The European Union is set to publish a Commission Regulation that will impose the mandatory registration of all imports of solar modules, cells and wafers that originated in China. The registration of systems is a normal function of the EU Commission’s investigation and is necessary to determine whether or not any anti-dumping and/or countervailing duties will be applied retroactively. According to the Alli ...

Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. and Ube Industries Ltd. will build and operate a 21 megawatt solar power station in western Japan. The companies set up a venture to start construction of the plant in Yamaguchi prefecture in April, Showa Shell, the Japanese refining unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. (RDSA), said in a statement today. The station will start operation in July next year. Solar Frontier K.K., a wholly owne ...

Russia is thinking of building a giant solar power station capable of collecting energy and beaming it to Earth. This idea was put forward by Central Scientific Research institute for Engineering, a subsidiary of the Russian Space Agency, Roskosmos. The concept of such a power station was formulated by Peter Glasier in the US in 1968. It is aimed at beaming energy to Earth using giant solar panels. To gener ...

Cypark Resources Berhad, the largest solar developer in Malaysia, has called on the Malaysian government to remove the cap on maximum installed capacity for renewable energy projects in order to give investors better opportunities. The Malaysian government introduced an FiT system for renewable energy in December 2011. The FiT rate for solar photovoltaic (PV) is the highest at 0.85 to 1.78 ringgit per kilow ...

The Indian government has brought back a key wind industry incentive in today's budget, following intense lobbying from the industry. The industry has been lobbying for the reintroduction of the generation-based incentive (GBI) since it was withdrawn last April. It paid wind generators INR 0.5/KWh (EUR 0.007/kWh). The government has not yet announced the new rate. Indian finance minister P Chidambaram also ...

Continuum Wind Energy, backed by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners LP, received a 9-billion rupee ($164 million) loan from banks for a wind farm in India. The lenders led by the State Bank of India (SBIN) issued letters of credit to the local unit of Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS), Continuum’s Chief Executive Officer Arvind Bansal said in an interview. The wind farm operator has placed orders for 40 win ...

Independent power producers (IPPs) believe problems with acquiring a suitable new site and the wayleave for the transmission line for the proposed 2,000MW (2x1,000MW) coal-fired power plant tender will limit participation to companies with deep pockets and Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB). “It's going be quite difficult to find the right location for the project site and even more challenging to get landowners to ...

Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has appealed to the Centre to set up an Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) at Niddodi village in Dakshina Kannada (D-K) district. In a letter addressed to Union Minister for Power Jyothiraditya Scindia, Shettar said on Saturday that the Central Electricity Authority has informed the Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI), Ranchi that all the four sites proposed by it ...

The national electricity industry regulator has strongly criticised plans by a NSW government-owned electricity company to upgrade the network in the state's north east, even following a decision to defer the upgrade. The NSW high voltage transmission network owner Transgrid had planned to upgrade a link between Stroud and Lansdowne, near Taree on the mid-north coast, by building a 330,000 volt link to meet ...

Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal Tuesday granted a boon to the wind turbine sector by announcing a proposal for 75 MW of windmill units. Presenting the railway budget for 2013-14, Bansal announced "setting up of 75 MW windmill plants and energizing 1,000 level crossings with solar power". He said that as a measure to protect the environment and to promote sustainable development, a railway energy managem ...