Tasmania has some of the best wind resources in the world and there's a line of companies looking to harness the energy, but as with so much of Tasmania's power potential, it hangs on improving interconnection with the mainland. This month Hydro Tasmania announced more details for its plan to introduce pumped hydro in order to become the "battery of the nation". While the hydro scheme stole the headlines, d ...

Himachal Pradesh's plans to harness hydropower in a big way have received a jolt with investors reluctant to take up projects. The directorate of energy had invited global bids for 28 hydropower projects on a build own operate and transfer (BOOT) basis with June 19 as the last date for submitting and opening bids, but so far only three bid documents have been sold. In the past, three attempts to allot these ...

Electronics conglomerate Samsung has announced its intentions to become completely fossil-fuel free across its US, European and Chinese sites by 2020. The firm has said clean energy sources will be adopted by all of its factories, office buildings and operational facilities in these regions, with the scheme affecting 17 of its 38 manufacturing bases. Samsung executive vice-president Won Kyong Kim said that ...

Mumbai: Fourth Partner Energy, a distributed solar solutions provider, on Friday announced a $70 million investment from The Rise Fund, a global impact investment fund managed by TPG Growth. Founded in 2010 by Vivek Subramanian, Saif Dhorajiwala and Vikas Saluguti, Fourth Partner Energy is a distributed energy management company with in-house capabilities across design, engineering, construction, service, m ...

Upside Energy wins prestigious Ashden Award for its Virtual Energy Store™ Solution reduces reliance on fossil power and facilitates greater deployment of renewables June 15th 2018 - Upside Energy has won the 2018 Impax Ashden Award for Energy Innovation for its ground-breaking approach to balancing the grid. Its Virtual Energy Store™ shifts electricity use in line with demand by aggregating fl ...

JA Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: JASO), a world leading manufacturer of high-performance solar power JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: JASO), a world leading manufacturer of high-performance solar power products, today announced that it was awarded the "2018 Top Performer" by DNV GL, a world renowned independent energy experts and certification institute. This is the third time that JA Solar received the a ...

BP and Reliance Industries have set up a joint venture company that aims to supply natural gas to the domestic market from its main production blocks and pursue LNG imports in an effort to boost the share of gas in India's energy basket, the CEO of the new venture said. Vinod Tahiliani, CEO of India Gas Solutions, a 50:50 JV between BP and Reliance, said energy reforms and infrastructure projects undertaken ...

Van Oord has been designated as preferred contractor for a large 640 MW offshore wind project in Taiwan, enabling the company to take a firm first step towards entering the Asian offshore wind market. The Yunlin offshore wind project is being developed by German project developer wpd, with Van Oord being responsible for the design, manufacturing and installation of the wind farm’s eighty foundations. Prepar ...

An announcement made by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) highlighted that the next phase of the Solar Energy Transformation Program (SETuP) is set to begin and is expected to be able to provide solar PV to 17 communities by November of this year. The next phase of the A$59 million Solar Energy Transformation Program (SETuP) project is set to begin construction thereby giving remote communities ...

Three years into the implementation period of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is Asia Pacific on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? According to ESCAP’s recent Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report, the answer is yes for only one Goal, unlikely for many Goals, and probably not for a few Goals where the region is moving in the wrong direction, most notably on inequality. ...