India is said to impose an anti-dumping tax on major solar cell and module producers globally and they will include China. Sources said recently that required by local PV firms, the Indian government would impose an anti-dumping tax on major solar cell and module producers in the world and they would include China, Malaysia and the US. The Indian anti-dumping watchdog said at the end of last year that on th ...

China-based wind turbine maker Sinovel is shutting down four subsidiaries and insists the closures are not related to its legal issues with the U.S. In a company filing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the manufacturer revealed it will close the company's units in the U.S., Canada, Italy and Belgium, according to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report. At press time, Sinovel did not respond to requests for comme ...

Citing fundamental differences in commercial priorities and business strategy, GE says it has come to a mutual agreement to dissolve its joint venture with China-based Harbin Electric. In September 2011, GE announced the joint venture would work to manufacture and supply wind turbines to customers in China. Under the agreement, Harbin took 51% ownership of a new manufacturing facility in Zhenjiang, with GE ...

Gamesa Wind Turbines has signed a 46 MW wind power project order with ITC Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division, part of the ITC Group. Under this contract Gamesa would be supplying 23X 2MW turbines to ITC at Tagguparthi, Andhra Pradesh. The commissioning is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of 2014. Gamesa would be undertaking the full scope of site development, supply & commissioning ...

Australian scientists are currently studying the use of titanium dioxide, a chemical widely used as a whitening pigment, which could help store energy produced by renewable sources. The researchers said titanium dioxide which was widely used as a whitening pigment in toothpastes, plastics, sunscreens and many more applications could prove a major boon for renewable energy sector. Chemist Yun Liu, a scientis ...

A state-owned electricity company received the go-ahead to build what could be New Zealand’s largest wind farm just north of the capital, Wellington. A statement from Genesis Energy said it had no immediate plans to start construction after the country’s Environment Court confirmed resource consents for 286 turbines with a potential total generating capacity of 860 MW. Genesis Energy chief executive Albert ...

Indonesia plans to use auctions to award solar-power projects, taking a cue from countries such as India and Brazil where competitive bidding has helped drive down the cost of renewable energy. Developers will bid at a discount to the state-set top price of 25 U.S. cents a kilowatt-hour of production, Alihuddin Sitompul, director for new energy and renewable energy at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Reso ...

In what should be welcome news for the power hit-Andhra Pradesh, the Union coal ministry has allocated a huge coal block in Odisha to APGenco that would allow the generation company to produce another 4,000 MW of power annually for the next 30 years. The allocation has come in the form of the 701 million tonnes Sarapal-Nuapara coal block in Talcher coalfields of Odisha. However, according to sources in the ...

Japan, eager to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions, has begun pitching its fuel-efficient coal-fired power generating facilities to Asian countries, which rely on the fossil fuel for their energy needs. The policy would seem to fly in the face of efforts by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to promote exports of Japanese nuclear technology as part of a package of measures to improve the economy. Demand for coal po ...

In a radical strategy to contain power bills, households would get lower rates in return for enduring short, but sharp, price increases when demand is at its highest. They could also be paid to go without air-conditioning. EnergyAustralia, which has 2.8 million customers in southeast Australia, is trialing charging households more than 12 times the normal price of power up to 14 times a year in two-hour "dy ...