Mongolia opened its first wind farm on June 20th, a landmark $122 million project that aims to shift the country's reliance on coal and tackle the pollution choking its capital Ulan Bator. A total of 31 turbines have been erected at the facility, which are expected to power five per cent of electricity needs in a country undergoing rapid transformation on the back of a spectacular boom in mining -- particul ...

Shanghai Donghai Wind Power Co. expects to begin building the second phase of its Donghai Bridge wind farm near Shanghai at the end of the year. The 100.8 MW offshore facility will cost 1.9 billion yuan ($310 million), Vice General Manager Zhang Kaihua said in an interview in Shanghai. The project, which will take 20 months to build, will use 28 turbines from Shanghai Electric Group Co.  capable of producin ...

Chinese power companies and Japanese trading houses are emerging as major financiers of African renewable energy projects, which saw investment quadruple to $9.3 billion last year, Baker & McKenzie LLP said. “Asian investors are increasingly targeting African renewable energy projects,” attracted by better returns and strong wind and solar resources on the continent, the Chicago-based law firm said in r ...

Welfare groups have accused electricity generators of using a wind failure as a smokescreen for a wholesale electricity price spike that will increase electricity bills. The incident happened last week when the price increased from the average below $100 per MwH to $12,199 MwH. An investigation by the Federal Government's Australian Energy Market Operator has found a number of the reasons can be traced back ...

Redes Energéticas Nacionais has signed a technical consultancy agreement with the Jibei Electric Power Company, which belongs to the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), for the integration of wind energy into the Chinese transmission grid. This agreement is part of the Wind Power, Photovoltaic, Energy Storage and Transmission Pilot Project (WPST), a larger project undertaken with the Chinese government ...

Chinese wind and hydro-power engineering firm Hydrochina Corporation has signed a 30MW wind farm deal with Pakistani wind power company Tapal, in Beijing. Hydrochina, a subsidiary of Power Construction Corporation of China, will install 12 2.5MW wind turbines in the Tapal project in the north-east of Sindh province, 150 kilometres from Karachi. Hydrochina did not name the Chinese turbine maker. Each wind tu ...

Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power utility, on Tuesday said it generated 49.83 million units of solar power and 796 MUs of wind power from its various projects in India, until March 31, 2013. As part of its sustainability initiative, the company is committed to generating 20-25% of its total generation capacity from clean energy sources. Tata Power plans to add 30-50 MW of solar power and 150-200 ...

A recently announced project, known as Forward (Fukushima floating offshore wind farm demonstration), will be delivered by a consortium of 11 companies and join two floating scale pilots already in Japanese waters. Funded entirely by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the project will have a leadership team provided by conglomerate Marubeni (Tokyo, Japan), with the University of Tokyo act ...

Vietnam's second wind-power project in southern Bac Lieu province has been connected to the national electricity grid.
After nearly three years of construction, work on Phase 1 of the Bac Lieu wind-power project, the first one of this kind in the Mekong Delta, was completed with the installation of 10 turbines totaling 16 MW. The project will have 62 turbines, provided by American General Electric (GE), wit ...

Inox Wind Ltd., India’s fourth-largest wind turbine supplier, may spend 1.5 billion rupees ($27 million) to expand capacity at two plants in Gujarat state as it targets greater market share. The company, whose customers include Oil India Ltd. (OINL) and Welspun Energy Ltd., may boost capacity to 800 megawatts from its rotor blade and tower factories in the western India state, from 500 megawatts this year, ...