Staff Reporter
China pushed global renewable installed capacity beyond 900GW in 2015
China pushed global renewable installed capacity beyond 900GW in 2015
China became the largest consumer of solar PV modules.
India gets $1b loan from ADB for renewable energy transmission, grid expansion
Regional connectivity will be boosted to 16GW.
Power-hungry China stubbornly holds on to coal-fired power
China is awfully torn between coal power reduction and further growing its exports.
China failed to boost nuke installation capacity to 40GW in 2015
It is behind by 15GW from its target.
India's power distributors suffer chronic lack of investment
Distribution segment is utterly inefficient and swarming with T&D losses.
CLP, HK Electric to slash net power tariff by 1% in 2016
This is on back of lower Fuel Clause Charge.
Thai Solar Energy to boost solar capacity in Japan by 60% to 42MW
More deals are already in the pipeline.
International, Indonesian stakeholders to attend Nuclear Power Asia 2016
Find out what's drawing them to the event.
Japan, Korea stubbornly cling to coal despite global climate deal
At least 60 new plants are being planned over the next decade.
Moody's predicts stable outlook for Asian power sector
Thanks to steady demand and low input costs.
Asia's hydro power capacity ticked up by a mere 3.8% this year
No thanks to the awful dry spell in August.
Humans, machines, and outcomes
On occasion of a Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident book-release1 event organised by a well-educated, secluded community in the Santa Ynez Valley (California), I came upon the above three words during a book-signing. Throughout human history of tool-making and energy-use (fire), then catapulted by currency-based commerce, the human use of "tools and energy" ever more sophisticated have determined the outcome of the human condition. Allow me to elaborate further on this theme.
Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL, National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia in MOU
The deal eyes building a development framework between the 2 countries.
Rosatom, National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia (BATAN) Hosts Workshop on Modern Nuclear Technologies
Find out what the workshop focused on.
Malaysia's nuke dream is "overly ambitious": analyst
Development costs are too much--and it's just one problem.
Nuclear energy still needed to achieve ambitious global climate agreement
Will Asian governments be ready to join the nuke bandwagon?
Hong Kong electricity tariff lowered by 1% for 2016
This is on back of a lower Fuel Clause Charge.
Commentary
Malaysia’s energy workforce is upskilling, but to what standard?
Asia’s grid decade: Why transmission will decide the pace of renewable growth