Power Generators

Greed, Inefficiencies Fuel China’s Costly New Coal Power Plants

Analysts fear China's renewable power generators may have to shoulder the costs of keeping under-utilised and loss-making coal power plants…

1 year ago

Pakistan Grid Outage Leaves Tens of Millions Without Power

The outage hit schools, hospitals, and factories in many cities across the country and shows the sorry state of the…

1 year ago

Vietnam Plans to Double Wind Power With $13bn US Project

AES Corporation plans to build a 4,000 megawatt (MW) wind farm off Vietnam's central province of Binh Thuan, the Ministry…

2 years ago

China’s Carbon Market Hampered by Fraud, ‘Weak’ Design

Experts say China's Emissions Trading Scheme has had limited impact, as its design is flawed and Beijing is focused on…

2 years ago

Power Plants in Three Gorges Sold to China Yangtze For $12bn

The company said this would lift its total installed capacity to 71.8 million kilowatts from 45.6 million kilowatts, an increase…

2 years ago

Japan Power Supply Creaks As Tokyo Faces Worst Ever Heatwave

Consumers in Tokyo were asked to conserve power as the Japanese capital was hit by the fourth day of a…

2 years ago

Power Worries in Japan Amid Rising Heat As Wet Season Ends

Japan warns that the electricity supply in Tokyo will be strained as heat increases in the capital. Officials have called…

2 years ago

Japan to Make Wind Power Project Bids More Transparent

Criticism has grown following the government's selection in late December of three consortia all led by Mitsubishi Corporation to operate…

2 years ago

Chinese Coal Groups Urge Production Boost to Avoid Outages

China's coal industry has called for producers to make emergency supply guarantee plans, state media reported, and said production should…

2 years ago

Japan Cancels Funding for Bangladesh Coal Power Plant

The axing of the proposed Matarbari-2 plant in Bangladesh came in response to international and domestic criticism of Japan's funding…

2 years ago

UK to Remove Chinese Investor from Nuclear Project – Telegraph

Kwasi Kwarteng, Britain's business secretary, is said to be pushing to end the use of Chinese state-owned companies in critical…

2 years ago

BP Buys 40% of $30bn Asia Renewable Energy Project

The UK-based group hopes to develop the Asian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH) in northwestern Australia, with eventual capacity of 26…

2 years ago