Adani Enterprises, the Indian coal mining company, has set up a new subsidiary to produce green hydrogen and equipment for solar and wind power generation.
The Guodian Power Shanghaimiao Corporation, part of the state-owned China Energy Investment Corporation, has announced that the first of four 1 GW coal-fired units at Shanghaimiao in the northwest region of Inner Mongolia has entered operation.
Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries has announced that it aims to achieve carbon neutrality in its domestic factories and officers in 2030 through a 100 MW hydrogen-fuelled power plant it will build.
Zulkifli Zaoni, Chief Executive of Indonesian state utility Perushaan Listrik Negara (PLN) said that Indonesia’s coal consumption for power generation will rise by 3.1 per cent in 2022 compared to 2021.
China Huaneng Group has announced that the No 2 reactor of Shidaowan nuclear power plant in Shandong Province, east China, has achieved criticality.
Rolls-Royce business unit Power Systems has announced that it has signed agreements with Chinese partners and customers from four industrial sectors: power generation, construction and industrial, mining, and rail.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a $100 million loan to ACWA Power Sirdarya to support the construction of a 1.5 GW CCGT power project in Uzbekistan.
Grid connections across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have expanded in recent years to improve energy access, but increasing electrification is only part of the picture. Households and businesses connected to the grid often have an unreliable electricity supply, limiting the benefits. Problems are generally related to the capacity and quality of electricity systems, but a lack of financial resources makes it difficult for utilities to rectify them.
By Simon Trace, Programme Director of the Energy and Economic Growth (EEG) research programme, funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has announced that the country is targeting a 1.8 per cent reduction in average coal use for electricity generation at power plants over the next five years.
Fumio Kishida, Japan’s Prime Minister, has announced at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland, to provide $10 billion over five years to help Asia reach zero carbon emissions.