Articles by CEN_com

Vietnam has been a Southeast Asia solar success story. It went from having barely any generation in 2018 to a quarter of its total installed capacity being solar – a 100-fold increase in two years. This rapid growth is mainly down to the Vietnamese government’s feed-in tariff which provides a guaranteed above-market price for renewable energy producers; other incentives signed off in 2017 in an attempt to pivot away from lagging fossil fuel projects; and cheaper solar […]

No so long ago the Western news media was full of stories of how China was “ramping up coal power” and claims that this was a threat to achieving the Paris Climate Agreement targets. The story was run by the Financial Times and the UK Government controlled BBC, among others. Of course, the media versions ignored detail in the report that the stories were based on, Out of Step – […]

Central Asia’s largest wind power project with a generating capacity of 100 MW was connected to the grid on 20 June 2021. The power project, with a total of 40 wind turbines, near the city of Zhanatas, Kazakhstan was built by a Chinese firm and is jointly owned by local company Visor Kazakhstan and China Power International Holding. The joint venture is responsible for the development, construction and operation of the […]

CGTN reported on 29 June 2021 that China will launch a voluntary fishing moratorium on the high seas from July this year to preserve squid resources in open waters, according to China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs which regulates fishing. From July 1 to September 30, the fishing ban will be observed in part of the high seas of the Southwest Atlantic Ocean outside the exclusive economic zones of […]