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Jul 02, 2021 08:16 AMENERGY INSIDER Energy Insider: Longyuan Power Inks Carbon Trading Deal in South Africa; Tongwei Plans $2.2 Billion High-Purity Silicon Project In today’s Caixin energy news wrap: Chinese offshore drilling rig giant gets $129 million SOE cash injection; Tongwei plans to invest $2.2 billion in high-purity silicon project; a power complex will be built in Huizhou; and China develops new power generation using hot dry rock. Longyuan Power inks $1.1 million overseas carbon trading deal The South Africa branch of China Longyuan Power Group Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of state-own...

The auction closed at the end of December 2020. This was Japan’s first offshore wind auction since the new Renewable Sea Area Utilization Law came into power in April 2019. The area off Goto was one of the eleven zones identified by the two ministries and the Port Authority of Japan as potentially suitable for the development of offshore wind farms. The ongoing auction for the development of fixed-bottom projects in the two areas off Akita and one off Chiba has already attracted much more attention, including the bids from the consortium of Ørsted, Japan Wind Development Co. (JWD), and E...

Published June 7, 2021, 6:00 AM ERC hints ‘pricing play’ The country’s giant power firms have been tagged as the culprits in last week’s rotational brownouts with “forced outages’ of their power plants going beyond the time allowance prescribed by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC). In a Congressional hearing on Friday, ERC chairperson Agnes T. Devanadera further hinted of “pricing play” as the secondary price cap in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) had been hit 418 times this year. A ‘play’ in the market angle is also being scrutinized by the regulatory bo...

March 8, 2021, by Adrijana Buljan Japanese utility JERA has submitted a Primary Environmental Impact Consideration Document for a new offshore wind project to Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI). The project site is located in the waters off the city of Tsugaru and the town of Ajigasawa in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, where JERA plans to install up to 63 wind turbines. According to the company, the project will have a maximum generation capacity of 600 MW. The document filed to the METI on 8 March summarises the results of deliberations co...

Japan's Electric Power Development (J-Power) said on Friday it plans to cut CO2 emissions by 40% by 2030 by shutting old coal-fired power plants and upgrading some existing plants with advanced technology such as gasification.