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IEA predicts natural gas boom in China

  • 10 years ago (2014-06-10)
  • Junior Isles
The IEA has projected a near doubling of Chinese gas demand through to 2019 in its 2014 Medium-Term Gas Market Report released this week, as the gas golden age being experienced in North America shifts to the Far East.

US-China solar dispute intensifies

  • 10 years ago (2014-06-07)
  • Junior Isles

The US has moved to close a loophole that allowed Chinese solar manufacturers to avoid anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs by assembling their products outside China.

Renewable generation breaks records again in 2013

  • 10 years ago (2014-06-06)
  • Junior Isles
The latest Renewables Global Status Report by REN21, the renewable energy policy network, has revealed that global renewable electricity capacity rose to a yet higher record level in 2013, reaching 1560 GW – an 8 per cent rise on the 2012 figure.

World needs $48 trillion to meet energy needs to 2035

  • 10 years ago (2014-06-04)
  • Junior Isles

Meeting the world’s growing need for energy will require more than $48 trillion in investment over the period to 2035, according to a special report on investment released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) as part of the World Energy Outlook series.

EPA reveals power plant emissions proposals

  • 10 years ago (2014-06-04)
  • Junior Isles
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finally unveiled its proposals for new federal regulation of the power sector, with a target that carbon dioxide emissions from power generation must be cut by 30 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030.

Russia’s Altai region investing in solar

  • 10 years ago (2014-06-01)
  • Junior Isles
Russia plans to invest up to $147 million new solar PV and hybrid power plants in the country’s southern Altai region, near Kazakhstan, according to Avelar, a state-run green construction firm.

Inter RAO considering 8 GW coal plant to supply China

  • 10 years ago (2014-05-29)
  • Junior Isles
Russia's Inter RAO UES is looking into constructing the world's largest coal-fired power plant to supply China, in further signs of increased economic and political ties between the two BRIC nations.

Iraq to see gas shortage continue out to 2018

  • 10 years ago (2014-05-26)
  • Junior Isles
The Iraqi oil ministry has revealed that it is expecting the current shortage of natural gas for power generation to continue until 2018.

Russia and China agree key gas deal

  • 10 years ago (2014-05-22)
  • Junior Isles
Russia and China have finally signed a landmark energy deal this week which will see Gazprom provide natural gas to fuel China’s growing demand for the next 30 years.

Spanish Isotron to construct 5 MW Bolivian solar plant

  • 10 years ago (2014-05-19)
  • Junior Isles
The Bolivian government has hired Isotron SAU, a unit of Spanish firm Isastur, to construct its first solar power plant in the northern region of Pando, bordering Brazil and Peru.