China

China on the way to building more solar power stations

Total capacity of new stations will reach 12 GW.

China on the way to building more solar power stations

Total capacity of new stations will reach 12 GW.

Energy demand in China slowing down

This due to “greener” economic growth.

China’s largest NiH battery plant now operational

Nickel-hydrogen battery plant is located in Changsha City.

Shunfeng buys Chinese assets of bankrupt Suntech

Suntech once world's largest solar panel maker by capacity.

China reveals five-year plan for shale gas industry

Wants to duplicate US success in shale gas extraction.

Chinese firm set to rehabilitate key Philippine power plant

Chinese dominate bidding for Agus VI hydroelectric power plant.

China completes construction of first coal-to-gas project

Plant will start supplying gas to Beijing by yearend.

Reforms could end monopolies in China’s energy sector

More private capital to exploit oil and gas resources. Wang Zhen, deputy director of the institute of energy strategy at the China University of Petroleum, claims monopolies in China's energy sector are coming to end. He noted that reforms will no longer stress state-ownership but will instead focus on competence and willingness to carry out national industrial policy. Reforms will prioritize the needs of the whole oil refining industry, he said. Analysts expect higher imports of refined oil products, allowing more private investors into the business.

China Longyuan wins two wind power projects in South Africa

Projects located in North Cape Province. China Longyuan Power has been awarded bids for two wind power projects totaling 244 MW by the Department of Energy, South Africa under the third round of the South African government's Renewable Energy Procurement Program.

US committed to nuclear collaboration with China

Both will develop new nuclear reactors. U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said both countries will also encourage joint bids for projects elsewhere. He said Westinghouse Electric Company (Toshiba), one of the world's leading nuclear firms, was prepared to bid for reactor tenders in Britain with the China National Nuclear Corporation and the State Nuclear Power Technology Company.

Coal to reign as dominant energy source by 2020

Will replace oil despite clean energy initiatives.

Chinese scientists develop revolutionary “smart window”

Window both reflects heat and generates electricity.

Energy efficiency is the world’s “first fuel”

Vital to cutting carbon emissions and promoting energy security.