Asia Clean Capital Ltd. ("ACC"), whose renewable energy solutions help multinational and domestic corporations in China reduce operating costs, decrease carbon footprint, and meet sustainability targets, today announced a US$40 million project finance facility from Goldman Sachs, a global investment bank and active investor in renewable energy. The financing facility will allow ACC to accelerate and expand ...

The Atomic Energy Council yesterday gave permission to Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) to reactivate the second reactor at the Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung County after halting its operation for two months due to a faulty screw bolt. The reactor underwent a regular overhaul from Nov. 9 to Dec. 1, but the discovery of a faulty anchor bolt in the reactor lid prevented the reactor from resuming operati ...

Construction of a 15.5km submarine cable connecting the Cham Islands to the national power grid began on Saturday. The VND485 billion (US$22.7 million) project, which is 85 per cent funded by the State budget, will be built by Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN)'s Central Power Corporation. The project will also include nearly 30km of lines over the island and six transmission stations. Chairman of the central Qu ...

Suzlon Group, one of the world’s leading wind turbine manufacturers, has won an order for building a 197.40 MW wind project in Andhra Pradesh. The financial details of the project were not revealed, but the company said this is not the first contract it has won from the customer. “Suzlon has recently commissioned first wind power project in India of 50.40MW located in Tejuva, Jaisalmer (Rajasthan) for the s ...

Chinese photovoltaics (PV) maker Trina Solar Ltd (NYSE:TSL) said Monday it completed and hooked to the grid three distributed generation (DG) solar arrays with a combined capacity of 27 MW in end-2015. The PV systems were installed on the rooftops of three large factories in Jiangsu province’s city of Suqian. Equipped with 110,000 Trina Solar Honey modules, they are expected to generate some 30 GWh of elect ...

Chinese utility Huadian Power International Corp Ltd (SHA:600027) said Wednesday it has recently hooked to the domestic grid wind and photovoltaic (PV) parks with a combined capacity of 482.9 MW. The company put on stream five wind farms, totalling 279.4 MW, in Shandong province and 149.5 MW in Ningxia Hui autonomous region. Overall, subsidiary Huadian Power International Ningxia New Energy Power Co Ltd ope ...

GE Renewable Energy has agreed to a partnership with Khao Kor Wind Power to supply wind turbines for the Khao Kor wind farm in Petchaboon, Thailand. Designed to supply power to the northern part of the country, the 60-megawatt project will generate enough equivalent energy to power about 36,000 Thai households a year. “The region has huge potential for wind power, and our technology is competitive, reliable ...

Cologne, 06.01.2016 – First helium plasma was generated at the nuclear fusion reactor Wendelstein 7-X of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) has been successful. On 10 December 2015, after more than ten years of construction and preparation, the researchers of the IPP succeeded in taking the world's largest fusion plant of the Stellarator type into pilot operation. The scientists have fed one- ...

A project promoting low carbon tourism and intelligent transportation services in Taipei and an innovative campaign to encourage people not to drive cars one day per week in Seoul were among the smart energy innovations that gained the nod of energy officials from 21 APEC member countries in 2015. Energy smart technologies and approaches in Asia-Pacific were evaluated as part of a best practices competition ...

Earlier this month Administracion Nacional de Electricidad (ANDE) completed the installation of 430 kcmil (218 mm^2) Linnet size ACCC conductor on their BPA Bo. Parque substation to their San Lorenzo Substation in Asuncion, Paraguay. ANDE selected ACCC conductor to improve the efficiency and capacity of an existing 66 kV ACSR line that was over 40 years old. An installation team comprised of over two dozen ...