The fishing village of Khoen Khen in southern Laos is a quiet place, nestled along the banks of the Mekong River and hemmed by a ridge of mountains. But tranquil as it may now appear, locals say they’re waiting for a coming wave of construction that promises to uproot their village entirely. The 728-megawatt Phou Ngoy dam is one of a proposed cascade of nine dams on the mainstream of the Mekong in Laos. Cos ...

Despite impressive macroeconomic growth, South Asia is plagued by numerous challenges that make the transition to renewable energy difficult. High energy prices, energy deficit, lack of reliable and sustainable energy supply, energy security concerns, last mile energy access issues and funding issues for a sustainable and affordable clean energy transition are just some of them. The promises and pitfalls of ...

The two nations are also expected to discuss concerns about the growing shortage of natural gas in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Yomiuri Shimbun TOKYO – Japan and the United States are arranging to strengthen cooperation in the development of next-generation reactors and other areas of nuclear energy, according to sources. Thanks to Japan’s drastic shift away from a policy under which there were ...

NEFIN Capital Taiwan Company Limited ("NEFIN Capital"), a subsidiary of NEFIN, renewable energy supplier in Asia Pacific, announces its cooperation with City Development Company Limited ("City Development") to venture into the solar energy market in Taiwan. City Development will assess, develop and acquire solar power plants for NEFIN, and be the largest developer and development investment consultant for N ...

Recently, the Longmenshan phosphate ore mineral processing technology research project in the Tianjinggou section of the Longwangmiao phosphate mining area in Mianzhu, Sichuan Province, passed the expert review in Changsha, Hunan Province. The project mainly studies the technology of direct production of phosphoric acid at low cost from the unique siliceous carbonate phosphate ore in Longmenshan. The on-sit ...

Ubiik, an IoT and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) solution provider, has won a $17 million tender from Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) for the deployment of an AMI system that would host 450,000 additional smart meters. Together with the 3 tenders won in 2018, 2019, and 2020, the 4th tender win will bring the total tender value won to $58 million and total deployment to 1.17 million meters. The proje ...

Repeated acts of breach of trust by Kansai Electric Power Co. left us dumbstruck. It was recently learned that employees and others in the sales segment of the public company illegally browsed information on customers of power producers and suppliers (PPSs) that are rivals to the Osaka-based regional utility. The sneak peek amounted to unscrupulous obstruction of fair competition. The utility should express ...

At first sight, LNG as a transition fuel appears to tick all the boxes: the world has abundant supplies in most key regions; it is of course a hydrocarbon, but the cleanest carbon-based fuel by a long way; there is already a substantial global LNG infrastructure, with further rapid expansion in liquefaction and regasification facilities in progress; and LNG bunkering infrastructure is developing fast to fue ...

Liaoning Province in northeast China saw a major onshore wind power project connect to the state grid and go into operation on Saturday. The 400,000-kw wind power project can provide 1.13 billion kilowatt hours of clean electricity every year, which can satisfy a whole year's power demand for nearly 600,000 households. The project can help save 345,000 tonnes of standard coal and reduce carbon dioxide emiss ...

Sungrow announced that the Taung Daw Gwin 20MW PV plant installed with its 1500V string inverter solution was commissioned in Mandalay, Myanmar. As part of the country's second tender for utility-scale PV projects built on an independent power producer (IPP) and build–operate-own (BOO) basis, the project can generate 45 GWh of electricity annually, alleviating the power shortage and power more local familie ...