The mainland city of Heshan has announced the sudden termination of a controversial plan to build a nuclear fuel processing plant. After public discontent extended from the internet to the street, around 1,000 residents united in protest against the project on the grounds of safety and environmental concerns. Early last Saturday morning, one night after the first public protest against the project, the loca ...

A decision on AGL’s massive Silverton wind farm project has been put off for another year. Political uncertainties are behind the move to delay a decision on the project until 2014, with the election potentially heralding significant policy changes. If Labor were to win then current policies will largely remain intact, but if the Coalition claims power, as most expect, a scale-back of the Renewable Energy T ...

The state-run power supplier Korea Midland Power Corporation will build a new thermal power generation plant in northern Seoul, which is to become the world’s first-ever urban underground power facility, officials said. On Friday, KOMIPO and Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction signed a contract for the latter to supply key parts for two new complex fuel generators to be built in the subterranean spac ...

State-owned Taiwan Power Co’s (Taipower) Renewable Energy Section on Saturday promised to repair a wind turbine at the Kuanyuan wind farm in Taoyuan County’s Guanyin Township, after complaints that a blade that broke off last year has been left on a nearby beach. The Kuanyuan wind farm, constructed in 2004, is the nation’s oldest wind power plant and is equipped with 23 64m tall turbines, which have three 3 ...

The Department of Energy is pushing for the development of an electricity reserve market in the Philippines, which the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) can tap to avoid power shortages such as the May 8 and July 3 Luzon-wide blackouts. NGCP operates the country’s power transmission highway. Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla said a frequency imbalance in the country’s power grids – Luzon, ...

TNB will implement the Fuel Cost Pass-Through (FCPT) mechanism next year as a process to determine electricity tariff more efficiently for the consumers. Deputy Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid said the TNB mechanism was among the components in the Incentive-Based Regulation (IBR) under the electricity tariff rate determination programme. "The Energy Commission is in ...

NTPC, India’s largest electricity generator, has begun construction of a third solar power plant to help mitigate the risk of fuel shortages faced by its coal-fired projects. The utility awarded the contract to build the 5MW plant at Jhajru village in the northern state of Haryana to Eversun Energy Pvt., NTPC said in an e-mailed statement. Enmas GP Power System Projects Ltd. will connect the plant to the gr ...

Hub Power Company (Hubco) aims to start switching its 1,200 MW power plant to coal from oil as soon as the government revises policy guidelines and renegotiates the power purchase agreement to make the shift feasible, company’s CEO Khalid Mansoor says. He expressed the intention after the government cleared dues of independent power producers (IPPs) against an understanding that at least a few of them promi ...

Korea's Doosan and China’s Dong Fang have emerged as front-runners for Reliance Power's Rs 10,000-crore contract for supply of equipment to the Tilaiya ultra mega power project in Jharkhand, say industry sources. The private developer is expected to finalize the contract by the end of this month. Desperately looking for fresh orders from the Indian market, about a dozen global vendors, including Doosan and ...

Malaysia’s rising appetite for coal for its power plants may put it in competition with rivals in the future as global demand for the black fuel is expected to surge. 

Analysts looking at Malaysia’s long-term strategy to burn coal for a significant part of its power generation say as demand for coal increases in the future, Malaysia’s traditional suppliers may not be able to supply the fuel it needs at a g ...