Despite shutdown of nuclear power plants, Japan is not expected to raise its thermal coal imports significantly over the next five-seven years, as existing coal-fired power plants are running at high rates and new facilities are still on ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, nuclear power plants
Vikram Solar, engaged in manufacturing of photovoltaic modules and EPC contracts for solar power plants, has commissioned a 100 KW Solar Mini Grid system at Bahal in Haryana. The mini-grid will help power six residential blocks consisting ...
PV systems installed in China in 2013 had a total power-generating capacity of 12.92GWp, consisting of 12.12GWp (95.81%) ground-mounted PV stations and 800MWp (6.19%) distributed (mainly rooftop) PV systems, according to China's National ...
Yingli Green Energy Holding, a leading China-based PV module maker and PV system EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractor, expects operations to swing from continual losses since the second quarter of 2011 to profitability in ...
Tags: Green Energy, Energy
The value of China's equipment manufacturing industry ranks the highest in the world, with a value of over 20 trillion yuan (about US$ 3.22 billion) last year, accounting for more than one third of the overall global value, China's deputy ...
Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) on April 7 announced the establishment of Star River Energy, a joint venture with several local insurance companies specifically for investing in and managing operation of PV systems or ...
AU Optronics (AUO) is organizing a subsidiary, Star River Energy, specifically as a platform to invest in PV systems and solar power-generating stations, according to AUO. AUO plans to introduce financial investors in Star River, the ...
Tags: AU Optronics, PV Investment
Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials on March 3 signed with a few local banks for a 7-year syndicated loan of JPY3.5 billion (US$34.3 million) for constructing a ground-mounted PV power-generating station with an ...
Tags: Giga Solar, Japan materials PV
China's National Energy Administration has set a target total capacity of 10GWp for PV systems to be installed in China in 2014. The agency said 60% of the target capacity is for distributed PV systems and 40% for PV power-generating ...
Tags: PV Installation, PV systems
Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), Russia's largest coal producing corporation, has announced that it produced 96.5 million mt of coal in 2013, up one percent year on year. In 2013, SUEK's sales volume rose by one percent year on year ...
Quotes for a solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer have risen from US$1 in December 2013 to US$1.05 currently, and are expected to rise to US$1.08 in February and further to US$1.10 in March, according to chairman Guo Yan-ting of ...
Tags: Solar-Grade, Silicon Wafers
The United States requested consultations with China on Monday over the latter's implementation of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB)'s recommendations and rulings in a high-tech steel dispute between the two countries, announced the World ...
Tags: Steel Duties, WTO rulings
US Trade Representative Michael Froman said Monday that the United States was requesting China to enter into a consultation over Chinese duties on US high-tech steel exports following a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute. In November ...
Tags: High-Tech Steel, Steel Duties
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Monday that the United States was requesting China to enter into a consultation over Chinese duties on U.S. high-tech steel exports following a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute. In ...
Tags: High-Tech Steel, Mineral
The first generator of Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant located in the northeastern coast is expected to come into operation in 2015, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). State-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), the ...
Tags: Nuclear Power Plant, Lighting