Power Utility

Celestica to increase inverter production in China factory

SolarBridge Technologies’ plans to increase the production capacity to over 70MW for its Pantheon microinverter have reached a promising new level...

Celestica to increase inverter production in China factory

SolarBridge Technologies’ plans to increase the production capacity to over 70MW for its Pantheon microinverter have reached a promising new level...

GCL-Poly orders wire saws at Applied Materials

GCL-Poly Energy Holdings has placed an order with Applied Materials for wire saws with a wafering capacity of 2.5GW.

Singapore economy fuels electricity trading value

National Electric Market of Singapore released its report on its record-breaking performance in 2010. In this light, the power generation sector is...

Phase 1 of Liangcun co-generation plant starts operations

The 300 MW Unit 1 of Liangcun Co-generation Plant Phase 1 of CPI Hebei Branch was put into commercial operation after a successful 168-hour full-load...

China Sunergy to penetrate UK market

China Sunergy has obtained the UK’s Microgeneration Certification Scheme certification.

Trina Solar fortifies Australian presence

Trina Solar has strengthened its presence in Australia by opening a sales and business development office in Sydney.

S&C launches 6800 Series Automatic Switch Controls

The 6800 Controls are available for overhead and underground switching and sectionalizing applications.

Birla to venture into thermal, solar power

Birla Power Solutions is looking at raising up to $100 million in the current financial year from private equity players to part finance its...

Centrosolar to manufacture anti-reflective coating glass in China

Centrosolar has commissioned its first anti-reflective coating glass line in Huzhou, China.

Smart Grids for the future – but what about today?

With the deployment of renewable energy technologies exponentially increasing annually, more resources are being allocated to all aspects of the...

Here comes the sun: Where to from here for the Chinese Solar industry?

The first quarter of 2011 has seen a Y/Y decline in demand for solar PV modules, exposing several privately held Chinese PV manufacturers to...

Can biomass power generation play a meaningful role in our power needs?

Understandably with each natural catastrophe, man-made or otherwise, the overwhelming case for renewable energy as a core constituent to our power...

20 years of Asia-Pacific wholesale electricity market development

17 March 1991. Just 20 years ago, I set foot in Asia Pacific for the first time. Since then, major changes have occurred in the landscape of Asia...

Asian Power - Exciting (and Frustrating)

In 1997, after 17 years in the UK energy industry, I joined an investment bank, I moved to Hong Kong, and I began to cover the Asian power sector...

Smart Grid Security in the presence of plug-in electric vehicles

Smart Grid is the modernization of the existing power grid using digital technology in order to derive a number of benefits such as energy efficiency...

CMC emerges as lone bidder for Barapukuria coal extraction

The CMC consortium is the lone bidder for future coal extraction and management of the Barapukuria coalmine.