The great Australian resource rush has undoubtedly been the primary reason for the countries impressive projection into the realms of AAA credit rating, but the outlook is seemingly not so rosy with old dogs learning new tricks and global market conditions changing in a way that was not part of the plan. The bright future flagged for Queensland's gas exporters has been confronted by the prospect of rivals f ...

Itron deploys water, heat and gas meters, wireless fixed network, and software to measure and manage energy and water, enabling Tianjin to make smart decisions about city services. LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. and TIANJIN, China — June 4, 2013 — Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that it has successfully completed the installation of a combination of 25,000 smart water, heat and gas meters and communication ...

Mitsubishi have released plans to turn Japan’s farms into solar farms. In October, Mitsubishi created a joint venture with the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations, JAMC Solar, to promote installation of distributed rooftop solar systems using the rooftops of facilities owned by farmers in Japan. On June 5th, JAMC Solar will break ground on the first of a pipeline of about 30 megawat ...

Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd. (Hitachi-GE) and AREVA today announced that they have reached an agreement aimed at improving the safety of nuclear power plants through the delivery of filtered containment venting systems (FCVS). The two companies intend to work together, including the adoption by Hitachi-GE of AREVA technology for the design, fabrication, and installation of these components. They will be ...

Chinese wind and hydro-power engineering firm Hydrochina Corporation has signed a 30MW wind farm deal with Pakistani wind power company Tapal, in Beijing. Hydrochina, a subsidiary of Power Construction Corporation of China, will install 12 2.5MW wind turbines in the Tapal project in the north-east of Sindh province, 150 kilometres from Karachi. Hydrochina did not name the Chinese turbine maker. Each wind tu ...

Earlier last week it was revealed that state-owned China Power Investment Corporation was mixing forces with Indonesia to bring a mammoth hydro project to life never before imagined on Borneo. The vision dwarfs Bakun, the largest of the large dams so far designed for Sarawak, where Borneo’s largest facility currently churns to a beat of 2,400 MW. With a whooping price tag of US$17 billion, the yet unnamed h ...

Nearly 200,000 solar panels systems on Australian homes may be of substandard quality, possibly needing inspections and retrospective work. This finding was reported by the clean energy regulator to a parliamentary committee which is investigating malpractice in the solar industry. Random checks by the Clean Energy Regulator revealed that 19 percent of home installations may not have been installed properly ...

Water companies in Singapore are attracting big-name investors as they profit from exporting their expertise to China, which plans to spend $850 billion over the next decade to improve its scarce and polluted water supplies. Singapore is a hub for water technology because of its own concerns about water security. With few domestic freshwater resources of its own, the city-state has been trying to reduce its ...

Sumitomo Corp., a Japanese trading company, will build three solar power stations in Japan with a combined capacity of 49 megawatts. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. will provide project financing, according to a joint statement released today. The stations are estimated to cost about 18 billion yen ($180 million) in total. One plant will be built in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido, in which Japan Petroleu ...

Thailand's largest private power producer, Electricity Generating Plc (EGCO), has accelerated its plan to build a new power plant in Khanom, Nakhon Si Thammarat, by two years to ease the supply shortage. The previous plan was to build the 7.5-billion-baht facility once the concession of its old power generator there expires in 2016, but the recent outage in southern provinces spurred the move, said presiden ...