Chinese firm Zhongli Talesun Solar Co Ltd has recently started constructing a 1-GW photovoltaic (PV) equipment factory in Thailand. Initially, the plant will have the annual capacity to manufacture 500 MW of cells and 500 MW of modules. The company’s unit Zhongli Talesun Solar (Thailand) Co Ltd is building the facility in the Thai-China Industrial Park, located in the city of Rayong. The factory is expected ...

A US$130 million contract has been awarded to an international consortium to expand a wastewater treatment plant in Vietnam by 328,000 m3/day. Funded by the Japanese government, the Ho Chi Minh City project has been awarded to Veolia subsidiary, OTV, Hitachi and South Korean construction company, POSCO E&C. The order was from the Urban Civil Works Construction – Investment Management Authority of Ho Chi ...

Willingness to explore the facts about nuclear energy shows Australia is waking up World Nuclear Association (WNA) applauds news of a Royal Commission to assess whether South Australia should expand the role of nuclear energy, as announced on Sunday (8 February) by state Premier Jay Weatherill. This will lead to an objective assessment of the facts about nuclear energy and should identify the most realisabl ...

Australia faces a A$17 billion ($13.3 billion) exodus of investment from its windfarm industry because of a political deadlock, threatening to deal the country a major economic blow and kill hopes of meeting a self-imposed clean energy target. Some 44 Australian windfarm projects, about half overseas-funded, have been shelved since a new conservative government said it wanted to cut state support for the in ...

Burma, or Myanmar, has recently become a lucrative destination for foreign investors, ever since the election a couple of years ago. For the hydropower industry, the natural resource rich country of Burma is among the last targets with high potential. A few weeks ago, the World Bank Group organized a Workshop on Sustainable Hydropower and Regional Cooperation in Nay Pyi Taw, with some 200 participants from ...

India can achieve the highest reduction in emission levels in Asia by 2050 by adopting agricultural practices that prevent the release of methane and nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere, a Japanese expert has said. “The reduction ratios of Japan, China, India, South Asia excluding India, and Small Island States in Oceania will be one percent, 26 percent, 33 percent, 15 percent and 25 percent respectively, i ...

Japan’s government is aiming to restart a nuclear reactor by around June following a lengthy and politically-sensitive approval process in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, sources familiar with the plans said. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has been pushing to bring some of the country’s reactors back online after all 48 closed following meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011, arg ...

MANILA, Philippines – Climate change solutions-provider World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) welcomed the timely start of operations of new wind farms in Guimaras and Ilocos Norte, which have already added 303 megawatts (MW) to the country’s power supply. It was reported in late 2014 that Trans-Asia Renewable Energy Corporation (TAREC) is in charge of the development of the 54 MW wind farm in San Lorenzo, Guima ...

The water industry landscape in the region is expected to face challenges in 2015 stemming from varied factors such as intense competition from new start-ups and non-conventional water companies, socio-political uncertainties, and new government regulations pertaining to public-private partnerships. 2015: Asia Pacific water industry to witness greater activity in M&A space Despite the rough economic con ...

Efficient, energy-neutral, safe and truly communal, towns of the future may look a lot like the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town. The pioneering project, 50 kilometres south of central Tokyo, is the brainchild of Panasonic and 18 companies keen to put their cutting-edge technologies in the areas of energy, construction, security and the utilities to the test. The first families have moved into the initial ph ...