Asia Pacific — home to more than half the world's population and some of its fastest-growing economies — is a key battleground in the fight against pollution, one of the biggest threats to the planet and its people, the UN environment chief said. An estimated 12 million people die prematurely each year because of unhealthy environments, 7 million of them due to air pollution alone, making pollution "the big ...

Renewable energy groups are urging Europe to follow China’s example as Beijing more than doubles its solar power target for 2020 three years early. Figures released by the Asia Europe Clean Energy (Solar) Advisory (AECEA) solar industry firm indicate that China has far surpassed it goal of 105 gigawatts by the year 2020 due to its expanded solar capacity. This makes China a world leader in solar power. Air ...

SNC-Lavalin has been awarded an engineering and design contract by private energy company Gunung Hydropower for the 10 MW Pulau Temelong hydroelectric project in Malaysia. SNC-Lavalin’s scope of work will include full design and engineering covering tender engineering and drawings, detailed implementation schedule, capital costs estimates, cash flow and the tender design report. In addition, SNC-Lavalin wil ...

Villagers who have refused to leave their homes to make way for one of Southeast Asia’s largest hydropower dams have denied accusation from the government that they are seeking to start a secessionist movement in the country. The Lower Sesan II hydropower project, a joint venture between China’s Hydrolancang International, Cambodia’s Royal Group, and a state-owned Vietnamese firm, began pre-operation testin ...

An ambitious energy export plan could see solar power generated in Western Australia's north-west piped to Indonesia. A report commissioned by the Pilbara Development Commission and authored by Australian and Indonesian researchers looked into the potential to export electricity generated by photovoltaic (PV) solar in the Pilbara to Asia. The study found it was feasible to deliver energy generated from a Pi ...

French utility Engie are developing the Sainshand wind farm in the Gobi Desert, with the facility set to generate enough energy to serve the needs of 130,000 Mongolians. The 55 MW wind power plant is the French company’s debut renewable project in Mongolia. The Sainshand wind farm will have a total installed capacity of 55 MW. Construction is scheduled to begin this summer and will be overseen by Tractebel, ...

In Mongolia, herders living outside the capital Ulaanbaatar, near the Tuul River, fear deteriorating water quality is making their livestock sick. In Indonesia, shrimp farmers in Serang who rely on the Ciujung River have seen their catches fall, and some have developed skin problems. In south-central Thailand, villagers near the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate, home to petrochemical plants, oil refineries and ...

Southeast Asian countries are adopting cutting-edge information technology to improve the efficiency and environmental impact of fossil fuel power plants that the region relies on to meet surging energy demand. Japanese trader Marubeni and Global Power Synergy Co., an affiliate of Thailand's national oil company PTT, have reached a basic agreement to install sensors at existing power plants that will allow ...

Experts plan to continue testing of underwater plants. In Japan, the world’s first tested the installation for the production of electricity through the undercurrents of the ocean. It is reported by the broadcaster NHK. Power plant consists of three located at a depth of 20-50 meters of a cylinder with a length of 20 meters each. Inside two of them placed the generators with blades with a diameter of 11 met ...

China said on Tuesday it will set new power transmission prices by the end of October, in its latest effort to liberalise the power market and promote trading of electricity across different regions. Beijing has made a series of moves to open up the country's monopolised power market since late 2015, including launching a power trading scheme for eight provinces and reducing power distribution prices. Power ...