The European Union and China may be close to an eleventh hour settlement over anti-dumping duties before the 6 August deadline, according to a number of reports. As previously reported, leaked information from negotiators in Beijing with Chinese officials are wanting to replace threatened high tariffs into the EU for Chinese manufactured PV modules with a minimum price per-watt floor, said to be in the rang ...

Plans are being discussed for a $1 million desalination plant. The project would replace the existing trouble-plagued bore water supply that has caused many problems for residents. At a meeting with SA Water last week, Orroroo-Carrieton District Council were unveiled regarding  a business plan outlining the desalination plant. The outcome of the meetings are now being raised with the SA Water Board for poss ...

“Marubeni will construct a 1,000 MW power plant in Cirebon [West Java] near to the location of its existing power plant,” Industry Minister MS Hidayat told reporters after a meeting with the firm’s executives on Thursday at his office, adding the construction work was expected to start by the end of this year. Marubeni would at first be required to secure a permit from the Energy and Mineral Resources Minis ...

China has fired a new salvo in a global trade battle over solar panels by raising import duties on U.S.- and Korean-made polysilicon used to manufacture them. The Ministry of Commerce said the duties of up to 57 percent are in response to dumping, or selling at improperly low prices. The United States and the European Union have imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese-made solar panels to offset what they sa ...

The IP behind the big dish solar technology that was to have been used for the $230 million Solar Oasis solar farm in Whyalla has been put up for sale. Chartered accountants Kazar Slaven, the voluntary administrators to Wizard Power, are seeking expressions of interest for the technology – which was originally developed at the Australian National University, by August 2. After a period of due diligence, fin ...

The amount of wind power produced across the world will pass a 300 gigawatt landmark by the end of the year according to industry figures. Key installations in Brazil, China, South Africa and Mexico will push the global wind power capability to beyond 300 gigawatts; the equivalent of 114 nuclear power plants. As global financial trouble continues to rumble on and investment stalls, the growth over the last ...

In an effort to curb energy bills, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is using Kitakyushu City as a test bed for a hydrogen storage system integrated with controller software, solar panels and industrial CHP (Combined Heat and Power) backup. The City of Yokohama, Toyota City, and Keihanna are also part of the Japan Smart City Portal experiment, which began in 2010 and ends in 2014. In Kitakyush ...

The U.S. Export-Import Bank board of directors voted on Thursday not to proceed with the financing of U.S. exports to help build a coal-fired power plant in Vietnam, following a plea from U.S. environmental groups to stop the project. The Ex-Im Bank board decision was made after a "careful environmental review" of the 1,200-megawatt Thai Binh Two power plant, according to a statement from the Ex-Im Bank, ci ...

The Ministry of Electrical Power has opened a tender yesterday to buy natural gas from local and overseas investors to meet growing domestic energy demands, according to official sources. The ministry plans to buy 150 or 200 million cubic feet of natural gas daily before March of 2014 to operate power plants needed to produce electricity. Later the ministry will increase the amount to 500 or 600 million cub ...

SoftBank and Bloom Energy announced today they will begin offering fuel cells this fall as an alternative off-the-grid power source in Japan. The 50-50 joint venture will target corporate offices, data centers, hospitals, government centers and other large buildings that would benefit from multiple power sources. Each fuel cell system generates enough electricity to power 500 homes. The cells also offer a w ...