Kansai Electric Power Co. said it has lost over 1,000 large-lot customers, such as companies and local governments, since raising the electricity rate for businesses in April. The number of clients that canceled large-lot contracts came to 1,050 between April 1 and July 1 alone, a massive increase from the 195 cancellations in the whole of fiscal 2011 and just 61 in fiscal 2012. So far, these departures are ...

Trilliant, a global smart grid communications leader in delivering solutions that enhance energy efficiency, utility operations and renewable resource integration, announced today a landmark partnership with Comintel to provide Tenaga Nasional Berhad Research (TNB) with end-to-end solutions for the utility’s first integrated smart meter and smart grid project. TNBR is the wholly-owned research arm of Malays ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co., Japan’s biggest power company by generation capacity, nearly doubled its coal consumption in July from a year earlier after starting new units that use the cheaper fuel. The utility, known as TEPCO, used 745,000 metric tons of coal last month, the most since at least April 2003, the earliest data available on the company’s website. Crude and fuel oil consumption fell by about 18 pe ...

Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic  module maker First Solar  is expected in 2013 to become the first PV engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) firm to install 1 gigawatt worth of solar power systems in a single year, according to market analyst firm HIS in its quarterly EPC & Integrator Market Share & Project Market Tracker. First Solar is forecast to install 1.1GW of solar ...

Vestas has been handed a 50MW deal from gas supplier Hanas New Energy for a project in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the centre of the country. Under the deal, Vestas will supply 25 V90 2MW turbines for the Yauchi wind farm. The deal includes a two-year service agreement with delivery set for Q3 2013. Vestas president for China, Jens Tommerup, said: "The relationship with Hanas New Energy so far ...

Chinese renewable energy companies are continuously pushing limits. After becoming the world leader in solar energy, the country is now home to the world’s highest wind energy project. China’s leading wind energy developer Longyuan Power recently announced that it has installed five wind energy turbines in Nagqu prefecture in Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region. The project site is located at a height ...

Government of Germany has committed a financial assistance of 201.50 million euros (Rs 1,630 crore) for Thana Plaun Project of Himachal Pradesh under "Himalaya Hydropower Program".  Of this amount, 200 million euros (Rs 1,618 crore) will be by way of reduced interest loan and the balance 1.5 million euros (Rs 12 crore) will be by way of grant for carrying out further technical studies of the Project. The de ...

Japanese trading corporation Sojitz has announced its first foray into the domestic solar power market, revealing that it will build four mega PV power stations with a combined capacity of 106MW. Sojitz will invest around ¥350 billion (US$362 million) across the four projects. The company has an existing 24MW power station in Germany. A 71MW plant will be built in Aomori, on the northernmost tip of mainland ...

International company working in power sector, the Galaxy Consortium will invest $2 billion to develop hydro power projects up to 1000 MW in all in various locations of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to this effect was signed between the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and the Galaxy Consortium in a ceremony held at Chief Minister Secretariat Peshawar on Friday. Secretary Energy and P ...

Japan is struggling to contain radioactive water pouring out of the Fukushima nuclear plant that was wrecked by a 2011 tsunami. In South Korea, prosecutors are conducting a massive investigation into forged safety certificates and substandard parts at many of its reactors. Nuclear power has long been used as a reliable alternative to fossil fuels in natural resource-starved parts of Asia like Japan, Taiwan ...