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EVE to Add More Production Capacity at Its Operation in Jingmen – EQ Mag

February 13, 2023 Anand Gupta

Major Chinese battery supplier EVE announced that its subsidiary EVE Power and the administrative committee of Jingmen Hi-Tech Industrial Park signed an agreement for setting up new battery production lines. Under the agreement, EVE will invest around RMB 10.8 billion to set up 60GWh per year of production capacity for Li-ion batteries and other supporting […]

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Australian Research Team Develops a Perovskite-Silicon Solar Cell with 30.3% Efficiency that Will Likely Be Commercialized in 2026 – EQ Mag

February 11, 2023 Anand Gupta

Australia has long had high expectations of solar energy and set a goal to reduce the cost of solar energy to AUD 0.30 per installed watt by 2030 along with a 30% solar-cell efficiency. The chance of achieving this goal has become high as The Australian National University (ANU) proposed a tandem cell with an […]

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Jingneng Will Build 1GW PV Project in Puning – EQ Mag

February 9, 2023 Anand Gupta

A subsidiary of Beijing Jingneng Clean Energy Co. Ltd. and China Sun Fund Management Ltd. will cooperate with the government of Puning to build a 1GW PV project. The signing of the investment framework agreement was announced on January 30 and reported first by Chinese media outlets. Puning is a county-level city in China’s Guangdong […]

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Asia set to use half of world’s electricity by 2025, new report says – EQ Mag

February 9, 2023 Anand Gupta

BERLIN : Asia will for the first time use half of the world’s electricity by 2025, even as Africa continues to consume far less than its share of the global population, according to a new forecast released Wednesday by the International Energy Agency. Much of Asia’s electricity use will be in China, a nation of […]

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Sustainable Trade and Investment Key to Asia and Pacific’s Green Future – EQ Mag

February 7, 2023 Anand Gupta

SINGAPORE : Greener trade and investment is crucial to tackling climate change in Asia and the Pacific and will require governments in the region to work together more closely, according to a new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). While trade and investment have fueled remarkable economic growth in Asia in recent decades, it […]

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Australia’s Recharge to buy failed EV battery startup Britishvolt – EQ Mag

February 7, 2023 Anand Gupta

Australia’s Recharge Industries was on Monday selected as the preferred bidder to buy Britishvolt, the collapsed UK startup which had struggled to fund a major electric vehicle battery factory in northern England. The deal, which comes just three weeks after Britishvolt fell into administration, could help revive Britain’s ambitions of building a home-grown EV battery […]

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ADB Appoints Safdar Parvez as Country Director in PRC – EQ Mag

January 30, 2023 Anand Gupta

MANILA, PHILIPPINES : The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed Safdar Parvez as its Country Director for the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Mr. Parvez has arrived in Beijing following his appointment last month. As Country Director, he will oversee ADB’s operations in the PRC, including implementation of the country partnership strategy (CPS) that prioritizes […]

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Kaijin Starts Construction on Second Phase of Its Anode Production Base in Jiangsu

January 28, 2023 Anand Gupta

On January 1, 2023, Jiangsu Kaijin New Energy Technology held a ceremony to mark start of construction for the second phase of its integrated anode production base in Jiangsu. The base is located in New Huanghe District of Yancheng, a prefecture-level city in China’s Jiangsu Province. It is set to comprise 200,000 tons per year […]

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ADB Ranks Highly in New Development Finance Institutions Transparency Index – EQ Mag

January 28, 2023 Anand Gupta

MANILA, PHILIPPINES : The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been rated the most transparent development finance institution (DFI) for sovereign operations and in the top three for private sector operations in a newly launched DFI Transparency Index published by British nongovernment organization Publish What You Fund. “Transparency and accountability are at the heart of ADB’s […]

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Zhuhai Releases Its Plan for Adding 3.7GW PV Generation Capacity in 2022-2025 Period – EQ Mag

January 25, 2023 Anand Gupta

In early January, the Development and Reform Bureau of Zhuhai released a notice on the development of PV generation in the city for the 2022-2025 period. Zhuhai is a well-known urban center located in the Pearl River Delta of China’s Guangdong Province. According to the notice, the city aims to increase its installed PV generation […]