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Construction of Taizhou City’s first solar photovoltaic power station has started. It is being supported by the central government with financial subsidies. The station is the first among the city’s four solar power plants that have been identified and approved by the Ministries of Finance and House and Urban-Rural Development as national pilot projects.

Isotope techniques using atomic energy will keep further deterioration of Sri Lankan dams subjected to seepage and leakage. This was pointed out by Sri Lanka’s Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka. “Isotope technology is a tool to detect leakage paths of existing dams to perform cost effective repair and modifications. Today most dams are subjected to leakage and seepage, while four dams are at high risk level, 10 are at medium level and others need intensified maintenance and this is possible with isotope technology,” said Minister Ranawaka. He added that it was possible to detect the leakage of Samanalawewa with the help of nuclear technology which is an important tool in this regard.

Planning permits for the Moorabool and Yaloak South wind energy facilities south of Ballan have been approved.

A joint declaration between Farnce and China facilitated AREVA’s agreements with CGNPC and CNNC. The authorities of the two countries made a joint declaration in December 2009 authorizing CNNC and AREVA to enter into detailed negotiations. Anne Lauvergeon, AREVA CEO, and He Yu, China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp or CGNPC Chairman, signed a long-term contract for the supply of 20,000 tons of uranium over a 10-year period. The contract is worth around 3.5 billion dollars. With Sun Qin, China National Nuclear Corporation or CNNC President, Anne Lauvergeon signed an industrial agreement on cooperation in the field of used fuel treatment and recycling. The document is the final step towards a commercial contract.

CER signed a US$10.9 million contract with Wengfu Co., Ltd. to retrofit a heat energy recovery system into an existing sulfuric acid plant. The plant is at the company's Fuquan City facility in Guizhou Province, China. CER's heat recovery system will be capable of generating 960 tons of steam per day at 176ºC and 0.8MPa from operations at the plant. The steam will be used to supply power for the plant, reducing its demand for electricity produced from fossil-fuels. CER's installation is scheduled for completion in August 2011.

CER manufacture and install two, large-scale waste heat recovery systems for sulfuric acid production for Hubei Sanning Chemical Co.

China Resources Power’s total net generation, on a consolidated basis, increased by 18.4% to 7,628,074 MW in October.

Gamesa’s wind turbines sales totaled 1,600 MW with 38 per cent coming from Asia.  The United States accounted for 22 per cent of sales. Revenues in services amounted to 227 million euro.

BP estimated is seeking funding from the Australian Government for its new solar energy project in New South Wales. The company estimated it will cost more than US$600 milliion.

Power Finance Corporation Ltd and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd signed an MoU to set up nuclear power projects in India. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Mr. Satnam Singh, Chairman and Mnaging Director, PFC and Dr. S.K. Jain, Chairman and Managing Director, NPCIL. 

General Electric wants to expand in Vietnam after putting into operation the Hai Phong wind turbine factory.

EAB got approval from local authorities to invest in the wind power project in the Vinh Chau district, Soc Trang province.

Chinese and South Korean firms want to invest in the $2.1 billion coal-fired power plant in Quang Ninh province. It is being built by the United States-based AES Corporation and its Vietnamese partner Vinacomin.

Neo Solar Power launched two new high-efficiency products, multi-crystalline Super17” and mono-crystalline “Perfect18”. Both products debuted in the “Intersolar 2010” in Munich, Germany in June 2010 and were highly appreciated by the customers.   The Hsinchu, Taiwan-based NSP’s newly launched 6 inch multi-crystalline “Super17” has breakthrough average conversion efficiency of above 17 per cent. “Super17” demonstrates panel makers the potential to increase power output to 250W, using 60-cell configuration. In addition, NSP’s 6 inch square mono-crystalline “Perfect18” with the “full square wafer” not only increases the active area by more than 2per cent compared to the conventional “pseudo-square” with the cut-off corners but also demonstrates extremely low light induced degradation. “Perfect18” has superior average efficiency of above 18%. With superior power density, “Perfect18” will be able to provide panel power output of 260W, using 60-cell configuration.   “These two ideal solutions are recognition of our efforts in strengthening R&D and enhancing production knowhow in producing high quality and high efficiency cells,” said Dr. Quincy Lin, Chairman of NSP.        

NSP will get 350 MW of solar wafers from GCL-Poly from the fourth quarter of 2010 to the end of 2013.   Neo Solar Power’s signing of a 3-year wafer supply contract with GCL –Poly further consolidated the long-term strategic relationships between both sides.   This long-term cooperation sustains both companies on production capacity and business operation, leading to significant expansion on global presence and a win-win situation.

Vestas wants to increase business in China and develop new clean tech solutions with Chinese partners.   "We see our role in China, one thing is to increase business with our customers, the second is to further cooperate with China to develop new clean tech solutions for the benefits of our business in and outside China," said Vestas CEO Ditlev Engel.