China

China issues first green power trading certificates

These were released in time before subsidies are cut.

China Huadian jumps aboard BlackGold's 600MW coal-fired project in Indonesia

It will be the EPC contractor and the operations and maintenance contractor.

China built the world's most massive floating solar project

It's on a lake formed by a collapsed coal mine.

China eyes tripling gas supply by 2030

Domestic gas production will be doubled to achieve this.

China eyes merging seven power generation firms into three

Shenhua, Datang Power and CGN will become one.

China to add 199.5MW of power in Hebei province

27 units of wind turbines will be installed.

China to encourage mergers among coal companies

This is to hike operational efficiency amongst them.

Back to the future? – A shakeup in industrial solar

Michael Graetzel of Switzerland, is announced as the winner of the 2017 Global Energy Prize for his “transcendent merits in the development of low cost and efficient solar cells”. The Global Energy Prize is the world’s leading prize for advanced energy research awarded annually and he will be honored as this year’s laureate with a nice gold medal (and the US$693,000 is a nice touch too). The announcement had all the trappings of typical of a big media release as well.