IHI Corp. has announced it has acquired a 50 per cent stake in each of US utility Exelon Corp’s five power plants in California. This move is IHI's first entry into large-scale commercial power generation.
Nguyen Anh Tuan of the Vietnam Institute of Energy has said that the country will soon face a serious power shortage if it fails to come up with increased power generation capacity.
Orix Corp. President Makoto Inoue has said that his firm plans to invest 100 billion yen ($1.25 billion) over three years to build solar power plants at dozens of locations across Japan with a total generating capacity of 400 MW.
Mitsubishi Electric has announced that it will begin an experiment that will involve the generation of electricity from train carriages when their brakes are applied.
Japan’s Tohoku Electric Power Company has announced that it will create a joint venture dedicated to photovoltaic power generation in partnership with Yurtec Corporation.
Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Company has announced that its 1180 MW No 4 reactor at its Ohi nuclear power plant has resumed supplying electricity to the grid.
The ranking is modelled on ACEEE's existing method for ranking US states’ energy efficiency, and grades 12 of the world's key economies on a scale of 100 possible points, in 27 separate categories.
A panel set up by Japan’s Industry Ministry to look into structural weaknesses in the country’s electricity industry in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster has submitted draft proposals to overhaul the power sector.
Abul Kalam Azad, the Bangladesh Power Secretary, has said that some IPP projects in the country are facing a funding shortage that is delaying their implementation.
A new “Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report 2012” by the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that renewable generation should grow by 1840 TWh globally between 2011 and 2017, an almost 60 per cent increase on the 1160 TWh growth between 2005 and 2011, and a 40 per cent increase on current generation levels.