carbon dioxide power system in southwest China is the world’s first commercial unit of its kind.

25 Nov 2025 - 12:32AMvideocam

Opinion | China’s quiet climate leadership offers hope for Global South and world

The Global North is failing to deliver on its climate pledges while Beijing patiently lays the groundwork for a greener future.

25 Nov 2025 - 7:44AMvideocam

The Philippines

‘Please stop’: Philippines nickel mining boom brings floods and failed crops

Nickel is vital to the global green transition, but its extraction is bringing environmental disaster to Filipinos on the front line.

23 Nov 2025 - 2:00PM

Nickel mining operations are seen near Cagdianao, Dinagat Island, on November 8. Photo: Jeoffrey Maitem

Why China’s mega coal-fired power plants thrive amid green energy boom

Gansu province is a leading source of solar and wind-powered energy, but cannot yet end its reliance on carbon-heavy power sources.

22 Nov 2025 - 8:19AMvideocam

Illustration: Brian Wang

Pikachu protest at Cop30 takes on Japan’s fossil fuel empire

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation financed over US$7 billion in loans for coal and gas projects from 2016 to 2024, study shows.

15 Nov 2025 - 2:30PM

Outside In | Takeaway from Cop30: climate action needs to be up close and local

A focus on adaptation means a pivot to action on floods, typhoons, heatstroke deaths, wildfire damage – issues of immediate survival.

14 Nov 2025 - 4:30PMvideocam

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