As China’s photovoltaic industry has frequently encountered anti-dumping and anti-subsidy in foreign countries, most people focus on the solution that the government adopts to deal with the crisis. Thanks to cost reduction and emerging market exploitation, PV industry is gradually seeing recovery and positive development. However, many corporations are still facing hard times at the moment.   “The puni ...

High levels of a toxic substance called strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, announced TEPCO today. Strontium-90 is a by-product of the fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear reactors as well as nuclear weapons, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says on its website. The discovery of rising levels of such radioactive material is lik ...

Soonchai Kumnoonsate, Deputy Governor for power plants at the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat), has been selected by a committee to become the new Governor of the organisation. The selection committee, chaired by Deputy Permanent Secretary for energy Kurujit Nakornthap, on Wednesday reported the result to Egat's board, saying that Mr Soonchai had the highest assessment score of the three ...

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) says that a new coal-fired power plant in Dawei will benefit both Thailand and Myanmar. Confirming mutual benefit for Thailand and Myanmar from the new coal-fired power plant, EGAT Governor Sutat Patmasiriwat acknowledged on Tuesday that his agency has studied the new power plant project in Myanmar's planned Dawei industrial estate zone and found that ...

Sharp Develops Concentrator Solar Cell with World's Highest Conversion Efficiency of 44.4% and Sets New Record with Concentrator Triple-Junction Compound Solar Cell Osaka, June 14, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency of 44.4% , using a concentrator triple-junction compound solar cell. These solar cells are used in a lens-based concentra ...

PowerGrid Corporation of India Limited (PowerGrid) has sought permission from the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to upgrade its 1,700 stations in an initiative to implement the smart-grid mechanism. “The permission is expected to come in a month,” a senior PowerGrid official told Business Line. The official said the project would cost around Rs 655 crore and would be completed in three yea ...

In conjunction with Biomass Asia Conference held in Kuala Lumpur on May 21 CHE Metal Works Sdn Bhd, who is an established processing equipment manufacturer in Malaysia has entered into a joint venture agreement with a renowned advanced renewable energy technology provider from Europe, Torftech UK Ltd. The signing ceremony is also witnessed by the Ambassador and head of the delegation of the European Union t ...

Improving the quality of plastic pipe in China has become a focus for several major customer groups of the industry, including municipal water systems and natural gas utilities who buy pipe. The China Urban Water and Wastewater Association, for example, hopes this year to roll out a qualification system with a recommended list of suppliers, driven by concerns about pipe failures and leaks hurting city water ...

Godawari Power & Ispat Ltd. Has launched Asia’s biggest solar-thermal plant in India. The 50 MW plant in northwest Rajasthan state boasts 5,760 mirrors that concentrate the sun’s rays, generating steam to drive turbines, project Managing Director Siddharth Agrawal said in an interview. Output started a month behind schedule. India, beset by blackouts as coal-power stations are idled for lack of fuel, pl ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a push on Sunday for his country's nuclear technologies at a summit in Warsaw with leaders of four ex-Communist European Union countries, as part of his bid to boost the Asian powerhouse's exports. Abe recently unveiled plans to treble Japan's infrastructure exports to 30 trillion yen ($300 billion) a year, a target that could not be reached without nuclear reactors. ...