GreenergyDaily
Sep. 4, 2024
1. Workers in Yuyao City, east China's Zhejiang Province, are installing solar panels above the water's surface to build a solar-fishery farm. Integrating the photovoltaic power with aquaculture has greatly contributed to the region's green development.
2. The daily output of crude oil in Bohai Oilfield, China's largest offshore crude oil production base, has exceeded 100,000 tonnes, a record high in the oilfield's nearly 60-year history, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation said on Tuesday.
3. China will launch an anti-discrimination investigation into Canada's tariff hikes on electric vehicles as well as steel and aluminum products imported from China, the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday. China will also launch anti-dumping investigations into rapeseed imports and certain Canadian chemical products, a spokesperson of the ministry said in an online statement.
4. Automaker Volvo Cars said on Wednesday it will deliver its EX90 SUV to the first customers before the end of this month after it had experienced extensive delays. The company was shipping the flagship vehicle to retailers in the U.S. and Europe and will ramp up deliveries, including to more markets, in the fourth quarter of this year and the first quarter of 2025, it said in a statement.
5. Chinese electrolyser manufacturer Hygreen Energy said on Tuesday it and its partners would invest more than 2 billion euros ($2.21 billion) in green hydrogen projects in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. The plans include a new plant to produce electrolysers. The electrolyser production factory will have a capacity of up to 5 gigawatts, depending on demand in Europe.
6. China's 1st large LNG dual-fuel trailing suction dredger "XIN HAI XUN" has completed all sea trial tasks and is set to start service in mid-Sept. The 155.7-m-long dredger can cut 90% of NOx and 20% of CO2 emissions when operating on LNG and features AI operation capabilities.
7. The inventories of Chinese car dealerships decreased last month, showing an improvement in the industrial sentiment. The Vehicle Inventory Alert Index for Chinese car dealers was 56.2 percent in August, down 0.7 point from a year earlier and 3.2 points from July, according to the latest statistics by the China Automobile Dealers Association.
8. China imported about 70,000 vehicles in July, up 15% from June and 6.3% from a year earlier, according to the CAAM. In the first seven months of the year, the country imported a total of 402,000 vehicles, down 2.5% from the same period last year.
9. Xpeng Aeroht, the flying car subsidiary of Chinese new energy vehicle startup Xpeng Motors, will deliver more than 10,000 units per year by 2026, likely cutting annual costs by 15 to 20 percent, according to its president.
10. China's retail sales of NEVs reached a record 1.015 million units in August, surpassing the 1 million mark for the first time ever, with the penetration rate rising to a record 53.14 percent, according to preliminary data from the CPCA.
