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Hydroelectric dams have proliferated across Southeast Asia in recent years but experts say wind energy is now set to take off.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Tuesday reviewed plans to raise renewable energy’s share of Egypt’s electricity mix to 45% by 2028, bringing forward and increasing the previous target of 42% by 2030. The plans also cover battery storage, green hydrogen, desalination and the local processing of black-sand minerals and rare elements. Al-Sisi met with Prime [

WA's environmental watchdog releases for public comment a plan for a mega gas-fired power plant on the same day the state government trumpets an ambitious plan to almost double renewable energy generation.

Without central planning or public resources, people in developing countries are pursuing an ad hoc energy transition.

The "drill, baby, drill" president's Middle Eastern assault has accelerated the green energy transition — but will it be enough?