GreenergyDaily
Jul. 19, 2024
1. The Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant in S China's Guangdong, the first large-scale commercial nuclear power plant in the Chinese mainland, has provided nearly 433.5 billion kWh of electricity as of June 2024 since it started commercial operation in 1994, its operator said Thursday.
2. Chinese wind turbine makers this month clinched their first order in Germany, as they build momentum in the European market and add to concern in the EU industry that it faces an existential threat. Tensions are high between Beijing and Brussels, the world's two biggest wind markets, as the European Commission, the EU executive, has launched an investigation into whether Chinese players enjoy unfair subsidies.
3. The wind turbine boasting the world's largest single-unit capacity of 18 MW has begun power generation in NE China's Liaoning, expected to yield 74 mln kWh of green power a year to meet the annual demand of 40,000 households, equivalent to cutting 61,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
4. The Hong Kong SAR government on Thursday announced the successful offering of 25 billion Hong Kong dollars ($3.2 billion) worth of green bonds denominated in renminbi (RMB), US dollar, and euro.
5. Chinese researchers have overcome efficiency and power issues to create a micro aerial vehicle, only weighing 4.21g, propelled by an electrostatic motor and powered by incredibly light solar panels, according to a paper published in Nature on Thursday.
6. China's first self-developed 14,000-cbm river-sea LNG vessel was completed and delivered today, CCTV reported. Built by Chinese shipbuilder CSSC's unit Hudong-Zhonghua, the ship will work along the Yangtze River.
7. The Chinese yuan remained the world's fourth most active currency, Swift said yesterday. The yuan’s share of global currency transactions nearly doubled to 4.6% in June from November 2022.
8. A research group including scientists from Chinese module maker Longi has developed an undoped monocrystalline heterojunction cell that uses the promising MXene compound for the hole transport layer. The experimental device achieved an efficiency of 12.2% and was able to retain around 86% of its initial efficiency after 105-day exposure in ambient environment.
9. China's Honghua Group, a leading global land drilling rig manufacturer under the Dongfang Electric Corporation, signed a contract with a large drilling company in the Middle East to deliver several sets of 3000HP artificial island cluster wells drilling rigs, with a total value of 1.5 billion yuan ($206.7 million) on July 16.
10. Offshore Oil Engineering has scored a USD523 million engineering, procurement and construction contract to build the fourth phase of a offshore natural gas project in Myanmar for South Korean steelmaker Posco International, the engineering firm under oil giant China National Offshore Oil Corporation said yesterday.
