Australian firms Southern Infrastructure and Kaizen ANZ have proposed partnering with the Philippine Government to develop a 40 MW thorium-fuelled nuclear power plant in the Philippines.
The city government of New Taipei has announced that Taiwan is preparing to launch its first commercial geothermal power plant which will draw energy from a volcano.
The energy think tank Ember has said that India needs to increase annual solar capacity additions by 36 per cent every year if it is to meet its 2027 target.
JERA, Japan’s biggest power generator, has announced that it will decommission three oil-fired power stations with a combined capacity of 2.6 GW at Hirono in eastern Japan in October 2023.
Hydropower generation in Asia has declined at the fastest rate in decades amid sharp declines in China and India, forcing a greater reliance on fossil fuels.
GE Vernova’s Hydropower business has completed upgrading the first of six Kaplan units at the Qairokkum hydropower plant in Tajikistan.
Japan’s Chubu Electric Power has said it will buy a stake in NuScale Power of the US from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).
India has increased its use of coal to generate electricity in an attempt to stop outages caused by lower hydropower output and as its renewable capacity is struggling to meet record demand.
Doosan Enerbility has signed an MOU with Korea Midland Power (KOMIPO) on the joint development of next generation offshore wind turbines and pursuit of offshore wind projects.
Mitsubishi Power, a division of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), has been awarded a full turnkey contract to construct three CCGT power plants in Sodegaura City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.