Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has approved two standards submitted by manufacturer Trina Solar aimed at ensuring greater consistency across the PV industry. Trina Solar is the first PV company in China to lead the establishment of an international SEMI standard. The first standard is the ‘Specification for Packaging Protection Technology for PV Modules’ (SEMI PV44-0513), which a ...

Torishima Pump Mfg. Co., Ltd (“Torishima”) agreed to acquire a 50% interest in Fluid Equipment Development Company, LLC (“FEDCO”), a U.S-based manufacturer of pumps and hydraulic energy recovery devices, from its shareholder, and completed the transaction, on June 6, 2013 (June 5, 2013, U.S. time). FEDCO is the industry leader in the design and manufacture of innovative fluid machinery such as turbocharger ...

A group of scientists from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea, has developed a new metal-free fuel cell catalyst using edge-halogenated graphene nanoscale platelets. As a replacement for the expensive platinum-based catalysts this graphene application opens a way to affordable fuel cells. The research team of Profs. Jong-Beam Baek and Noejung Park of UNIST, and Prof. Limin ...

Marubeni Corp,  Japan’s biggest investor in electricity outside of utilities, agreed to study building power generation plants in Southeast Asia with a unit of Thailand’s state-owned PTT Plc. Marubeni and PTT’s Global Power Synergy Co. (SYNG) will evaluate adding power stations in Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, PTT Chief Financial Officer Surong Bulakul said by phone today. Tokyo-based Marubeni and Gl ...

Goldman Sachs, the New York-based bank planning as much as 300 billion yen ($3 billion) in renewable energy investments in Japan, is eyeing offshore wind power after building up holdings in more established clean energy sources such as solar. Japan Renewable Energy Co. was set up by Goldman in August after Japan began offering above-market rates to producers of clean energy. The incentives, or feed-in tarif ...

UK fuel cell developer Intelligent Energy could be on the brink of opening up a major new market for its technology, after inking an agreement with Microqual Techno Limited to explore the use of fuel cells in the fast expanding Indian telecommunications industry. The two companies yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding that could pave the way for a major deal, which would see Intelligent Energy prov ...

South Korea on Thursday fired the head of the state-run company that oversees the country's 23 nuclear reactors over a forged documentation scandal that has shut a host of those reactors down. Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power president Kim Kyun-Seop was dismissed from his post for the scandal involving parts provided with fake safety certificates, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said in a statement. ...

EVN has predicted that the additional charge is believed to reach 384 million kwh a day in June. The biggest capacity hovers around 19,600-19,900 MW. Since it is now the dry season, EVN plans to prioritize to use the electricity to be churned out by coal run and gas turbine run thermopower plants. The electricity mobilization from the plants would be reduced when floods appear which would allow higher level ...

ABB Ltd. investors, reeling from Chief Executive Officer Joe Hogan’s announcement last month to step down, want a more frugally-minded replacement to integrate the $10 billion worth of U.S. acquisitions he left behind. Hogan’s three-year spending spree added motors and low-voltage gear to the world’s biggest supplier of power grids. While the deals boosted profitability and helped ABB’s shares to outperform ...

Redes Energéticas Nacionais has signed a technical consultancy agreement with the Jibei Electric Power Company, which belongs to the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), for the integration of wind energy into the Chinese transmission grid. This agreement is part of the Wind Power, Photovoltaic, Energy Storage and Transmission Pilot Project (WPST), a larger project undertaken with the Chinese government ...