Clenergy recently announced the establishment of Clenergy (Xiamen) Energy Engineering Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clenergy. The new company will focus on and specialize in delivering solar EPC services and will build on Clenergy's expansion in China. Clenergy's senior management described this as strategically important and part of the company's regional business plan. To lead this new subsidiary, ...

Since the Fukushima disaster of 2011, Japan has been working to move away from nuclear energy and fossil-fuels in general. While the impact of the disaster is still being felt to this day, Japan has made major strides in embracing new forms of energy, such as solar power and hydrogen fuel. Bloom Energy, a leading developer of hydrogen fuel cells, believes that Japan is becoming an ideal market for fuel cell ...

Reliance Power has pulled out from the proposed LNG terminal with Shell on the east coast, but the global major has a bullish long-term view on India and has decided to complete the project on its own in the market that has also lured BP. The Indian market is crying out for gas supply and infrastructure with dozens of power projects waiting in the wings. Roger Bounds, global head of Shell's LNG business, sa ...

Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy Tom Koutsantonis today welcomed a decision by the Australian energy regulator to support an upgrade of a key part of the national energy market. Mr Koutsantonis said the decision supports a proposal by ElectraNet and the Australian Energy Market Operator to upgrade the South Australia to Victoria electricity transmission interconnector. "Known as the Heywood interco ...

The country's largest small power producer (SPP), Amata B Grimm Power Group, is conducting a feasibility study on investing in a coal-fired plant in Malaysia, company president Preeyanart Soontornwata said. She said the group became interested in supplying electricity to the South of Thailand after the blackout in 14 provinces early this year. Demand in that part of the Kingdom was growing and supply was no ...

South Korea hopes to lay the groundwork for its bids to win a string of massive infrastructure projects in Vietnam, including the construction of nuclear power plants, during President Park Geun-hye's state visit to the Southeast Asian nation, officials said Sunday. Park arrived in Hanoi on Saturday for a five-day visit billed by officials as the starting point for her "sales diplomacy" drive. The drive is ...

Government’s plan to continue allowing private companies to generate and supply power to the public can rise threefold to fourfold in the current power bill without issuing any particular law as to the electricity, said local sources. If the private companies supply power to the public, the charge of one unit might be K 120 to K 150. At present, the Ministry of Electric Power is signing agreements with the ...

PowerGrid Corporation is seeking a "viable return" for a proposed undersea transmission cable linking India and Sri Lanka, which has been delayed. The project, with a capacity to transmit 500 MW of electricity, is to be jointly implemented with the Ceylon Electricity Board at an estimated cost of Rs 2,500-3,000 crore and was scheduled to be completed this year. "We have submitted the draft report on the und ...

The DNV KEMA Clean Technology Centre (CTC) in Singapore has opened an Asian Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Management, the company announced today. “The CoE will enable DNV KEMA to apply its global experience to support the Asia Pacific energy market in building a solid and more sustainable energy future,” says David Walker, CEO for DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability. The C ...

In a first of this kind of arrangement, private power producer Torrent Power will directly buy natural gas from Petronet LNG to feed its station. “The first start is Torrent Power who is now connected to the Dahej terminal for direct supply of gas,’’ said A.K. Balyan, Chief Executive Officer, Petronet. Petronet is an importer of natural gas and currently operates two terminals at Dahej and Kochi. “They (Tor ...