Staff Reporter

India's CG has become the first of three preferred vendors to supply transformers to New Zealand.

Japanese firms will help India achieve an eightfold expansion in sun-powered capacity.

Around 86,000 premises in China have so far been connected using smart grid.

Part of capex to fund expansion in Malaysia.

This will be double the existing capacity.

The Philippines’ top electricity distributor says new sources of power are needed.

Total installations in 2012 were over one-third of all new capacity worldwide.

A New Zealand funded solar power plant in Tonga has already been commissioned.

Tata Power is seeking investors to help its renewables unit more than double capacity in five years.

An Australian energy company is set to start drilling as part of a new geothermal project in Vanuatu.

Local firm AsiaPac Green Renewable Energy Corporation (AGREC) will be investing P1.6 billion for the

China will start exploring the global market to export it CAP1400 this year.

Many power generation facilities have been constructed or are under development in Asia. Thus, many plant personnel will encounter issues related to water/steam chemistry.

Before 2008, encapsulant suppliers from Germany, the U.S., and Japan, such as STR Solar, Mitsui Chemicals, Bridgestone, and Solutia (Etimex), were the dominant companies producing EVA film – taking 60% of the global market share. However, Chinese encapsulant suppliers have steadily increased their market share with players like Hangzhou First PV Material, exceeding Bridgestone and Solutia, to become one of the top three suppliers in 2008.

The October 2012 All India Seminar On Clean Energy & Energy Conservation, Nagpur, seemed more developed and urgent than in 2008. Exemplified in that conference and after the 2012 blackouts, the seminar focused on the fact that conservation, only, will not offset energy requirements. Whole systems replacement, or augmentation, is required and coincides with integrating clean energy sources. Actionable methods and wares for increasing renewable energy efficiency were directly addressed. Intriguing descriptions of solar power, wind energy, and control topologies were prominent. Discussions rounded out on using intelligent grids to allocate loads of existing or new utilities.

Private companies were allowed by the South Korean government to build eight coal-fired power plants.