(EnergyAsia, April 15, Wednesday) — Total E&P Canada Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of France’s Total SA, said it has sold a 10% interest in the Northern Lights Partnership (NLP) to SinoCanada Petroleum Corporation, a subsidiary of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec). With the transaction, NLP will be equally owned by Total Canada and SinoCanada....
(EnergyAsia, April 14, Tuesday) — China Sunergy, a specialised solar cell manufacturer based in Nanjing city, said it has signed a 10-year Sales Framework Agreement with asola Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems GmbH, a module producer based in Erfurt, Germany. Sunergy will produce and deliver up to 480MW of solar cells to the German firm...
(EnergyAsia, April 14, Tuesday) — Trina Solar Limited, a leading NYSE-listed integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products, said it has completed and launched the largest roof mounted solar installation in North America. The installation at The Atlantic City Convention Center (ACCC) in the US is the continent’s largest single roof-mounted solar array, comprising more than...
(EnergyAsia, April 14, Tuesday) — US major ExxonMobil said it has inaugurated its newest high efficiency cogeneration plant at its Antwerp refinery in Belgium. Cogeneration is the simultaneous production of electricity and useful heat or steam used for industrial processes. With the start-up of this new plant, ExxonMobil said it now has interests in about...
(EnergyAsia, April 14, Tuesday) — Bioenergy, when produced on a small-scale in local communities, can play a significant role in rural development in poor countries, according to a new report jointly published by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). The study, “Small Scale Bioenergy Initiatives: Brief...
(EnergyAsia, April 14, Tuesday) — China’s state-owned Sinohydro will pay for 85% of the $2 billion needed to build Ecuador’s largest power plant, a 1,500MW hydropower facility located 75 km east of Quito city. The governments of Ecuador and Argentina will help cover the remaining cost, said Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa who hailed the proposed...
(EnergyAsia, April 14, Tuesday) — Nasdaq-listed Satcon Technology Corp, a leading provider of utility scale distributed power solutions for the renewable energy market, said it has signed a distributor agreement with Parity Solar Ltd, a solar project developer and manufacturer of thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules in China. Satcon said the partnership will offer end-to-end solutions...
(EnergyAsia, April 14, Tuesday) — The ‘Malaysian Power’ conference, organised by Asia Business Forum, will be held at the Crowne Plaza Mutiara Hotel in Kuala Lumpur on May 26 and 27. The conference aims to discuss future investments, opportunities and key issues driving Malaysia’s power sector, the fall in oil and gas supply, as well (more…)
(EnergyAsia, April 14, Tuesday) — IBC Asia will be holding its ‘City Rail Asia’ conference at the Hilton Hotel in Singapore from May 26 to 29. The conference will feature leading case studies from rail operators and governments from Asia, Middle East and the UK. The case studies and interactive sessions will cover integrated transport (more…)
(EnergyAsia, April 13, Monday) — The ‘7th Asia Petrochemicals Technology and Gas Conference (APTC)’ will be held at the Ramada Hotel in Seoul, South Korea on May 12 and 13.The event will be held prior to the annual Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference (APIC), organised by the Korea Petrochemical Industry Association. The conference will provide updates (more…)
(EnergyAsia, April 13, Monday) — The US Export-Import Bank said it has approved a total of $61 million in long-term financing to support exports of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules by SolarWorld Industries America to South Korea’s Gochang Solar Park Co Ltd.The exports were used in five solar power-generation projects and helped to sustain jobs at (more…)
(EnergyAsia, April 13, Monday) — Cavico Corp, a US-listed infrastructure development company in Vietnam, said it has won a $4.9 million contract to construct a diversion tunnel and coffer dam at the Hua Na hydropower plant. Cavico said the contract was awarded by Vietnam Machinery Erection Corporation or Lilama, a state-owned company under the management of...
(EnergyAsia, April 13, Monday) — China Sunergy, a specialised solar cell manufacturer based in Nanjing, China, said it has agreed to supply 35MW of solar photovoltaic products to Taiwan’s Global Service LTM LLC (GSL). The supply will cover the period from March 2009 through to December 2009.GSL will supply the solar photovoltaic products to a...
(EnergyAsia, April 13, Monday) — Hong Kong’s Meiya Power Company Limited (MPC) said it has completed construction and launched its first wind project in Inner Mongolia, China. The first phase of the Huide wind farm in Huade county in Wulanchabu city has a total installed capacity of 49.5 MW. Comprising 33 sets of 1.5 MW wind...
(EnergyAsia, April 13, Monday) — Two Hong Kong-listed companies, Genesis Energy Holdings Limited and China Grand Forestry Green Resources Group Limited, have agreed to consider jointly investing in an existing biomass-to-energy project in China’s Hubei province. The 30MW project would supply electricity to a plant owned and operated by Grand Forestry.Originally developed by China Grand...
(EnergyAsia, April 13, Monday) — The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation said policy makers should include agricultural issues and farmers in negotiations for a new climate change treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto protocol.The organisation said agriculture accounts for about 14% of greenhouse gas emissions, and land use changes such as deforestation for another 17%....
(EnergyAsia, April 13, Monday) — Flood-prone Bangladesh is getting support from Japan and Asian Development Bank (ADB) to tackle the huge challenges posed by climate change over the coming decades.The ADB said its board recently approved a technical assistance grant of US$2 million from the Japan Special Fund to beef up the capacity of government...
(EnergyAsia, April 9, Thursday) — Shell has decided to focus its long-term renewable energy strategy on biofuels rather than wind or solar energy. Wind and solar energy projects were “struggling”, even with government subsidies, Shell board member Linda Cook said during a recent briefing for analysts. She said biofuels were much closer to the company’s...
(EnergyAsia, April 9, Thursday) — Gushan Environmental Energy Limited, China’s largest biodiesel producer, said it has doubled the capacity at its Beijing plant to 100,000 tons per year from last month. The latest expansion boosts the NYSE-listed company’s total annual biodiesel production capacity at its five plants in Sichuan, Hebei and Fujian provinces, and Beijing...
(EnergyAsia, April 9, Thursday) — Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corp said it has launched four new models of photovoltaic (PV) modules for the worldwide market, suitable for use in stand-alone solar power generation systems in regions where the local electrification infrastructure is insufficient or non-existent. The company said it will begin shipment of 36 pieces of...
(EnergyAsia, April 9, Thursday) — The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is urging governments to take quick and decisive step to stop the conversion of valuable rainforests into plantations for producing fuel crops. In a report, the FAO said that the expanded cultivation of oil palm, soya and other feedstock crops for biofuels production...
(EnergyAsia, April 9, 2009, Thursday) — PetroChina is considering building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Shenzhen city in the country’s southern Guangdong province. PetroChina may form a 51/49 joint venture with Hong Kong’s CLP Holdings and Shenzhen Towngas, Chinese industry reports said citing company officials. Officials did not say where PetroChina would...
(EnergyAsia, April 9, Thursday) — The ‘15th Coaltrans Asia’ event will be held at the Bali International Convention Centre in Indonesia from June 1 to 3. The conference will feature keynote speeches by government officials including Indonesia’s minister of energy and mineral resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro, governor for East Kalimantan Awang Faroek Ishak, and director general (more…)
(EnergyAsia, April 9, Thursday) — The ‘Seafarers 2009’ event will be held at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel in Singapore from May 26 to 28. Presented by Lloyd’s List, the event returns for the second year with a special focus on long-term development within the industry amid current risks and threats. Topics covered include the (more…)
(EnergyAsia, April 9, Thursday) — Eight wind turbines in Antarctica are withstanding temperatures of -60 degrees Celsius and winds of over 150 km per second to generate electricity at the recently inaugurated Princess Elisabeth Station. The station is the only polar base operating entirely on renewable energy, said Proven Energy, a Scottish based small wind (more…)