Shanghai Electric and Siemens have announced the completion of the 50-MW wind power plant at Guangrao in China’s Shandong Provice. It is the first project jointly delivered by the two companies which signed an alliance at the end of 2011, using two subsidiaries - Siemens Wind Power Turbines (Shanghai) and Shanghai Electric Wind Energy Co.
The Philippine government needs to improve the regulatory framework to boost the success of the local renewable energy industry and open the sector to overseas investors.
Power generated by renewable energy in China totaled to 968 billion kilowatt-hours in 2012, an increase of more than 30 percent according to the State Electricity Regulatory Commission.
In his maiden 2013 Policy Address Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung announced his intention to create an interdepartmental steering committee to promote green buildings.
With buildings accounting for 90 per cent of Hong Kong’s electricity use and 60 per cent of its carbon emissions, this is an important step forward. But without an overarching climate policy or target for Hong Kong, any effort taken by this committee will likely be piecemeal.
A new chapter in The Philippines’ on-going saga over the implementation of it Renewable Energy Act, passed in 2008, has opened with the Department of Energy (DOE) announcing the adoption of a “first come, first served” policy in allocating the limited 760-MW installation target for renewable energy (RE) projects.
According to the NPD Solarbuzz Q1’13 Asia Pacific Major PV Markets Quarterly report, PV demand in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region is forecast to grow to by 50 percent year-on-year 13.5-GW in 2013.
China, Japan, India, and Australia will remain dominant for PV demand in the region, accounting for 90 percent of demand in 2013, however, discrete end-market demand environments are now evolving in each of these countries.
President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech had few surprises except in his use of China as way to motivate rivals to stand behind his green policies. Obama put most of the onus on new climate policies on a less-than-enthusiastic Congress, but dropped a strong hint that if they don't do something, he would use his executive muscle to address climate change “for the sake of our children and our future.”
It appears that there may be light at the end of the tunnel in the ongoing dispute between China and the EU over aviation emissions by skirting the latter’s provocative Emissions Trading System (ETS).
Solar photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer Vikram Solar has commissioned a 40-MW solar power plant in Rajasthan, India as part of 300-MW in solar-power generating capacity the company is planning to install over the next five years.
Hong Kong investment company China Gogreen Assets says it will invest 720 million yuan (USD115 million) to develop rooftop solar power projects in the Xuchang city in China’s Henan province, according to Bloomberg.
Beijing city will at the beginning of next month impose new sanctions that ban the sale and registration of sub-standard gasoline cars in a bid to help curb its record-breaking smog problems.
Pressure to speed up the introduction of NGV (natural gas buses) fleets for Bangkok has been put to the Thai government, who say it will by done by year-end. The chairman of the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority’s labor union told ministry of transport officials that older NGV machines were out of order and fleets had been in use for over 17 years.
The Indian government has come under criticism for bowing to commercial pressure to use non-renewable power sources rather than thermal and hydro resources in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Issues of poor corporate governance in China's clean tech companies have returned as Trony Solar told the Hong Kong stock exchange that its audit committee dealing with questionable accounting issues had resigned.
US regulators have approved China National Offshore Oil Corporation's (CNOOC's) USD 15.1-billion bid to buy Nexen Inc, a deal that will be the biggest overseas takeover made by a Chinese company.
The approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States means the last major hurdle was cleared, CNOOC, China's largest offshore oil producer, said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
China will attempt to cut energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission for per unit industrial value added by over five percent, an energy official said at the weekend.
AMSC, a global provider of solutions to the wind and power grid industry, has landed a contract worth over USD30 million to supply wind turbine electrical control systems (ECS) to Inox Wind Limited, part of India's Inox Group of Companies.
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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