While the Chinese government has committed to eliminating 80 million mt/year of steel capacity nationwide by 2017, the reduction will be gradual which will see demand for raw material ferrosilicon remain steady in 2014 as compared with ...
Tags: Steel Output, Ferrosilicon
Japanese core machinery orders jumped 13.4% in January from the previous month, the government said Thursday, indicating that companies may be willing to boost their capital spending even after a sales tax increase in April. The large ...
China plans to raise citygate prices of natural gas consumed by non-residential users later this year, the National Development and Reform Commission said in its work report issued Wednesday at the start of the annual session of the ...
Tags: Natural Gas, on-grid tariff
Selecting a Chevy Volt, Tesla Roadster, Nissan Leaf—or one of many other new models—shoppers in the United States bought more than 96,000 plug-in electric cars in 2013. That's a tiny slice of the auto market, but it's up ...
Japan's direct-burning crude oil demand for power generation has picked up since late December as a cold spell across the country has increased appetite for loadings into March in the absence of nuclear output, industry and trading sources ...
Tags: crude oil demand, power generation
Grid operators have met their match and it's a growing number of distributed generators—erstwhile electricity consumers who've ended their reliance on the grid because their needs are met by rooftop solar panels. But this exodus from ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Electronic device producer, Murata Manufacturing is installing a 1.6MW solar power array at its subsidiary Tokyo Denpa’s (TEW) Gunma Plant. The factory, in the Gunma Prefecture, Japan, manufactures automobile parts. Construction ...
Tags: TEW, Murata Manufacturing, Gunma Prefecture, Sharp Corporation
For years now, communities have been taking advantage of public lots to built community gardens, allotments, and other community spaces where those without room to garden at home can have a place to do so. These initiatives have been ...
Tags: community, community gardens, community-owned solar gardens
Smarter, more efficient electricity meters aim to revolutionise energy distribution but WA researchers fear hackers could easily exploit numerous security flaws and wreck havoc on power grids. Smart meters measure a customer's electricity ...
Tags: electricity meters, energy distribution, power grids, security flaws
Guangdong, China's most populous province, is to launch a carbon permits market next month that will be the world's second biggest after the European Union, dwarfing those in Australia and California. China has pledged to reduce its ...
Tags: Carbon Market, Carbon Emissions
China's need for nuclear power is likely to exceed its long-term development target as the nation strives to lower its reliance on coal-fired power and cut air pollution, industry insiders said on Monday. "As demand for energy has ...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Coal-Fired Power
China will raise electricity tariffs for power plants running on natural gas in at least eight provinces, the National Development and Reform Commission has announced. Prices of on-grid tariffs at gas-fired power plants will be raised in ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, power
Regular inspections have been conducted on the number four reactor at Japan's Oi nuclear power plant. However, delayed inspections has once again led to Japan's "zero nuclear power" status. Since nuclear power is still the major source of ...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Triples PV Market
The modern world is increasingly reliant on data – internet usage is tracked and recorded, phone calls are logged and billed – but what about the raw enabling product itself: electricity? Although most of the world's ...
Tags: Smart Meters, Instruments, Meters
Texas State University (in San Marcos) has announced an agreement granting MicroPower Global Ltd (which was established in 2008 and is developing thermoelectric devices for energy conservation, energy harvesting and refrigeration) exclusive ...