The Kedah government plans to turn the state into a solar energy consumer as it is producing solar panels on a large scale, Menteri Besar Datuk Mukhriz Tun Dr Mahathir said Thursday. For a start, the state government would install solar panels on state government buildings in a move to reduce consumption of electricity generated in the conventional way, he said. Mukhriz said Kedah could be regarded as one o ...

Taiwan outpaces other Asian countries in electricity consumption per kilowatt-hour (kWh) per capita, while its electricity prices for households and industrial consumers are much lower than its rivals’, Minister of Economic Affairs Chang Chia-juch said yesterday. Taiwan Power Co data show the nation’s annual electricity consumption per capita reached 10,237kWh in 2010, compared with 9,851kWh in second-ranke ...

Stop worrying about the falling value of rupee and high gold prices, here's something to worry about closer home. Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has allowed MSEDCL to purchase power from Mahagenco at very high prices, in spite of protests by consumer representatives. This cost will soon be passed on to consumers in the new tariff. A recent order of MERC has also brought to light the fa ...

China Datang Corp. Renewable Power Co., a wind project developer, said first-half profit more than doubled as increased grid capacity allowed output to expand. Net income rose to 231 million yuan ($38 million) from 103 million yuan a year earlier, the Beijing-based company said today in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange. Sales gained 35 percent to 2.76 billion yuan. The company is “actively expanding ...

One of the poorest and most remote regions in China is to receive a $200m loan from the Asian Development Bank to improve water management. The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is predominantly a desert territory, characterised by strong winds, low rainfall and a high evaporation rate. Two cities in the region, Kelamayi and Kuitun, receive as little as 100mm of rain each year, and experience sub-zero temper ...

Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. (YGE), the world’s largest solar manufacturer, shipped a record number of panels in the second quarter as demand from Asian and U.S. customers increased. Shipments rose 24 percent from the previous quarter, boosting revenue and helping to cut Yingli’s net loss by almost half to $52.3 million, the Baoding, China-based company said today in a statement. Higher selling prices al ...

The Kunlone hydropower project, a joint venture between the Myanmar government and Chinese Hanergy Holding Company will begin this year. The project will generate 1400 megawatt of electricity. U Sai Htun Yin, the Minister of Electric Power from Shan state said, “We are negotiating with the Chinese company for signing a Joint Venture Agreement. The project will not only support Shan state but also the whole ...

The daily power outages in North Cotabato have gone from bad to worse as the number of daily power interruptions stretched from six to eight hours due to the ongoing rehabilitation of two major power generators in Lanao del Norte and Misamis Oriental. Godofredo Homez, general manager of the Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Cotelco), said the cooperative is now implementing rotating brownouts per feeder in the ...

Radiation near a tank holding highly contaminated water at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has spiked 18-fold, the plant’s operator said Sept.1, highlighting the struggle to bring the crisis under control after more than two years. Radiation of 1,800 millisieverts per hour - enough to kill an exposed person in four hours - was detected near the bottom of one storage tank on Aug. 31, Tokyo Electric ...

China is expanding performance-based incentives for distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) projects, according to reports in the Chinese newspaper Xinhua. On Friday, China’s National Development and Reform Commission  said it would implement a new price structure that awards customers about $0.16 per kilowatt-hour (KWh) for electricity produced by distributed solar PV projects. The new price structure will mor ...