Environment

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.

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.