GreenergyDaily
Jun. 21, 2024
1. China may impose anti-dumping duties on the European Union if investigation on the EU's pork and pork by-products confirms dumping, said He Yadong, the spokesperson of China's Ministry of Commerce, said on Thursday. The ministry announced on Monday that China will conduct an anti-dumping investigation on certain pork and pork by-products from the EU.
2. The world has enough solar power capacity to generate a fifth of its midday peak electricity needs on the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, up from 16% last year, a report by think tank Ember showed on Friday.
3. The penetration rate of new energy vehicles in China, a gauge of popularity, is expected to hit a new high of 49.1% in June, as the market continues to grow steadily amid intensifying competition, according to an industry survey.
4. China's first homegrown large multi-purpose service operation vessel was recently delivered in SE China's Fujian to support deep-sea wind power development. The 98-m-long vessel with an endurance of 10,000 nmi can carry 60 people and 2,500 tonnes of cable.
5. The Tianwan Nuclear Power Station Unit 7 and Unit 8 are under construction in Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu Province. With a capacity of 1.265 million kW, the two units are estimated to generate about 18.8 billion kWh of electricity every year upon operation.
6. Electric vehicle sales are surging in Southeast Asia, led by China's BYD and Vietnam's VinFast, eating into the internal combustion engine car market dominated by Japanese and Korean firms, Counterpoint Research said on Friday. EV sales in the region more than doubled in the January to March quarter from a year before, according to the research firm. Sales of ICE cars, meanwhile, slid by 7%.
7. Rolls-Royce, a British power generation maker, announced on June 19 a partnership with Chinese battery maker CATL to launch CATL's new TENER product line in the European Union and the United Kingdom.
8. The world's 2nd largest hydropower station Baihetan, located on the upper section of China's Yangtze River with a total installed capacity of 16 million kW, had generated over 120 billion kWh of green energy as of March 2024, equivalent to reducing CO2 emissions by over 98 million tonnes.
9. China's transport sector saw continued intelligent and green development by end-2023, a recent report showed: new energy vehicles took up 77.7% of public transport system; 18 automated container terminals built, 27 automated terminals under construction, both topping the world.
10. Shanghai Customs temporarily seized multiple containers suspected of intellectual property rights infringement based on IPR registration records, according to Chinese media outlet Xinhua Daily. Among the seized products were TOPCon HiKu 6 modules from Chinese-Canadian manufacturer Canadian Solar that were shipped to be shipped to Europe and valued at CNY 3.73 million, as well as TOPCon Tangra modules from Sunova Solar, which were being shipped to Latin America, valued at CNY 1.43 million.
