Korea's National Fusion Research Institute announced in November that plasma operation at 100 million degrees Celsius, an essential requirement for nuclear fusion, successfully continued for 30 seconds during the latest tests at the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) facility.

China aims to reach more than 1,200 GW of installed wind and solar capacity by 2030.

In 2018, China became the world's 2nd largest LNG importer in the world behind Japan. LNG imports amounted to 90.5 bcm in 2020 (+12%). Australia is the largest LNG supplier (44%), followed by Qatar (12%) and Malaysia (9%).

Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL), through its subsidiary Central Transmission Utility of India (CTU), had earlier filed a petition to execute power transmission infrastructures for up to 18.5 GW of renewables energy zones in southern India

The world's top greenhouse gas emitter is aiming to bring its carbon emissions to a peak by 2030 and become "carbon-neutral" by 2060.

“As an increasing number of states pursue nuclear energy, decommissioning and waste management as well as nuclear security are two components essential for its sustainable use” said Toshio Kodama, President of JAEA. “JAEA is determined to work together with the IAEA in this scheme to contribute to the international community in these two important areas.”

The rapid reduction of emissions necessary to cope with climate change will have a huge impact on Vietnam’s energy industry, and is possibly closely linked to short-term policies to develop new and renewable energy sources,

Ca Voi Xanh, one of the largest gas fields discovered in Vietnam, also involves building a pipeline connecting the field to a gas processing plant and associated power and plants.

"The partnership with Hyundai Engineering & Construction enhances our ability to deliver SMR-160 projects on schedule and at a competitive price," Holtec Senior Vice President of International Projects Rick Springman said.

"A total of 8 to 16 coal-fired power plants will be offline from Dec. 1 to Feb. 28 as part of efforts to reduce fine dust emissions in the winter period," the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said in a statement.

China, India, Japan, South Korea and the UK will join the US in releasing strategic oil stocks, the White House said, without giving further details.

China has been ramping up gas supply from all sources including pipeline gas contracts with Central Asia.

The Vietnamese government on Nov. 19 held a conference to discuss possible changes to its draft power development plan over 2021-2030 with a vision to 2045, called PDP8, which provides the road map for its power sector including an exhaustive list of proposed projects.

China's total trading volume of greenhouse gas voluntary emissions reduction had exceeded 334 million mtCO2e, with turnover approaching Yuan 3 billion (approx. $469 million),

Coal stocks at ports and power plants have been picking up quickly, with stocks in power plants hitting 129 million tonnes as of Nov. 14 and expected to hit 140 million tonnes by the end of November,