China
Longyuan places turbine order with Vestas
Vestas will sell 24 new turbines with a combined installed capacity of 48 megawatts to Longyuan.
Longyuan places turbine order with Vestas
Vestas will sell 24 new turbines with a combined installed capacity of 48 megawatts to Longyuan.
Sinovel now second largest wind turbine manufacturer
Sinovel has bumped off General Electric at second place among the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers.
China to regulate small wind farm projects
China's National Energy Bureau is drafting new regulations to standardize the examination and approval of small wind farm projects.
OPEL gets 5MW contract from a Chinese power company
OPEL Solar International will provide 5MW of its HCPV panels and dual axis trackers to one of China’s electric power companies.
3M to put up renewable energy plant in Hefei
3M will construct a manufacturing plant for PV solar materials and renewable energy products in China’s Hefei High-Tech Park.
LDK expands in Nanchang with sapphire wafer manufacturing
LDK Solar invested approximately $40 million to establish a new manufacturing plant in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province.
ABB wins $165 million transformers order in China
ABB will supply 800 kilovolt UHVDC transformers for both converter stations of the new Jinping-Sunan ultrahigh-voltage transmission system. The order worth about $165 million was received from State Grid Corporation of China.
L-3 MAPPS deploys simulators for Hongyanhe nuclear training center
A second pair of L-3 MAPPS-developed simulators for the CPR1000+ nuclear plant design have entered service at the Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Training Center.
China Power New Energy avoids nuclear plant projects
China Power New Energy Development will not build new nuclear power plants this year following Japan’s nuclear crisis last month, according to Chairman Li Xiolin. The company currently has 13 nuclear power plants operations.
LDK Solar to manufacture modules in China
LDK Solar is opening a new cell manufacturing facility in Hefei City, China. Located in the Anhui Province, the plant will employ 2,014 and bring LDK's annual production capacity to 570MW.
Vestas gets 48MW China wind power deal
Vestas has signed its first wind power order in 2011 with China Longyuan Power Group for 48 MW. The order consists of 24 wind turbines V80-2.0 MW which will be installed in Fujian.
China approves 10 wind farm projects in Inner Mongolia
The NDRC announced that it has approved 10 large wind farm projects in Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, and Hebei provinces.
Inner Mongolia tops wind energy capacity in China
The installed wind farm capacity of the grid-connected wind power in Inner Mongolia reached 10.9 GW by February 2011. It became the first region in China to possess 10 GW of grid-connected installed wind energy.
China to replace nuclear power with solar
China’s National Development and Reform Commission revealed the government was planning to cut its 2020 target for nuclear power capacity.
Chinese power plants using air-cooled condenser to reach 32
Innospin and its Swiss partners will design the complete air-cooled condenser for the Dianshi 4 x 150MW thermal power plant. It is their 32nd project in designing air-cooled condensers.
Thinking beyond Compliance – a minimum standard
Owner‘s and operators of asset-intensive infrastructure understandably look for decades of safe and reliable operation.. History shows clearly how industrial disasters potentially cause immense damage to the environment, the economy and can be deeply harmful to a businesses long-term reputation.
Schiller to automate Chinese thin-film PV plant
Schiller Automation has won a contract for a new factory automation facility in Chinese a silicon thin-film factory.