China

It has surpassed Korea as the second importer in 2017, and is on its way to pulling Japan down.

The 990MWe was plugged onto the grid.

Expected commercial operation has been moved to 2018 and 2019.

Part of the 150MW project is now connected to the grid.

BNEF says around 54GW could come online before the year ends.

Costs of wind and solar projects will keep dropping until 2020.

Last year it only built 1.7GW of solar power.

Coal power plants must secure enough supplies for winter.

The $750m deal is part of the company's plan to phase out coal.

70 turbines make up the plant.

Annual utilisation will be hiked to 70 million tonnes of coal equvalent.

These are with three battery makers.

The deal will give Kunlun Energy access to three LNG receiving terminals.

Coal-fired power generation in China is predicted to remain flat until 2040. According to EIA's International Energy Outlook 2017, other energy sources will make up increasing shares of its power mix.

It is now on the installation phase.

It eyes to fully open power trading after 2020.