Market is massive, with Beijing set to spend an estimated $609b a year over next 5 years CHANGZHOU • Global sewage and water treatment firms are eyeing opportunities in an unsavoury place: a growing pile of waste in China, the world's most populous nation. The country has been for years battling contamination from fertiliser run-offs, heavy metals and untreated sewage. A survey in 2015 showed that nearly tw ...

By utilising exhaust heat from power generation, the new system delivers 52% generation efficiency and total energy efficiency of 90% with exhaust heat recovery, according to Kyocera. Japan's Kyocera has rolled out a 3kW solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) cogeneration system targeting institutional applications. To produce electricity and heat, a fuel cell system extracts hydrogen from utility-supplied gas or liq ...

Siemens partners with Singapore to establish its first fully-integrated Digitalization Hub Munich Powered by MindSphere – Siemens' cloud-based open IoT operating system, the Hub will drive digitalization in the country Team of up to 300 digitalization experts by 2022 Development of new digital applications for companies in Southeast Asia, three cooperation agreements signed today To address the substantial ...

Siemens partners with China on digitalization Berlin, 2017-Jul-05 Siemens cooperates with Chinese government in digital manufacturing, innovation and technology applications Memorandum of Understanding signed in presence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping Strategic partnership with Chinese enterprises in industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and intelligent manufacturing Sieme ...

When China halted plans for more than 100 new coal-fired power plants this year, even as US President Donald Trump vowed to "bring back coal" in America, the contrast seemed to confirm Beijing's new role as a leader in the fight against climate change. However, new data on the world's biggest developers of coal-fired power plants paints a very different picture: China's energy companies will make up nearly ...

The Three Gorges and Gezhouba, two of China’s top hydropower plants, have closed capacity by as much as two-thirds, state media said, as torrential rains across the south triggered drastic steps to ease pressure on the Yangtze River. The Chinese government has meanwhile disbursed 700 million yuan (S$142.3 million) in emergency aid to four provinces in the south and east to help them deal with widespread flo ...

Sunlabob Renewable Energy, a Lao venture-backed company that provides sustainable renewable solutions to underserved regions for electricity, has completed and commissioned a 92.6 kWp solar installation on the rooftop of Anita Asia, an Austrian garment factory.   A total of 356 solar panels mounted on the factory’s rooftop are capable of producing over 122,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of clean electricity on an ...

Malaysia is a world leader when it comes to solar power, said Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Wilfred Madius Tangau. "Malaysia is the second largest manufacturer of photovoltaic modules and the third largest producer of photovoltaic cells in the world," said Tangau in his speech at the Astana Expo 2017 here on Monday. He added that four of the world's top five photovoltaic cell manufa ...

Much has been written about the building of hydropower dams in the upper reaches of the Mekong River, especially Lancang River in China, and their role in causing droughts in the Mekong delta region in Vietnam. Many environmental and social activists claim Chinese dams have reduced the water flowing in the delta, seriously harming rice cultivation and allowing saltwater to flow into the delta. Let us object ...

The Taiwan Strait will likely generate an annual 3 million kilowatts to 5 million kilowatts from wind power, Premier Lin Chuan said Monday, implying an upgrade to the previously targeted 3 million kilowatts in 2025, thanks to investment applications from foreign companies. President Tsai Ing-wen's administration aims to shrink nuclear's share of the electricity supply from 14% in 2015 to zero by 2025. To su ...