Over the next three years, Delhi will increase renewable generation capacity in the city by 6 GW through a variety of government initiatives.
All units of the 1.2 GW Jinzhai pumped storage hydropower plant in China have been successfully connected to the grid and have completed 15 days of trial operation.
A power blackout across the whole of Pakistan was triggered on 23 January when the frequency of the grid fell outside operating limits, according to the country’s Ministry of Energy.
GE Gas Power and IHI have signed an MOU to jointly develop ammonia combustion technologies for heavy duty gas turbines to generate electricity with reduce or near-zero CO2 emissions.
JA Solar has entered into a partnership with AMEA Power, and will enter into a consortium with China Energy Engineering Group, China Energy International Group, and Zhejiang Thermal Power Construction to provide an integrated solution for the GW-scale wind and PV energy projects AMEA is embarking on.
The French Government will provide a €120 million loan for the development of the 128 MW Keyal Khwar Hydropower Project, located near Pattan, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.
The Indian Government has set a target to annually auction 8 GW of wind power projects to the end of 2030 to boost renewable energy capacity.
Mitsubishi Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have said that they plan to integrate their power generation business and expand globally, with the expectation that electricity demand will increase.
In its efforts to adopt advanced powering technology to decarbonise power generation in India, NTPC, the country’s largest power generating utility, signed an MOU with GE Power India to demonstrate technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of NTPC’s existing coal-fired power plants.
A 120 MW PV power generation project has been connected to the grid and started supplying electricity in Tibet, according to China Huadian Corporation.