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  • Taiwan-based solar cell makers benefit eu china war

    JAPAN, 2013/06/28 Due to the expectation that Japan will lower its solar feed-in-tariff (FIT) in April and the US punitive tariffs' impacts on China-made solar products, some tier-one Taiwan-based solar cell makers have seen orders rising. The Japan solar market has been seeing a surge of request due to the expected incentive cut. In the completed, Japan-based firms tended to issue orders to solar firms in Better China but due to consideration of conversion efficiency, trade barriers against China-based firms, and an ongoing territorial dispute between Japan and China, Japan-based firms have been increasing orders to Taiwan-based firms.

  • China PV makers squeezed by EU duties

    CHINA, 2013/06/28 Chinese solar panel firms said Wednesday that the EU's punitive duties on imported photovoltaic products from China will erode their low margins and could even drive them out of a key market. EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht announced Tuesday that the EU will impose provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of solar panels, cells and wafers from China. An interim punitive business of 11.8 % will apply to all Chinese solar panel imports starting from Thursday. The business will be raised to an average of 47.6 % two months later if both sides fail to find a solution.

  • Ministry of Commerce spokesman Shen Danyang

    CHINA, 2013/05/23 China warned that the European Union's proposed levying of punitive duties on Chinese solar panels would "severely impair" bilateral trade ties. The comments Thursday by Ministry of Commerce spokesman Shen Danyang came next the European Commission agreed to a proposition to levy provisional duties ranging from 37-68 % on Chinese solar panels.

  • Dr Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy

    INDIA, 2013/04/21 Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New & Renewable Energy today met Spanish delegation led by Ms. Carmen Vela Olmo, Minister of National for Research, Development and Innovation. Both the leaders agreed to enhance research, cooperation and technologies in the field of Renewable Energy.

  • Oil pipeline in Myanmar mutually beneficial

    CHINA, 2013/04/21 A Chinese oil pipeline project in Myanmar can boost the local economy, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday. "The oil pipeline project has undergone scientific study and strict examination and conforms with local regulations and laws," spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily press briefing.

  • How To Make Solar Technology More Efficient

    EUROPE, 2013/04/15  How fitting for a German-born innovator and inventor to prove Albert Einstein’s opinion, true. Nothing, as a source of energy matches the sun. It out-powers anything that human ability, through technology could ever invent. Only a minuscule fraction of the sun’s power output reaches earth, but that which does, provides 10,000 times as much as all the commercial energy that humans use on the planet. Solar energy from the sun, accounts for more than the entire annual global supply of fossil produced energy.

  • Chinese companies move into renewable energy and water sectors in Portugal

    CHINA, 2013/04/09 Solar energy and water and sanitation are the new business areas for Chinese companies in Portugal, where the country by presently has a presence in power generation and distribution. Last week the Hanergy Solar Group said in a Hong Kong market filing that it had agreed to buy solar energy parks in Portugal, without naming the seller.

  • China's wind farms

    CHINA, 2013/01/29 China's wind farms are moving offshore, with the major project going into commercial use in coastal Jiangsu province. The 150-megawatt farm opened off Rudong county in November and will supply up to 190,000 residents with renewable energy a year, according to the China Longyuan Power Group, which runs the farm.

  • Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj

    MONGOLIA, 2013/01/01 Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj said Monday that his country had rich renewable energy resources and would vigorously pursue development in this area. Solar, wind and other renewable energy resources were very rich in Mongolia, Elbegdorj said at the opening of the Northeast Asia Renewable Energy Resources Cooperation Forum.

  • Cambodian Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy

    CAMBODIA, 2013/01/01 The United Nations Development Program and Cambodian Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy on Thursday jointly held a workshop on Sustainable Energy for Amount ( SE4All) in order to discuss the next of sustainable energy in Cambodia. The workshop, opened by Suy Sem, Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy, and UN Resident Coordinator Douglas Broderick, was attended by 80 people from various ministries, development partners, non-governmental organizations and civil society.
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