A statement last month from Hokkaido Electric Power Co, which provides electricity to Japan’s northernmost island, that it won’t be able to accommodate more than 400-MW of utility-scale solar-powered generating capacity appears to be having a cooling effect on the industry.
SB Energy, the renewable power arm of Softbank Corp, is reported by the Kyoto News agency to be re-evaluating the feasibility of three solar projects in the prefecture with a total planned capacity of 180-MW.
India's grid-connected non-hydro renewable energy capacity, mainly solar and wind, has reached 27-GW, while the country’s total grid-connected power generation capacity is about 215-GW, according to a top Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) official.
The rapid expansion of renewable technologies is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak assessment of global progress towards low-carbon energy, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in an annual report to the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM).
“The drive to clean up the world’s energy system has stalled,” IEA executive director Maria van der Hoeven told the CEM, which brings together ministers representing countries responsible for four-fifths of global greenhouse-gas emissions.
The average amount of time wind turbines in China were generating electricity shrank last year according to data released by the country's energy watchdog, underlining the need to boost grid construction to absorb more wind power.
East China's Jiangsu Province has become the latest region to spearhead the country's push for private participation in distributed power generation as part of the government's clean energy blueprint.
The State Grid Corporation of China, the country’s largest energy distributor, has denied earlier reports that it would be split into five independent regional grid companies.
China is planning to carve up its biggest power transmission company, the State Grid Corporation, according to the Shandong-based Jinan Daily, citing sources close to policymakers.
Vestas Wind Systems has called on the Japanese government to improve access to the electricity grid. Speaking at the Wind Expo 2013 in Tokyo, Vestas chief executive officer Ditlev Engel was critical of the obstacles in accessing the distribution network reflecting a recent government recommendation that the country’s 10 utilities be stripped of their regional monopolies, according to Bloomberg.
The Japanese government is looking to triple the nation's wind power generation capacity to 7.5-GW by upgrading transmission grids in Hokkaido and the Tohoku region.
Thailand’s Electricity Generation Authority has signed a USD33 million (1 billion bhat) contract with Chinese companies to build facilities and install high-voltage transmission lines that will carry electricity imported from Laos’ 1,878-MW coal-fired Hongsa-Lignite Power plant, which will begin commercial operation in June 2015.
The West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (WBSEDCL) has signed a deal for more than 1.5 million digital electricity meters from Landis+Gyr.
A new study from Pike Research says that plans by The Chinese government and State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) to upgrade its electricity network means the installed base of smart meters should reach 377 million by 2020.
China, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, is looking to address a roadblock slowing the development of wind power by connecting idled wind farms to the electricity grid.
China's first grid connection of a residential photovoltaic (PV) system has been announced in Qingdao, Shandong province. Local authorities said this is the first project to take advantage of a service that the State Grid Corp of China, which transmits and distributes power in the country, introduced to allow small producers of photovoltaic solar power to connect to the national grid from the start of November, according to the China Daily.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has unsurprisingly concluded that Burma has a wealth of possibilities for power generation but lacks the money to exploit them.
China's giant State Grid Corp has been lobbying hard for approval of a USD250 billion upgrade plan that it says would make it an international trailblazer, but which critics say is too costly and could expose the system to blackouts.
The Word Bank has agreed to loan Vietnam USD449 million to improve “environmentally-friendly” electricity distribution, including the introduction of smart grids, throughout the country.
This report by the World Bank spells out what the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes.
Companies in Asia reveal expectations that regulations that could lead to rising costs for reporting and reducing GHG emissions will also be the main sources of climate-related business opportunities.
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