Power Utility

Smart Grids for the future – but what about today?

With the deployment of renewable energy technologies exponentially increasing annually, more resources are being allocated to all aspects of the...

Here comes the sun: Where to from here for the Chinese Solar industry?

The first quarter of 2011 has seen a Y/Y decline in demand for solar PV modules, exposing several privately held Chinese PV manufacturers to...

Can biomass power generation play a meaningful role in our power needs?

Understandably with each natural catastrophe, man-made or otherwise, the overwhelming case for renewable energy as a core constituent to our power...

20 years of Asia-Pacific wholesale electricity market development

17 March 1991. Just 20 years ago, I set foot in Asia Pacific for the first time. Since then, major changes have occurred in the landscape of Asia...

Asian Power - Exciting (and Frustrating)

In 1997, after 17 years in the UK energy industry, I joined an investment bank, I moved to Hong Kong, and I began to cover the Asian power sector...

Smart Grid Security in the presence of plug-in electric vehicles

Smart Grid is the modernization of the existing power grid using digital technology in order to derive a number of benefits such as energy efficiency...

CMC emerges as lone bidder for Barapukuria coal extraction

The CMC consortium is the lone bidder for future coal extraction and management of the Barapukuria coalmine.

Innovalight to sell Grandway Wonice products to Taiwanese firms

Innovalight will sell Grandway Wonice Technology's silicon ink and advanced process technology to solar PV cell and panel manufacturers in Taiwan...

GE to introduce 660, 800MW steam turbines in India

General Electric will introduce 660 and 800 MW supercritical steam turbines in India this year.

Solutia's Suzhou manufacturing facility ready for production

Solutia's new manufacturing facility in Suzhou was ready to supply commercial-grade Vistasolar EVA encapsulant.

China Wind Systems to supply more solar chambers subassemblies

China Wind Systems, Inc. received a total of two purchase orders from its customer to deliver 40 solar chamber subassemblies.

Suzlon to put up 50.4MW wind project in Gujarat

Suzlon Energy has got an order from Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals to set up, operate and maintain 50.4 mega watt of wind energy projects in...

China says Daya Bay nuclear radiation within normal levels

The Chinese government announced that radiation levels from the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station remained normal and poses no threat to human health.

YHS to exclusively distribute Yingli Green modules in Japan

Yingli Green Energy has signed an exclusive module distribution agreement with YHS.

China Datang to use Vestas wind turbines

Vestas has secured an order from China Datang to supply 25 units of V90-2.0MW wind turbines. The wind turbines will be installed near the city of...

High energy growth rates, burgeoning demand has ASEAN attracting global investors

South East Asia's economic growth will continue for the next 5 years and economic growth will continue to prompt infrastructure development, Minoru...