China

Chinese province gears up for nine-day renewable energy trial

Qinghai aims to provide clean electricity for its 6 million population.

Chinese province gears up for nine-day renewable energy trial

Qinghai aims to provide clean electricity for its 6 million population.

Shift to feed-in tariffs hits Chinese solar manufacturing hard

New installations are expected to be limited to 30GW in 2018.

China's NDRC cuts solar subsidies to avoid industry overheating

The new on-grid power tariffs will range between US$7.8-11c/kWh starting 1 June 2018.

CGN plugs in Yangjiang-5 reactor to Chinese grid

It is the first Chinese unit that features domestically-developed control system.

China grants priority access to new grid capacity to renewable energy firms

This is in line with its goal to ease burden on these firms.

China Huadian eyes closing down 14 coal-fueled plants

Overall power generation of the facilities is around 1.86 TWh annually.

China's solar PV installations to drop by 10GW in 2018

But it will still grab almost half of the global demand this year.

China eyes firing up 5 new nuclear reactors this year

It forecasts a 6GWe boost in nuclear installed capacity.

China's wasted wind power drops to 41.9b kwh in 2017

This was an impressive 7.8b kwh plunge versus 2016.

China gives approval for merger between two state-owned nuclear firms

A US$100b nuclear giant will be formed if this pushes through.

Southeast Asia predicted to be more emissions intensive

This is despite wanting to achieve 23% renewables in the energy mix by 2025.

China's total energy consumption grew by 2.9% in 2017

Its installed power generation capacity grew by 137 GW to over 1,800 GW.