Installed wind power capacity in Inner Mongolia, China's leading builder of wind farms by region, will top 13 gigawatts (GW) by the end of this year, an executive with local power grid firm said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
The capacity would be more than half of China's total at the beginning of this year, according to data from the National Energy Administration.
Global clean energy finance and investment grew significantly in 2010 to USD243 billion, a 30 percent increase from the previous year with China, Germany, Italy and India leading the charge in nations that most successfully attracted private investments, according to new research released by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Reports that Japan's government is considering nationalizing the operator of the crippled power plant at the centre of the worst nuclear accident in the country's history are untrue according to a senior government official.
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China's industrial firms will be forced to cut their carbon and energy intensity levels by as much as 18 percent over the next five years, according to mandatory targets announced on Monday.
North America's switch to energy efficiency has driven its position in the global renewable mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market in 2010, and could act as a driver for the region to become the dominant renewables market within three years, according to new analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
The US Air Force has successfully used a biofuel blend to help power a Boeing F-22 Raptor, its most advanced combat aircraft to Mach 1.5, paving the way for the military to fully embrace alternative fuels over the next few years.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) s extending a USD30 million loan to assist Indonesia embark on major energy efficiency improvements in export industries. The loan is part of a USD200 million ADB is providing to Indonesia Eximbank, the country's official export credit agency.
The head of research at China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC), the country's largest nuclear plant operator, says the crisis at Japan's nuclear crisis should not derail China's plan to develop the nuclear power industry, on Friday.
As Japan struggles with the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake - including a death-toll likely to top 25,000, more than 2,750 injured, 400,000 homeless and an estimated economic cost in excess of USD100 billion - confidence in civilian nuclear power across Asia has been badly shaken.
Taiwan's waste disposal facilities are poised to take on more environmentally friendly and energy-saving roles, according to the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA).
China has stepped up its monitoring and disclosure of information about radioactive fallout from Japan's stricken Fukushima Dia-ichi nuclear power plant to ease public concern.
According to a new report from the Climate Group India could rival the US, EU and China in clean tech if it can capitalize on a market for sustainable products that could be worth up to USD135 billion by 2020.
The Hong Kong government says it will re-assess the Chinese Special Administrative Region's (SAR's) future energy strategy in light of the nuclear crisis in Japan, Environment Secretary Edward Yau Tang-wah said yesterday.
India's Tata Power has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Australian solar power company Sunengy Pty Limited to build a low-cost, high-efficiency solar energy plant that floats on water.
Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd, the NYSE-listed global producer of solar panels, has announced that it will develop a 10MW solar installation that will reportedly generate decades of clean electricity for residents of the Tibetan Plateau.
China Huadian Corp, the nation's fourth-biggest power producer, will sell shares in its renewable energy unit in Hong Kong to raise as much as USD1.5 billion, according to Bloomberg citing "two sources with knowledge of the matter."
The Ayala Group has made another significant investment in the Philippines power generation business by buying half the participating stake in a 33-megawatt wind farm in the province of Ilocos Norte.
Japan's wind turbines survived last week's earthquake and as a result utilities have now asked wind farm operators to boost power output to make up for energy shortages in the country, the leader of the Japanese Wind Energy Association has revealed.
China's State Council has indefinitely suspended safety approvals for new nuclear plants in the strongest sign yet that the quake-ravaged northeast Japan, and the deepening crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, may affect China's ambitious nuclear expansion plan.
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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