Project

Australia's Pacific Hydro closes $81.5m financing for 100MW solar farm

The project is expected to be completed in mid-2019 and comprise 400,000 PV modules.

Tohoku Electric to decommission Onagawa-1 nuclear reactor

Safety upgrades for the reactor were too expensive, it said.

Malaysia kills 4 IPPs amidst tariff saving efforts

One of the IPPs is a 700MW gas power plant held by Malakoff and TNB.

ARENA funds renewable hydrogen project for Sydney grid

It injected $5.32m into gas distributor Jemena for the construction of an electrolyser.

Sembcorp Marine seals two renewable energy contracts worth over $200m

It will engineer and construct projects for Denmark’s Ørsted Wind Power and Norway’s Norled AS.

Is the proposed Khurja coal power plant in India overpriced?

A “realistic” tariff for the plant is at 7.8 cents/kWh even if renewable tariffs are available at 4.1 cents/kWh.

Japanese-led consortium loans $1.31b to Indonesian gas-to-energy project

The project will yield a 1,760MW gas-fired plant and an LNG FSRU unit to fuel it.

Shikoku Electric Power eyes 40-year decommissioning for Ikata-2 nuclear reactor

Restarting was considered uneconomical due to the scale and costs of required changes.

Green Climate Fund's $1b investment in renewables includes projects in India and Indonesia

About $100m will go to an Indonesian geothermal project with World Bank.

Consortium with Medco Group invests $384.10m in embattled Hyflux

The consortium will subscribe for 60% of issue share capital in Hyflux and extend a loan of S$130m.

Sembcorp fires up 225MW gas-fired plant in Myanmar

It is expected to generate 1,500GWh of power and support the power needs of 5.3 million people.

1,157MWe Haiyan-2 nuclear unit gets linked to Chinese grid

It is expected to begin commercial operation in early 2019.

NTPC takes 160MW of solar capacities in 500MW solar tender

It won 140MW capacity with a tariff of 4.3 cents/kWh.

Japanese consortium eyes plant that manages 500 batteries over the internet

This would allow power to be drawn from emergency batteries during a crisis.

Taiwan injects $87.32m in solar developers' merger

Government-owned agencies will take seats in the company’s board.