By Andy Mukherjee SINGAPORE, Nov 18 (Reuters Breakingviews) – By cutting Indonesia’s wasteful fuel subsidies in his very first month as president, Joko Widodo has established his reformist credentials. He has also nudged a flabby economy to place a tentative foot onto the...

By Manoj Kumar and Tony Munroe NEW DELHI/SEOUL (Reuters) – India is hoping a new China-backed multilateral lender will fund coal-based energy projects, an official said, putting it in direct conflict with the World Bank, whose chief has maintained that it would stick to its restrictions on...

Indonesia will build a 5,000-megawatt power plant in Cilacap, Central Java, as part of the new government’s ambitious program to have at least an additional 35,000 MW of power within five years.

Coal has been the world’s fastest growing energy source for a decade. That’s largely been driven by China. Increasingly, though, it’s about India too, which has important climate implications.

Chris Uhlmann reported this story on Monday, November 3, 2014 08:04:33 CHRIS UHLMANN: Stephen Galilee is the chief executive of the New South Wales Mineral Council. Stephen Galilee, if you could give us some context, what are coal exports worth to Australia each year? STEPHEN GALILEE: Well...

Newly elected and reelected leaders in Brazil, India, and Indonesia have a new impetus to jump-start reforms in their countries: falling global oil prices. Since July, the commodity has declined nearly 25 percent in value. While the reasons and benefits behind this cheap oil may be hazy, one policy...

Southeast Asia’s biggest economy is suffering because of a drop in demand from China for its commodity exports such as coal and rubber, and tightened monetary policy, which was implemented last year to stem capital outflows. Mr Widodo, who took office last month, has pledged to boost...

State-owned electricity company PT PLN (Persero) has said it is ready to develop power plants with a total capacity of 15,000 Megawatts (MW) within five years, starting from 2015. “From the government’s program to develop 35,000-MW power plants by 2020, PLN is ready to build power...

The Yomiuri Shimbun Electricity from coal is the cheapest energy to produce at ¥7.8 per kilowatt-hour, followed by nuclear power at ¥8, according to provisional calculations by a private research institute. The calculations were prepared by the Research Institute of Innovative Technology...

DON’T write thermal coal off yet. The combination of very high power prices in Japan, new technology and the fact that world temperatures have not increased in the last decade is giving coal another chance given its low price. Japan went for nuclear power in a way that was matched by few...