Staff Reporter

Taiwan committed to becoming nuclear-free

Renewable energy, although more expensive, will replace nuclear power in Taiwan. Minister of Economic Affairs Shih Yen-hsiang said Taiwan's goal is to become a nuclear-free country and it will diversify its energy resources to achieve this aim.

Mergers and Acquisitions not a viable option to grow IPPs in Asia

IPPs are expected to meet more than 30% of the 250-3500GW new capacity demand in the region in the next 10 years.

Cheap hydropower in the Philippines is now dead: government

RP government looks into coal power plant to address power shortage in Mindanao.

U.S. Ex-Im Bank funds India’s largest solar power project

India’s Reliance Power, Ltd has received U.S. government funding for its major solar power project.

Japan pours funds into hydrogen fuel research

Post-Fukushima Japan continues to favor hydrogen fuel as a key alternative to nuclear energy.

Chinese wind power company chooses GE

China Longyuan Power Group, Ltd, China's largest wind power company, has turned to GE for the wind turbines for a project in Canada.

Mistui invests in UK renewables

The Mitsui Group, one of Japanese largest conglomerates or “keiretsu,” expands into the United Kingdom’s renewable energy industry.

Mongolia approves first ever IPP in 20 years

Prophecy Coal speaks proudly of their mine-mouth power plant project, a first of its kind for Mongolia and one designed to augment, and ultimately replace, that country’s aging power supply infrastructure.

Philippine power firms keen to invest in Sarulla Geothermal Power Plants

More foreign firms are taking interest as the project, tagged as the largest single-contract geothermal power project to date comes operational by 2015, said a member of the consortium.

Chinese rivals vie to take over world’s largest wind power firm

The ill wind blowing the way of Vestas Wind Systems A/S has made the company vulnerable to a takeover bid by its rivals.

Philippines to bid US$2.1 billion natural gas project

One of the largest renewable energy projects in the Philippines has caught the attention of at least 10 foreign investors.

Fedders Lloyd to expand wind turbine manufacturing facility at Bharuch

Fedders Lloyd plans to expand its manufacturing facility for wind turbine towers, heavy precision fabrication and machining facility in Bharuch district, Gujarat.

Bosch explores India's huge solar project potential

Bosch is eyeing 10 mega watt worth projects over the next few years.

NTPC's sixth unit bunker collapses in Bihar

Power generation was halted at the 500MW unit 6 of the NTPC thermal power plant at Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district after its bunker collapsed.

Australia's 600MW brown coal project gets 'frozen'

A $1.23 billion brown coal-gas hybrid power plant in Australia has been frozen after a tribunal imposed difficult conditions.

Solar energy use spreads to smaller Indonesian islands

Indonesia’s outer islands prepare to receive renewable energy.