China

Honeywell will develop and implement China's first smart grid pilot project and feasibility study for managing energy use in commercial buildings.

A Shanghai-based joint venture for environmental protection through the development, design, integration and production of industrial energy saving systems has been formed.

China might not be able to limit its energy cosumption to its target of 4 billion tonnes of coal equivalent if left uncontrolled.

Still experiencing growth in its wind and solar markets, China remains the clear global renewable leader.

Hanwha SolarOne entered into a framework supply agreement for 50MW of PV modules, to be delivered to CNBM International in 2011.

Sanan Optoelectronics has started constructing a US$1.22 billion photovoltaic project in Anhui Province, China.

Oerlikon Solar will be supplying Dong Xu, a Chinese photoelectric glass manufacturer, with its KAI equipment. This is used in the coating process for thin-film silicon. Oerlikon Solar reveals that its KAI tools will be used as the core absorber technology for Dong Xu’s first thin-film silicon production line.

China Energy Recovery won two new contracts for 2011 delivery worth a combined US$7.5 million.

Juli New Energy will use cmNavigo Solar Edition MES for implementation in its Baoding, China facility. The execution of the MES solution will be completed by Critical Manufacturing’s Chinese unit.

Siemens and Shanghai Electric are on the verge of launching a joint-venture to supply the Chinese market.

ABB won an order worth $63 million from China Southern Power Grid Co. Ltd to design, supply, install and commission 800 kV UHVDC transformers.

Yingli Green exceeded financial guidance for its fourth quarter and full-year results.

The installations of the world's largest hydroelectric turbine generators have begun at China's Xiangjiaba Dam.

China wasted 2.78 billion kilowatt hours of power generated by its wind farms in a half-year period in 2010.

Sinovel Wind Group will finish production of the country's first independently-developed 6-megawatt wind turbine in June.

The largest wind farm project in north China's Tianjin Municipality has been connected to grid. It now supplies enough power for 247,500 households a year.