China

China eyes merging seven power generation firms into three

Shenhua, Datang Power and CGN will become one.

China to add 199.5MW of power in Hebei province

27 units of wind turbines will be installed.

China to encourage mergers among coal companies

This is to hike operational efficiency amongst them.

Back to the future? – A shakeup in industrial solar

Michael Graetzel of Switzerland, is announced as the winner of the 2017 Global Energy Prize for his “transcendent merits in the development of low cost and efficient solar cells”. The Global Energy Prize is the world’s leading prize for advanced energy research awarded annually and he will be honored as this year’s laureate with a nice gold medal (and the US$693,000 is a nice touch too). The announcement had all the trappings of typical of a big media release as well.

China is dead serious on its greener energy mix

It's taking a leap towards becoming the undisputed renewable powerhouse of a low carbon-consuming world.

China keeps on wasting renewable energy and it just gets worse: Greenpeace

Wasted wind energy is roughly equal to Beijin's annual power use.

CGN Power's utilisation of nuclear plants to drop 2.2%

No thanks to declines in Liaoning and Guangxi.

China aims to hike non-fossil energy to at least 15% by 2020

Additional policies will likely be rolled out to achieve this.

Here's how China will leverage energy in its Belt & Road initiative

Power projects comprise over 40% of those in the pipeline.