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Australia's Pacific Hydro closes $81.5m financing for 100MW solar farm

The project is expected to be completed in mid-2019 and comprise 400,000 PV modules.

Australia's Pacific Hydro closes $81.5m financing for 100MW solar farm

The project is expected to be completed in mid-2019 and comprise 400,000 PV modules.

India could auction 18 coal blocks

It will open nine tenders to private companies. 

Tohoku Electric to decommission Onagawa-1 nuclear reactor

Safety upgrades for the reactor were too expensive, it said.

Azure Power raised $400m since June 2018

It will fund the realisation of its 2GW solar pipeline.

Monks to sell electricity in western Japan

It will get electricity from traditional sources in its first year and then switch to renewables.

Malaysia kills 4 IPPs amidst tariff saving efforts

One of the IPPs is a 700MW gas power plant held by Malakoff and TNB.

ASEAN inks deal with IRENA for rapid renewable energy development

IRENA will support renewables projects with its project facilitation platforms.

Singapore to pilot deployment of energy storage systems

ESS can prevent intermittency of renewable power sources and enhance grid stability.

Sembcorp Marine seals two renewable energy contracts worth over $200m

It will engineer and construct projects for Denmark’s Ørsted Wind Power and Norway’s Norled AS.

SP Group rolls out world's first smart grid index

It has been validated by the Energy Research Institute of NTU.

SP Group unveils green energy trading marketplace

City Developments Limited and DBS were amongst the first of its renewable energy certificates (RECs) buyers.

Asia Pacific's offshore wind capacity could rise 20-fold to 43GW in 2027

Together with Korea and Japan, East Asia alone needs $37b of investment to meet ambitious energy goals.

Is the proposed Khurja coal power plant in India overpriced?

A “realistic” tariff for the plant is at 7.8 cents/kWh even if renewable tariffs are available at 4.1 cents/kWh.

Japanese-led consortium loans $1.31b to Indonesian gas-to-energy project

The project will yield a 1,760MW gas-fired plant and an LNG FSRU unit to fuel it.

Shikoku Electric Power eyes 40-year decommissioning for Ikata-2 nuclear reactor

Restarting was considered uneconomical due to the scale and costs of required changes.

Green Climate Fund's $1b investment in renewables includes projects in India and Indonesia

About $100m will go to an Indonesian geothermal project with World Bank.

Use of biomass for plants of India's NTPC a ‘bold' move

It follows regulators’ advisory for utilities to enforce a 5-10% biomass blend in their power plants.