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.
A report from the research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan says that coal will play a major role in meeting the energy needs of emerging countries over the next ten years.
The Japanese government has said that its industrial heartland must cut electricity use by 10 percent this summer, as the country continues to deal with the shortfall in energy supply as it recovers from the Fukushima disaster.
According to the China Electricity Council (CEC), China generated almost 3.9 billion MWh of electricity in May, up 2.7 per cent year on year.
The Japanese government has approved plans to restart units 3 and 4 at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Ohi nuclear power station in western Japan, after a month without nuclear power for the first time in 40 years.
Renewable energy sources supplied 16.7 per cent of the total energy consumed in 2011, though investment into renewables was still 15 per cent lower than the $302 billion put into fossil fuels, two reports published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) have said.