America is the current leader when it comes to fracking and exacting natural gas and oil from shale. But the red, white and blue isn’t the only country with the geology to support the advanced drilling technique. Several nations can — including Asia’s largest emerging market, China. The nation features enviable reserve potential, with trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, and an insatiable energy appetite ...

A pilot implementation of the Energy Service Company (ESCO) through the project on installing solar water heater systems for customers is one of the jobs that Vietnam Electricity Group will do this year to realise the Power Saving Programme for the 2014-2015 period, according to the Vietnam Economic News.     EVN’s Deputy General Director Nguyen Tan Loc said the pilot implementation of the first phase ...

Australia is currently facing an energy planning dilemma. Here Energy Exemplar look at the Australian South eastern Gas System using their renowned 'Plexos' technology [wpdm_file id=20] ...

Deutsche Bank AG is weighing whether to refrain from working on China General Nuclear Power Group’s initial public offering amid a probe into hiring practices in Asia, three people with knowledge of the matter said. Germany’s largest bank employs the daughter of Shenzhen-based China General Nuclear’s chairman, He Yu, said the people, who asked not to be named as the deliberations are confidential. The Frank ...

NorthWind Power Development Corp., a company controlled by Ayala Corp., will start the third phase of the Bangui Bay wind farm in Ilocos Norte province to add 18 megawatts to the existing 33-MW project. Energy Department records showed the expansion project would raise the total capacity of Bangui wind farm to 51 MW, solidifying its status as the biggest wind farm in Southeast Asia. NorthWind has already re ...

First Solar Inc. (FSLR:US), the largest U.S. solar-panel maker, is close to announcing agreements to supply its technology to remote mining projects in Australia to help resources companies save on fuel costs. The company expects to develop as much as 200 megawatts of capacity for the mining industry over the next three years, Jack Curtis, First Solar’s Sydney-based vice president of business development fo ...

Intertek, a leading quality solutions provider to industries worldwide, is now recognised as a certification body in India for wind turbines under India’s Centre for Wind EnergyTechnology (C-WET) program. This expands Intertek’s global renewable energy capabilities, allowing manufacturers across Europe, China, and India to take advantage of Intertek’s industry-leading response time, capacity, and expertise. ...

he World Bank Group’s Board of Directors approved today US$ 526.5 million in grant and credit financing for the Central Asia South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project (CASA-1000) for four countries: Afghanistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. This transmission infrastructure project will put in place the commercial and institutional arrangements as well as the infrastructure required ...

A coal-linked project in China's dry Inner Mongolia region has caused a local water table to plunge and a local lake to shrink.  In neighboring India, a thermal power plant has been forced to shut down because of severe water shortages. In Southeast Asia, impoverished Laos risks destroying the spawning grounds of migratory fish species that feed millions of people along the key Mekong River as it pushes ahe ...

EVN told the Daily about this forest replanting plan as it began forest development at the Son La hydropower plant site last Saturday. Replanting forests is under way at Song Hinh, Quang Tri, A Vuong, Song Ba Ha and Song Bung 4 hydropower plants, among others. At the Son La project alone, the total forest area to be replanted is 300 hectares and EVN is planting trees there to offset the area that has been l ...