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
The increase in electricity tariff will push the prices of Indonesian garments by up to 50 percent, making the industry less competitive in both domestic and export markets, Indonesian Synthetic Fiber Producers Association (Asosiasi ...
Tags: Power Tariff, Garment Prices
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
The Canola Council of Canada (CCC) today announced a new 10-year plan to capitalize on the world's growing appetite for healthier oils and protein. Terry Youzwa, Chairman of the CCC Board of Directors, said the plan is aimed at increasing ...
Tags: Canola Industry, New Targets
Mexico's Secretary of Economy published Wednesday in the Mexican Official Journal of the Federation (DOF) the final resolution of research on avoidance of allowance payments on imports of steel plate carbon sheet originating in the Russian ...
The Australian government has decided to launch an antidumping duty investigation regarding quenched and tempered steel plate imports from Finland, Japan and Sweden. The investigation follows an application by Australia-based Bisalloy ...
Tags: Certain Steel Plate, Steel, Steel News
Despite efforts from some US states to re-evaluate their net-energy metering (NEM) policies, the impact of any potential changes on the US photovoltaics (PV) industry is expected to be negligible in 2014, according to IHS. "States ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Solar Markets, Solar, Energy
A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds of ...
Tags: honey, Chinese honey, food safety
Feed-in tariffs (FIT) have been the preferred policy in many regions of the world to help support investors to rapidly increase installation of renewable energy installations projects and markets. Under most FITs, homeowners, businesses, ...
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Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (RInfra) recently commissioned its fifth 400kV double circuit transmission line in Maharashtra through its subsidiary Reliance Power Transmission Ltd (RPTL). The 311-km Pune-Parli line that will connect key ...
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Techno Electric & Engineering Company Ltd has bagged a concession from PFC Consulting Ltd for building a transmission network at Patran, Punjab. The concession has been awarded on Build, Own, Operate and Maintain (BOOM) basis for a period ...
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Uh-oh. Consumer tire imports from China will reach a record 51 million units this year, the first full year without the infamous 35%-30%-25% tariff. Remember when the United Steelworkers complained that Chinese imports to the U.S. were ...
Tags: tire imports, Auto Tires
The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) has ruled that duties leveled on OTR tires exported to the United States from China under a previous countervailing duty order will remain in place. As published recently in the Federal ...
Tags: Auto Parts, tyre, tire
A group of U.S. senators are urging U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to push for broad market access for U.S. pork in the countries that are part of the current Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ...
The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) and Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) released the latest beef trade data last week. The data for October, the latest month available, showed beef and veal exports up 5.4% over last year with the ...
Tags: Cattle Markets, Beef Exports