Tokyo Electric Power Co. may suspend power supply to companies and factories that are refusing to accept the utility’s higher electricity rates, which it has increased since last April by an average of 14.9 percent, a company official said Wednesday. The utility, which is struggling because of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant disaster that started in 2011, has been unable to renew around 1,100 contracts, a ...

The State Grid Corporation of China, the country's largest energy distributor, on Wednesday announced plans to facilitate the use of distributed power generation. Households and individual companies will not only be allowed to use small-sized power generation stations to provide themselves with power, but will also be given permission to sell extra power to the State Grid, the company said. Distributed powe ...

China Huaneng's Group started operations at their $2-billion coal- fired power plant on Jurong Island last week, the plant represents one of the largest investments by a Chinese company in Singapore. The Tuas Power plant, called the Tembusu Multi-Utilities Complex, is fully owned by Huaneng Power International. It will be completed in 2017. The facility's opening comes at a time when foreign direct investme ...

The World Bank is discussing plans to add 120 MW of electricity in Myanmar - enough to provide power to five million people - in support of the Southeast Asian country's reforms after debt arrears were cleared, a senior bank official has recently said. "Unfortunately only 25 percent of the population have access to electricity, so clearly there is an enormous challenge and our medium-term agenda is to turn ...

An Apple Supplier has been penalised by Chinese Authorities for turning a nearby river in Shanghai “white” after dumping pollutants during the nation’s Spring Festival holiday. Authorities first became aware of the problem after residents had reported that the river’s water had turned white, a local environmental protection bureau reported. The water was then traced back to RiTeng’s facilities in the area. ...

The Gillard Labor Government are set to invest revenue from the carbon price to support Western Australia’s Carnegie Wave Energy Limited in trialling a project utilising Wave Energy to power Desalination Plants. This world-first project will use the power of ocean waves to directly drive high pressure desalination pumps at a pilot-scale desalination plant, substantially reducing emissions and electricity co ...