(EnergyAsia, January 14, Wednesday) — Japan’s Kaneka Corporation said it will expand its thin-film solar cell production capacity at wholly-owned subsidiary Kaneka Solartech Corporation by 80 megawatts to 150 MW by mid-2010. The company will invest more than 10 billion yen in new equipment to produce cells that will utilise hybrid technology with a conversion...
(EnergyAsia, January 14, Wednesday) — The state government of Australia’s New South Wales (NWS) is expected to approve a A$400 million proposal to expand an ethanol plant. (US$1=A$1.5). The Manildra Group plant at Nowra on the south coast of NWS is owned by a supporter of the government. Manildra is Australia’s largest ethanol producer. After...
(EnergyAsia, January 14, Wednesday) — New Zealand’s NZ Windfarms has bought out its partner in the Te Rere Hau wind farm project to become the sole owner. NZ Windfarms is believed to have paid NP Power and Babcock & Brown WindPower more than NZ$20 million for the 50% stake. (US$1=NZ$1.7). The transaction is expected to...
(EnergyAsia, January 14, Wednesday) — Iran said it has agreed with Malaysia’s privately held SKS Group to develop two natural gas fields and cooperate on developing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal. SKS Group is linked to Malaysian billionaire investor Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary. Neither the company nor the Iranian government has provided any details. It...
(EnergyAsia, January 14, Wednesday) — The Japanese government plans to revive a subsidy programme for solar panel installations to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions after scrapping a similar support scheme measure three years ago. In a first phase, the government will offer nine billion yen to encourage households and builders to install solar panels. (US$1=87...
(EnergyAsia, January 14, Wednesday) — Sinoenergy Corp, a Nasdaq-listed developer and operator of retail compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations in China, and a manufacturer of CNG transport truck trailers, CNG filling station equipment and CNG conversion kits for automobiles, said it has opened three new retail CNG filling stations in Hubei province, China on...
(EnergyAsia, January 14, Wednesday) — China’s Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd, the world’s largest manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) modules, and Open Energy Corp, a developer of innovative and elegant building integrated PV (BIPV) products, energy management applications and solar energy solutions, announced that they have entered into an exclusive agreement to license Open Energy’s building...
(EnergyAsia, January 14, Wednesday) — Baoding Yingli Group Company Limited, a company wholly owned by Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited chairman and CEO Liansheng Miao, said its affiliate, Grand Avenue Group Limited, has completed the sale of Cyber Power Group Limited to Yingli Green Energy. NYSE-listed Yingli Green Energy is a world leading vertically...
(EnergyAsia, January 14, Wednesday) — The greenest consumer electronic products on the market have a smaller environmental footprint than those sold a year ago but the industry as a whole still has plenty of room for improvement, according to a new survey released by Greenpeace. “We’re on the hunt for a truly green product that...
(EnergyAsia, January 14, Wednesday) — Australian upstream company Santos said it has signed a new contract to supply natural gas to CITIC Pacific’s Sino Iron project, a world scale magnetite mining project in Western Australia. Assuming an oil price of US$50 per barrels, the contract is worth US$585 million to Santos over the duration of...
(EnergyAsia, January 13, Tuesday) — US-based Solar Power Inc (SPI) said it has signed a one-year agreement to purchase up to 60 megawatts of its six-inch polycrystalline photovoltaic (PV) cells from China’s JA Solar Holding Co Ltd. The cells will be used for the ongoing production of SPI’s solar modules and to meet growing demand (more…)
international energy advisory panel to boost the development of alternative energy use in the island state. Some of the key projects being promoted include the electrification of transport as well as the production of nuclear energy and energy savings options. To generate ideas and advise on alternative energy initiatives, the country’s Ministry of Trade and...
owned subsidiaries have clinched new contracts worth a total of S$200 million. (US$1=S$1.48). The new orders include the upgrading and conversion of a floating, storage and offloading (FSO) vessel into a floating production, storage and offloading facility (FPSO Okha) by Keppel Shipyard for single buoy moorings, the building of two RAmpage 5500 Z-M offshore support...
entry into the solar photovoltaic systems business. On January 1, its Transmission Distribution & Industrial Systems Company established a photovoltaic systems division to focus on meeting the rise in world demand for solar photovoltaic systems. Toshiba said it will secure orders for large solar power generation systems by drawing on its competitive advantages. In components,...
based Franklin Templeton Investments, said its Korea Emerging Infrastructure Fund (KEIF) has acquired a 32.4% equity stake in South Korea’s Gangwon Wind Power Co Ltd (GWP). GWP was established in 2001 to construct a wind farm in Gangwon province in eastern South Korea that is now the largest in the country and among the largest...
wind power development contracts to Alternergy Philippine Holdings Corp, a local firm linked to former energy secretary Vince Perez. Alternergy will have the right to assess the wind power potential in Caliraya in Laguna, Pililia in Rizal and Abra de Ilog in Occidental Mindoro. This year, the DOE is expected to award several more wind...
oil fields off the city of Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian energy officials said they expect China to offer up to US$10 billion in loans to pay for the cost of project development. State oil firm Petrobras said it has discovered up to 80 billion barrels of offshore oil reserves last year. But they have yet...
has begun operations with seven generators, each with a capacity of 700 megawatts (MW). The start up of the project’s first phase began after nearly eight years of construction. Project planners expect to add two more generators in the coming years, boosting power generation capacity to 6.3 gigawatts (GW). Project costs were not disclosed. Longtan,...
five new biofuel plants this year as part of a long-term programme to help meet the country’s biofuels blending mandates. By the end of this year, Chemrez Technologies, Senbel Fine Chemicals, Mt. Holy Coco, Pure Essence, Atson Coco Inc, Lion Chemical Corp and Freyvonne Milling Services will be among those with DOE accreditation. Under the...
day ethanol plant in the agro-industrial economic zone in Negros Occidental in the Philippines later this month. The 2.5-billion-peso plant will go towards meeting the Philippines’ 5% ethanol blending mandate. (US$1=47 peso). The plant, which will use 400,000 tonnes per year of sugar cane as feedstock, is integrated with an eight-megawatt (MW) co-generation plant....
awarded two contracts worth a total of nearly S$120 million to undertake environmental projects in France and Hoduras. Keppel Seghers Belgium NV will design and provide a full suite of technology package for a new waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France. Keppel Seghers Latinoamèrica SA will design and provide turnkey...
increasing the annual port dues for the operators of more than 100 bunker tankers for a year. The operators will pay the increased rates on January 1 2010, instead of January 1 2009, which the MPA said is in line with its efforts to work with its partners to grow the bunkering industry. The dues...
three hydropower projects in Laos with a total capacity of 420MW. EVN International Joint Stock Company and the Bac Ha Joint-stock Investment Company will team up with Laotian companies to develop the projects on the Namet River in Huaphan province. They are not the first Vietnamese company to invest in a hydropower project in...
exploring the possibility of building a 200-million-litre-per-year plant in Australia’s Victoria state. Coskata, which counts troubled US car giant General Motors as a key investor, is looking to build the plant with a local partner. The plant will use agricultural and food waste, old tyres and plastic bags as feedstock to produce fuel ethanol...
exploring the possibility of building a 200-million-litre-per-year plant in Australia’s Victoria state. Coskata, which counts troubled US car giant General Motors as a key investor, is looking to build the plant with a local partner. The plant will use agricultural and food waste, old tyres and plastic bags as feedstock to produce fuel ethanol...