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How Chinese solar practices are actually good for the industry

What is it about the Chinese solar industry that scares us so much? Is it truly a fear that distorted market prices will lead to large-scale bankruptcies in the West?

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How Chinese solar practices are actually good for the industry

What is it about the Chinese solar industry that scares us so much? Is it truly a fear that distorted market prices will lead to large-scale bankruptcies in the West?

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India’s power sector reeling under fuel resource crunch

Energy is pivotal to the growth of a country’s economy. India’s robust and sustained growth has resulted in strong demand for clean and economical energy resources.

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How to get the 'right mix' of power generation in Asia

Demand for electricity today is growing faster than production.

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Check out how offshore wind in Taiwan has developed

Taiwan is an island that highly relies on import energy to sustain the power supply of the country.

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Will amendments to bid norms jeopardazie private sector power investment in India

India is the fourth largest electricity network in the world with a gross generation capacity of 211 GW. The country which is growing at an average GDP growth rate of 6% plans to add 88,000 MW by the end of the current five-year plan (2012-2017).

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UAE’s diversified approach to tackle challenge of power demand

The UAE continues to enjoy double digit real annual GDP growth rates, nearly of 10 percent, but facing a challenging task to quench the thirst of power demand.

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Exploring the perfect market for energy and energy transition in Asia (Part 2)

Doing nothing is not an option.

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Funding for India’s waste-to-energy sector

Obtaining a Power Purchase Agreement (“PPA”) with a highly rated, financially strong electric utility is one of the key success factors for the financing of a growing pipeline of waste-to-energy (“WTE”) plants across India.

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When solar capacity and demand meet in 2015

Oversupply increased in 2012 as global production capacity rose 10 GW while demand rose less than 3 GW as Chinese manufacturers, such as Yingli, which added 600 MW, and Trina, which added 500 MW of capacity in 2012, continue to increase capacity.

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Exploring the perfect market for energy and energy transition in Asia (Part 1)

Discussions and dialogues between peers and professionals, at times, centre around the question:

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What Asia should learn from Latin America about PV net metering

The deployment of PV has seen a dramatic increase in the last decade and is poised to take over wind in this decade as wind reaches its “easy-to-reach” potential and solar is barely starting to penetrate the generation mix worldwide.

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Concept for “Three Articles in One” on our Energy Market: Transition, Merit Order, Tipping Point (Part 3)

A free market where the present lowest cost fuel solution wins. per se and per definition.

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Concept for “Three Articles in One” on our Energy Market: Transition, Merit Order, Tipping Point (Part 2)

Doing nothing is not an option.

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TSMC show-and-tell: a 15.1% total area efficient champion CIGS module

TSMC recently announced a 1.09 m2 champion copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) module with a 15.1% total area efficiency. The module was produced using the current equipment at the company’s 100 MW capacity facility in Taiwan with its process licensed from Stion. The company claims a world record for monolithic thin-film modules, although Miasolé (purchased by Hanergy) demonstrated a 15.5% aperture area efficient 1.68 m2 discretely integrated (non-monolithic) flexible module.

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Reality check: Are Indian utilities prepared for smart metering?

Smart metering and Smart grid in electricity sector recently have attracted much attention to improve the performance of power utilities. Many countries in the West including USA, Canada and within the EU are already involved in smart metering on pilot projects or in selective roll out for specific urban areas.

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What the “Hot Winter” in Japan is all about

The months of November and December saw a huge influx of FIT applications submitted to METI and the respective Utility Companies. Reason behind was the fact that the first revision of the current FIT is due by end of March 2013, after which the new tariffs will become effective from April onward. Considering an application period around 3 months, makes end of December a cutoff date to secure the current rates.

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The dangers of mishandled flow-accelerated corrosion

Many power generation facilities have been constructed or are under development in Asia. Thus, many plant personnel will encounter issues related to water/steam chemistry.

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