Staff Reporter

Indonesian, Singapore investors to build waste-based power plants

Joint venture will construct four waste-based power plants in Indonesia.

Taiwan to become nuclear free

Cabinet approves a draft act promoting energy safety and a nuclear-free Taiwan.

Massive Tibetan hydropower dam to go online in October

The Pondo Water Control Project is Tibet’s equivalent of the Three Gorge Dam.

China to add add 87m KW of installed power capacity

This will bring its total power capacity to 1.23 billion KW by yearend.

National Energy Administration to be restructured

New agency will be responsible for energy regulation.

Panasonic to launch RE products in India by 2014

Japanese electronics giant to market solar panels and fuel cells, among others.

National Energy Administration to be restructured

New agency will be responsible for energy regulation.

China suffers clean energy trade deficit with US

The US has a US$1.63 billion surplus in the clean energy trade over China.

Japan to re-open 6 nuclear reactors this year

Two-thirds of Japan’s 50 reactors to re-start in the next few years.

Philippines’ AboitizPower posts 13% net income increase

Increase in electricity sales boosts income to US$599 million in 2012.

When solar capacity and demand meet in 2015

Oversupply increased in 2012 as global production capacity rose 10 GW while demand rose less than 3 GW as Chinese manufacturers, such as Yingli, which added 600 MW, and Trina, which added 500 MW of capacity in 2012, continue to increase capacity.

Exploring the perfect market for energy and energy transition in Asia (Part 1)

Discussions and dialogues between peers and professionals, at times, centre around the question:

Vietnamese nuclear plant workers to train in Russia

Some 2,000 Vietnamese will go to Russia beginning this year.

Meralco to buy Singaporean power company

Partners with Hong Kong's First Pacific Company Ltd in takeover.