Power producer China Longyuan Power Group Corp Ltd (HKG:0916) has agreed to install 50 MW of wind capacity at a mountainous region in Hubei province, its parent said Thursday. State-owned power generation firm China Guodian Corp announced in a statement on its website that its unit has signed a project development and investment agreement with the local government of Dawu county earlier this month. The next ...

Last week’s inaugural Smart Cities India 2015 Expo drew elected officials, business leaders and foreign dignitaries to three days of discussion and demonstrations of urban applications for information and communications technology (ICT). Aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 100 Smart Cities project, the conference and tradeshow invited attendees to share expertise on sustainable infrastructure, servi ...

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Marubeni have secured a contract to deliver two M501J gas turbines and a steam turbine to power the 950MW Pyeongtaek gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) power plant in South Korea. Under the contract, the partners will deliver the turbines to a consortium-led by POSCO Engineering & Construction (Posco E&C) and Seohee Construction, which manage engineering, procureme ...

EVN earlier this year announced that it planned to buy 1.8 billion kwh of electricity from China, though the domestic output is believed to be more than enough to satisfy demand. 2015 will be the last year Vietnam buys electricity from China under a 10-year contract signed between EVN and the Chinese exporter. Vietnam began importing electricity from China 10 years ago when it lacked electricity for industr ...

Trans-Asia Renewable Energy Corp. (Tarec) of the Phinma Group has secured the green light from the National Grid Corp. of the Philippine (NGCP) to connect its 54-megawatt wind farm to the main grid. Tarec is the first wind farm proponent to obtain such certification from the grid operator. Renewable energy companies, which are required to secure approval from the NGCP, must undergo various field testing to ...

Japan's nuclear regulator signed off on the basic safety of a reactor at a third nuclear plant on Wednesday, as the country inches toward rebooting its atomic industry more than four years after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The decision will be a boost for operator Shikoku Electric Power Co, which relied on its sole Ikata nuclear power station in southwestern Japan for about 40 percent of its electricity ou ...

Solar panel makers globally are preparing for their best year since 2011 when US-backed Solyndra Llc went bust, as China and Japan take advantage of falling prices to shift more of their energy production to clean power. Panel production is forecast to grow by almost a third this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s a significant reversal for an industry that’s been crippled by its own exce ...

The project, developed by ReNew Power, is located in Madhya Pradesh. According to Suzlon it will come online by March 2016. In a statement, Suzlon chairman Tulsi Tanti said: "The Indian renewable market will witness a quantum leap in the next few years. Suzlon is best positioned to capitalise on this opportunity with our 18 years of sustained market leadership and technology edge." According to Windpower In ...

German development bank KFW could lend India $1.1 billion for rooftop solar projects, on top of another loan it has extended to help the Asian country fund its ambitious green energy plans, India's top renewable energy bureaucrat told Reuters. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to quintuple India's renewable energy capacity to 175 gigawatts by 2022, making clean energy part of his fight against climate chan ...

ARLINGTON, Va. The AES Corporation (NYSE:AES) announced that it has achieved commercial operation of its 1,240 MW coal-fired Mong Duong 2 power plant in Vietnam six months ahead of schedule. “Executing on our 7 GW construction program is the main driver of our cash and earnings growth through 2018. Beyond Mong Duong 2, we see a number of potential opportunities for AES in Vietnam, to help meet their rapidly ...