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Tenaga Nasional Berhad finally gets 1,000MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired plant
Tenaga Nasional Berhad finally gets 1,000MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired plant
Southeast Asia's first USC plant has been successfully running for 2 years.
Adani's Carmichael idea is more unbankable than ever: IEEFA
No thanks to missing massive taxpayer subsidies, among others.
Japan clamps down on stalled renewables projects
Around 456,000 projects failed to meet the government's deadline.
Indian utility Tata Power hits zero cash payables
It aims to pull down cash collections from customers.
Philippines-based First Gen secures $500m debt facility
The seven-year term loan facility is with 6 banks.
Asia Pacific to eat up almost 41% of global solar capacity additions
Thanks to significant would-be growths in China, India, and Japan.
Indonesia expects over 200MW of geothermal capacity to come online this year
Thanks to the first 110MW of the Sarulla geothermal plant.
Brace yourselves for a "slight reduction" in India's new solar capacity
The slide will start in 2018 and will pick up iby 2019.
Back to the future? – A shakeup in industrial solar
Michael Graetzel of Switzerland, is announced as the winner of the 2017 Global Energy Prize for his “transcendent merits in the development of low...
Electricity arm of Puducherry, India, opens interest experession for 30MW solar
Any bid below 10MW will not be considered.
Philippines' energy agency clears 7 renewable projects
These have been approved to proceed with grid impact studies.
Decommissioning plans finally get approved for five Japanese reactors
These are Genkai 1, Mihama 1 and 2, Shimane 1, and Tsuruga 1.
India targets auctions for 4GW of wind power
This is in addition to 750MW of solar it will tender in May.
India's power supply deficit hit 0.7% in FY2016-2017
It was the lowest since the government started monitoring in 1992.
750MW Bhadla Solar Park tender oversubscribed by 12 times
Benchmark price is at ~$0.0590/kWh.
EPC firm Essar Projects India hit 10 commissioned projects
These projects are worth Rs 2,862 crore.
Malakoff's profit down 21% to US$80.9m
No thanks to lower contributions from Port Dickson Power Berhad.
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