The Uttar Pradesh Government has said that the Indian state will set up around 6000 solar power plants to meet its clean energy target of 10,700 MW in the next five years.
China has donated more than 32,000 solar power generating systems to Nepal to enhance its domestic capacity in combating climate change, and to provide electricity to communities that have not had power since an earthquake in 2015.
GE’s Power Services business has announced that it has successfully completed its largest ever flange-to-flange (F2F) replacements project in Japan at Block 7 and Block 8 of TEPCO Fuel & Power’s (TEPCO) Yokohama power plant in Japan.
Resurgent Power, backed by the Tata Group, has emerged as the frontrunner to buy the Indian firm Jaypee Power Ventures.
Masaharu Nakagawa, Japan’s Environment Minister, said that Chugoku Electric Power will need to offset emissions from a planned coal-fired power plant through such steps as shutting down old fossil fuel capacity.
Harbin Electric Corporation (HE) has awarded GE Power an order for two 9F.05 gas turbines for the State Power Investment Corporation’s (SPIC’s) 800 MW Langfang gas combined cycle power plant project.
The northern Indian state of Punjab has announced that it is planning to set up a huge solar power project on the site of a newly retired 460 MW coal-fired power plant.
Taiwan is currently “99 per cent dependent upon energy imports”, according to energy ministry officials. However, a new energy policy promulgated by President Tsai Ing Wen’s government aims to sharply reduce this dependence on imported energy - in particular coal, oil, and natural gas - by 2025.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), Kansai Electric Power, Chubu Electric Power, and Hokuriku Electric Power have announced plans to grant access to each other’s backup power reserves to better handle dips in renewable energy output and other non-emergency situations.
South Korea has announced that it plans to increase its solar-generated power by five times the current by 2030 to boost use of renewable sources in the country’s energy mix.