Environment
Alstom to supply wind turbines for Eurus wind farm in Japan
Alstom to supply wind turbines for Eurus wind farm in Japan
Alstom will supply 10 of its wind turbines for the wind farm at Kawazu.
Hong Kong needs to be more energy efficient
Buildings should be more energy efficient to save power to help transform Hong Kong into a low carbon city.
Japan to beef up transmission system
Upgrade triggered by plan to triple wind power capacity.
Coal stocks up in China
Large drop in electricity consumption leads to large coal inventories.
China comes to rescue of the UK’s nuclear program
State-owned China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group could build four nuclear plants.
India challenges discrimination against US solar cell imports
Will respond this week to charges of “forced localization”.
Japanese government opposes TEPCO bidding
TEPCO bidding plan for coal-fired thermal plants should be put on hold.
Japan wants to triple wind power capacity
The target is 7.5 million kilowatts by 2023.
Australia aims to halve solar thermal cost
Increases funding for concentrating solar power technologies.
Meralco to invest US$5 billion on expansion
Says projects will improve its distribution network.
Petron sets aside US$1.3 billion for capital expenditures
Part of capex to fund expansion in Malaysia.
China again leads the world in new wind installations
Total installations in 2012 were over one-third of all new capacity worldwide.
Japanese garments maker enters solar power business
Generous feed-in tariff entices Gunze Ltd to venture into solar.
PNOC seeks power plant investors
Will build coal-fired power plants in two Philippine provinces.
Tsuruga nuclear plant might be shut down
A government report says it rests on an active earthquake fault line.
Korea to build 1,000 MW power plant in Balochistan
Solar energy electricity plant will ease power shortfall in the Pakistani province.
China should do more to fight pollution
White paper urges mult-pollution controls in coal-burning power plants.
Commentary
Managing risk for Indonesia’s conventional power sector in a decarbonising economy