China

Solutia's new manufacturing facility in Suzhou was ready to supply commercial-grade Vistasolar EVA encapsulant.

The State Grid Corp of China plans to increase investments in the country's power grid by 68% in a five-year plan.

CWP has formally obtained the 200MW wind power project development right of phase II of the 10GW wind power base in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, and officially carried out the pre-project Works.

China Wind Systems, Inc. received a total of two purchase orders from its customer to deliver 40 solar chamber subassemblies.

The Chinese government announced that radiation levels from the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station remained normal and poses no threat to human health.

Vestas has secured an order from China Datang to supply 25 units of V90-2.0MW wind turbines. The wind turbines will be installed near the city of Hulunbeier in the north-eastern part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China.

ABB won a $120 million order to engineer and supply key equipment for the Jinping-Sunan 800 kV UHVDC power transmission project of the SGCC. The order was booked in the first quarter.

The Hangu Power plant in north China's coastal city of Tianjin will begin operating before June.

IBC Solar expanded its international business with new subsidiaries, including one in Beijing, China.

Vestas will sell 24 new turbines with a combined installed capacity of 48 megawatts to Longyuan.

Sinovel has bumped off General Electric at second place among the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers.

China's National Energy Bureau is drafting new regulations to standardize the examination and approval of small wind farm projects.

OPEL Solar International will provide 5MW of its HCPV panels and dual axis trackers to one of China’s electric power companies.

3M will construct a manufacturing plant for PV solar materials and renewable energy products in China’s Hefei High-Tech Park.

LDK Solar invested approximately $40 million to establish a new manufacturing plant in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province.

ABB will supply 800 kilovolt UHVDC transformers for both converter stations of the new Jinping-Sunan ultrahigh-voltage transmission system. The order worth about $165 million was received from State Grid Corporation of China.