Japan’s Ricoh has designed a micro hydropower system for sewage plants that could potentially be used in combination with ground-mounted solar or floating PV. The system features a sustainable water ...

A micro-hydro system that is environment-friendly and requires the participation of the villagers is generating waves in rural Sabah and Sarawak. IMAGINE if you will, a small village in the remotest ...

Rural villages along the Papar River in Sabah, Malaysia are getting electrical infrastructure for the first time by building micro-hydropower systems. The proposed Kaiduan Dam would flood the Ulu ...

Hengbung, a remote village in Manipur, has a first-of-its-kind utility worth replicating elsewhere too — a micro solar pumped storage facility supplying 24x7 power to 50 households. Today, large-scale ...

The small Himalayan nation of Bhutan is especially vulnerable to the impact of climate change, facing glacial lake outburst floods and dramatic shifts in rainfall patterns. Bhutan is nearly unique in ...

PETALING JAYA: A whopping RM300 for a few hours of electricity per day. This is the sum some villagers in rural Sabah had to fork out for electricity in a month. Their livelihoods are centred around ...