A key UN climate fund ran into difficult yesterday as major donors including Japan and the United States failed to meet a deadline for converting their pledges of climate aid into signed agreements.
Pakistan has awarded a $1.5 billion contract for what is claimed to be the largest solar power plant in the world. When finished the plant, to be built in Bahawalpur by Chinese company Zonergy Company Ltd, will have a power generating capacity of 900 MW.
The Japanese industry ministry is seeking to bring down the total electricity produced by nuclear power down from 28.6 per cent, the total before the Fukushima nuclear crisis, to 20-22 per cent by 2030.
The United States has submitted its target to cut net greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The submission, referred to as an Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), is a formal statement of the US target, announced in China last year, to reduce our emissions by 26-28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2025, and to make best efforts to reduce by 28 per cent.
China's biggest wind farm developer, Longyuan Power Group Corp., has reported a 25 per cent jump in full-year profit as its activities in wind power generation increased.
The top Chinese economic planner has approved the construction of the second phase of Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in Wafandian city, in the northeast Liaoning province. This is the first Chinese nuclear power plant to be granted such permission since 2011.
A recent study conducted by both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University in Beijing has found that the employed strategies to date may not actually lead to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. In fact, the Chinese government’s measures could actually contribute to renewable energy slow-down, the report concluded.
According to the National Energy Administration the installed grid-connected wind power capacity in China increased by nearly 26 per cent to 96.37 GW in 2014 – nearly 7 per cent of the country's total output.
French utility Électricité de France (EDF) has entered into strategic partnerships with China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) and China Huadian Corporation in China.
Kazakhstan plans to sell electricity to China, the country's Energy Minister Vladimi Shkolnik announced in a lower house session earlier this week.