SEVERE winter gas shortages in northern China have been forecast to continue until at least 2020, raising the potential for Australia's burgeoning LNG export industry to tap surging seasonal demand for increased spot cargo deliveries at higher pricing levels. According to global energy consultant Wood Mackenzie, winter residential demand in some northern Chinese cities will increase by up to tenfold from no ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a loan totaling US$110 million for a 100-megawatt solar power plant in Samarkand, Uzbekistan that will promote large-scale solar energy development in the country. "This project will be the largest of its kind in Central Asia and one of the largest in the world," ADB President Takehiko Nakao said during the 6th meeting of the Asia Solar Energy Forum in Tashkent ...

A Japanese utility plans to construct two cutting-edge coal power plants in Fukushima, an area severely hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster, a report said on Saturday. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the cash-strapped operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and three Mitsubishi group companies are seeking to open the new facilities as early as 2020, the leading Nikkei business daily said. Th ...

Water and power generation are inseparable. Fossil fuel-fired power stations require a reliable, consistent stream of treated water to operate effectively. Wastewater streams generated from the combustion of coal need adequate treatment before being discharged. GWI’s new primary research report, Water for Power, focuses on the opportunities for companies to provide water and wastewater treatment solutions i ...

Asian stocks rose, with the regional benchmark index rebounding from last week’s drop, as the yen weakened, Iran agreed to limit its nuclear program and investors bet improving U.S. economic data will boost earnings. Nikon Corp advanced 3.6 percent as the yen touched the weakest level in almost six months against the dollar, boosting the outlook for Japanese exporters. Warrnambool Cheese & Butter Factor ...

Singapore is keen on importing shale gas from the United States, and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong raised the issue during his visit to the White House earlier this year. Foreign Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam revealed this during a dialogue session at the South Asian Diaspora Convention on Thursday. He was replying to a question on the impact of the US discovery of shale gas on the region. Shale gas ...

The loan provided under the Asia-Pacific Disaster Response Facility will help Samoa rebuild hydropower plants, thereby reducing the country's reliance on fossil fuels Samoa will reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and improve its energy sector's resilience to future natural disasters with a 23.8 million project funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to rehabilitate three small hydropower plants on Upolu ...

The safety of South Korea's nuclear reactors "should be improved significantly", although no immediate actions are needed, an international nuclear safety evaluation body said after completing a five-month review of the country's reactors. Seoul has been hit with a series of nuclear safety scandals since late 2012, when certificates supplied for some reactor parts turned out to be fake. Some reactors have b ...

Philippine Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla says it may take six weeks before the first typhoon-hit towns get their electric power back.   Speaking at Cebu airport Wednesday night, Petilla said many transmission lines had been toppled and power plants damaged from Typhoon Haiyan. Petilla said that in the hard-hit coastal city of Tacloban, order needed to be restored "because if there's no peace and ord ...

Every autumn, as river flows dwindle, hydro-power-dependent Tajikistan restricts power consumption. This year the rolling blackouts began November 1. The relevant government resolution restricted provincial residents to only nine hours of power daily. Only Dushanbe and the oblast capitals are exempt from the cutback, which will be lifted sometime in the spring. The Nurek power station is vulnerable to decli ...