Construction expenditures in China are expected to rise 8.5 percent per annum in real terms through 2017. Ongoing urbanization and industrialization, rising income levels, further population and household growth, and the government’s ...
More than 1,300 gigawatts of wind and solar power generation capacity are expected to come online in the next 10 years, creating an unprecedented amount of instability on the grid - particularly in key markets within North America, Western ...
Tags: Energy Storage Systems, Wind Power
Shale gas production in the UK could boost tax revenues and improve the nation's trade balance, but is unlikely to reduce gas prices, and is no short-term fix for national energy needs, according to Howard Rogers of the Oxford Institute for ...
Thailand's PTT LNG, a subsidiary of state-owned oil and gas company PTT, is going ahead with plans to double capacity of its existing 5 million mt/year LNG import terminal despite severe under-utilization of the facility. "The government ...
Sustained weak demand from North Asian LNG end-users, reflected in the slump in spot prices, has shown little sign of recovering despite the start of the traditionally stronger summer season. Coming out of the April-May shoulder months, ...
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A spike in Japan's thermal coal imports in April was more a short-term push to accommodate new coal-fired power generation capacity coming online rather than any sign of a sustained long-term trend, according to a report by Macquarie ...
Tags: New Capacity, Thermal Coal Import
China's dependence on foreign crude oil and refined oil products is set to increase, but the government has placed a cap at 61% of total requirements for the end of the current five-year economic plan in 2015, according to a new government ...
Tags: China, crude oil, refined oil products, energy development
The ¥70 million (approximately US $900,000) contract from Mitsui (MES) will be to further develop the Company’s PowerBuoy technology for Japanese sea conditions. Under the contract, OPT will continue to analyse methods to ...
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The latest data published by National Energy Administration shows that by end-2012 China has become the largest energy producing country in the world. China’s power-generation capacity has reached 1,140,000,000 Kilowatt. Among them, ...
Tags: China, Energy Producing Country, coal
Tehran Times reported that a thermal power plant with a generation capacity of 2.8 GW was officially inaugurated in Pakdasht, a city near Tehran. The project started in 2003 and cost EUR 270 million plus IRR 5 trillion to complete. The ...
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The Asian Development Bank funded 56.4 MW wind power project Jhampir is expected to start generating electricity from next month as the implementing company has completed all necessary work in this regard. This is in addition to the ...
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Iran is the world's 14th leading electricity producer, Mr Mohammad Behzad deputy energy minister of Iranian said that the latest statistics released by the International Energy Agency. Mr Behzad said that Iran has risen two places since ...
Tags: electricity, International Energy Agency, power generation capacity
Business Line reported that Neyveli Lignite Corporation has expanded its search area for the right pelletisation technology from Germany to Australia and Japan, as it seeks to increase the use of lignite for power production. The state ...
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Economy (i) Economic Development of Guangxi In recent years, Guangxi’s economy has maintained a rapid, steady and balanced development momentum. In 2005, GDP exceeded 400 billion yuan , 407.575 billion yuan to be exact, up by ...
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Tehran Times reported that the power generation capacity of Iran's hydroelectric power plants stands currently at 9.5 GW. The actual output of the power plants is 7.6 GW. In October, Mr Majid Salehi MD of Iran Power Development Company ...
Tags: power generation, power plants, electricity generation