The Federation of Thai Industries has criticised the government's changes to subsidies on renewable energies.
Sombat Teekasap, chairman of the Federation of Thai Industries renewable energy club said the number of private renewable energy producers would decline as a result of the new feed-in tariff.
Over the next five years, India will become an anchor of global solar demand, installing more than 9 GW between 2011 and 2016, according to GTM Research.
The US Commerce Department is giving itself an extra month to investigate charges of unfair Chinese government subsidies in a case brought by the US unit of German solar energy company SolarWorld, a department official told Reuters on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
US-based ThermoEnergy is planning to break into the Chinese market with its waste-water recovery and power generation technologies. The company says its primary focus is the technology that recovers high value and often toxic chemicals and metals from waste-water produced during the manufacture of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels.
India may join the US and launch its own anti-dumping probe into imports of Chinese solar products within a month, according to Reuters and other news sources yesterday.
India’s Rajasthan state is accepting bids from developers to set up 200 MW of solar power projects in an area that has the country’s second-highest solar radiant exposure, according to Bloomberg.
Gujurat is continuing to move ahead with solar in the solar field with Indarya Green Power announcing plans to develop an integrated renewable energy park located on 2,000 acres near Abdasa Taluka in Kutch district.
A modest new solar panel manufacturing facility is looking to double capacity in India. Elecssol, the Indian trading name for Tapan Solar Energy based in Rajasthan, is doubling capacity of crystalline PV modules to 40-MW by the end of 2012.
Heavily indebted Chinese PV manufacturer, LDK Solar, hopes to raise approximately USD472.7 million from Chinese institutional investors to replace short-term debts through a notes issue staged over the next three quarters.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Monday it will partially fund a project with India’s Reliance Power to build what it said would be India’s largest solar photovoltaic power plant, according to Reuters.
Chinese solar company Suntech won a Gigaton Award at Durban, South Africa on Sunday for outstanding business leadership in carbon emissions reduction, according to a report in Xinhua.
The six-member US International Trade Commission (ITC) has determined unanimously that there is a reasonable indication that "US industry is materially injured by reason of imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules from China that are allegedly subsidized and sold in the United States at less than fair value.”
The ruling was made in response to the complaint filed in October by the Colalition of American Solar Manufacturiung (CASM) led by SolarWorld, that dumping by Chinese manufacturers was causing causing material damage to US PV producers.
The output of China's solar thermal utilization industry for the whole of 2011 is expected to be 17.6 percent higher than for 2010, reaching 57.6 million square meters, an industry expert said earlier this week.
China's major solar companies on Tuesday said they opposed an investigation by the US into Chinese-made solar panels, but will try to avoid a trade war, according to a report in the Global Times.
No-one has been blinded by the fizzling performance of China's solar companies. One after another they have announced falling revenues as they scramble to balance output capacity with demand and slash their costs.Trina Solar, Jinko Solar, LDK Solar, Yingli Solar and Hanwha SolarOne have all cut shipment forecasts for the year with everyone pointing to the falling demand in Europe as feed-in-tariffs have been reduced, although a massive ramping up of production in China has contributed to the problems.
A Belgian-Vietnam renewable energy project is being delayed due to land acquisition problems. The Phuoc Nam-Enfinity program is increasing the capacity of the wind turbines its will install from 1.5-MW to 2.3-MW because, not only has the local government only released a third of the agreed land for the project, but deployment a solar farm at the same time as wind has been forbidden.
Malaysia is set to be the next home for the Panasonic Corporation's newest solar manufacturing base. Panasonic Energy Malaysia Sdn Bhd will be established next month according to the company and a new factory producing wafers to cells and modules will start operations in December 2012.
Schweizer Electronic has announced its first step in diversifying its business and breaking into Asia. It has started building a cell and module manufacturing plant in Nantong, China.
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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