Praxair Electronics has won three new contracts with solar customers in China.

According to a representative from the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, China's National Energy Administration is formulating an plan to revitalize the country's new energy industry and speed up its development.
Wu Zhonghu, a researcher from ERI, has disclosed to the Chinese media that unlike the 11th Five-year Plan, [...]

According to the website of the National Development and Reform Commission, China has approved four renewable energy projects in the past two months.
Of the four projects, two are said to be hydro-electric facilities with capacities of up to a 1,000 megawatts, and the rest are wind power plants with capacities of 100 megawatts each. The [...]

U.S. based energy efficiency solutions provider Ecos has become a partner in the China-U.S. Energy Efficiency Alliance, which aims to reduce the number of power plants required to meet China's growing electricity consumption with concomitant savings in CO2 emissions.

According to a representative from the international supermarket chain Metro, the company's two outlets in Wuhan will stop selling plastic shopping bags from 2009, making Metro the first plastic-free supermarket in the city.

Based on a successful experiment in launching sustainable development areas over the last 22 years, China has set up 13 national advanced sustainable development demonstration zones.

China's Jiangsu Province will spend more than CNY58.3 billion to treat the pollution of Taihu Lake according to a general plan initiated by National Development and Reform Commission and the relevent departments.

The Nordic Environment Finance Corporation announced that its Carbon Fund has signed Agreements to procure emission reductions from a wind energy project in Jiangsu province, and a small hydro-electric project in southwest China. The projects will be implemented under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. These are NEFCO's first projects … Read More>>

Huaneng Power International, has announced that the project for a 1,000MW domestic ultra-supercritical coal-fired generating unit at Huaneng Jinling Power Plant Phase II has recently been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission.

Jiangsu Lee & Man (Changshu) Paper Manufacturing Limited has reportedly been ordered to stop production by officials from the Ministry of Environmental Protection because of illegal discharges into the Changjiang River.