Rising costs and environmental fears bring an end to Vietnam’s nascent nuclear power programme, forcing the climate-conscious country back into the embrace of coal
Swiss voters were likely on Sunday (Nov 27) to reject a speedy exit from the nation's five nuclear power plants, as concerns over losing energy independence outweighed the safety worries raised by the measure's proponents.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday he was taking steps to open up the economy to new players and foreign investors, including in power, energy and telecoms, to share its wealth and limit graft and protectionism.
The construction inauguration of Western Indonesia Bengkulu province's first coal-fired power plant invested by China kicked off here on Tuesday.
Disasters brought by Typhoon Haima have affected 1.69 million people in south China's Guangdong Province, said the provincial civil affairs department on Sunday.
About 800,000 families and businesses across the southern U.S. state of Florida on Friday were cut off power as killer hurricane Mathew continued to move up coast, posing a storm surge to coastal cities in U.S. southeast states.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan told Labour's annual conference here on Tuesday that Europeans will be most welcome in Britain, praising them for the valuable contribution they make to the British economy.
China General Nuclear Power Corp said on Thursday its first offshore wind power project is in the final stages of going online－as it also unveiled its ambition to diversify to other businesses beyond nuclear power.
A power plant explosion killed at least 21 people and injured five, three of them seriously, in Dangyang, Hubei province, on Thursday, according to China's top work safety watchdog.
From an Africa-shaped mega solar plant powering Kigali, Rwanda, to a massive geothermal plant harvesting the power of Kenya's hot springs, renewable energy plants are popping up around the continent.
Moisture seeping into power cable led to short circuit which plunged part of Central station into darkness earlier this month.
A Japanese court kept its ban on operation of two nuclear reactors at the Takahama power plant in Fukui Prefecture on Friday by rejecting the plant operator’s request to suspend an injunction it had issued over the reactivated reactors.
An environment expert has said Chinese know-how in renewable energy development could help generate clean and sustainable power in Africa, which is home to almost half the global population lacking access to electricity.
Thai and Myanmar companies are seeking to establish solar and wind power plants in Yangon and Ayeyawaddy regions, official reports said Monday.
Rwanda has unveiled a mega methane gas power plant, the Kivu-Watt Gas Power project, which is expected to produce 100 megawatts (MW) from Lake Kivu in Western Province, a methane-rich water body.
China Minsheng New Energy Investment, the solar and wind power unit of Shanghai-based private equity firm China Minsheng Investment, aims to boost its solar farms' installed capacity more than sevenfold this year despite grid capacity bottlenecks that have limited generation growth in some regions.
North Korea's ruling Workers' Party will on Friday (May 6) open its biggest meeting in more than three decades, with the focus on the course Kim Jong Un will chart for the isolated nation.
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