South China Morning Post — 23 May 2011 Hong Kong manufacturers in the Pearl River Delta are battling to maintain operations in the face of power shortages which are disrupting production and pushing up costs. Some have complained of power cuts of up to three days a week in Shenzhen and of two days in [...]
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Mainland dams accused of carbon credit scams
Last updated: April 7, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post Environmental lobby group International Rivers has condemned the emergence of trade in fake carbon credits and says the biggest source is hydroelectric power projects on the mainland. Under what is known as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, industrialised countries can support [...]
Blackout woes for plants in Dongguan
Last updated: April 7, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post Severe drought results in power rationing The devastating drought in the southwest is forcing once-a-week blackouts at Dongguan factories due to power shortages from the nation’s hydroelectric dams. Since April 1, Hong Kong manufacturers say power supplies have been suspended one day each week in [...]
Companies Look For Short Payback Period When Investing In Green Projects
Eric Ng – SCMP | Updated on Oct 27, 2008 Energy conservation and pollution reduction are industries that have been around for decades, but their fastest growth could well lie ahead given the mainland’s status as the world’s factory and rising pressure for it to get its act together on sustainable development. Manufacturers can either [...]
Gains From Natural Gas Power Will Be Lost If Consumption Soars
Updated on Oct 03, 2008 – SCMP I refer to the article by Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau Tang-wah (“A cleaner, cheaper energy future for Hong Kong“, September 23). Replacing coal with natural gas for electricity generation is no doubt a great step towards controlling the sulfur dioxide (SO{-2}) emissions that are a significant [...]
CLP Targets “World’s Factory” With Energy Efficiency Business
Blueskieschina.com Written by James Ockenden – Aug 18, 2008 Hong Kong utility CLP Group has launched an energy efficiency and conservation consultancy targeting steel, cement, plastics, electronics, garment and toy factories in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong Province. Based on CLP’s active Hong Kong energy audit service, which typically cuts customers’ energy consumption by 10-20%, [...]
Energy Demands Too Big For State Control
Wang Xiangwei – Updated on Jun 09, 2008 – SCMP As the mainland focuses its attention and resources on providing disaster relief and planning the massive reconstruction effort in the aftermath of the deadly earthquake, another crisis looms on the horizon. While last month’s disaster in Sichuan and the crippling snowstorms in February were natural [...]
Coal Supply Woes Force Early Power Rationing
Pollution threat to Olympics as factories shift to costly diesel Denise Tsang – Updated on Jun 09, 2008 – SCMP Coal supply disruptions intensified by China’s recent earthquake have brought forward scheduled peak-power rationing in industrialised Guangdong province and raised power costs, according to manufacturers. In local production hubs such as Dongguan, a three-day-a-week compulsory [...]
Power Shortfall To Hit 10GW
Reuters in Beijing – Updated on Apr 22, 2008 The mainland’s power demand this year could outpace supply by as much as 10 gigawatts (GW), with temporary brownouts hitting parts of the south during the summer, State Electricity Regulatory Commission vice-chairman Wang Yeping said on Tuesday. Mainland power firms were building new power stations each [...]
Guangdong Chief Cites Bars To Growth
Fiona Tam – Updated on Mar 26, 2008 – SCMP Guangdong must clear eight obstacles to development before it can make further economic gains, Governor Huang Huahua told provincial officials at a government meeting on Monday. The eight obstacles mainly relate to regional co-operation, construction of railway and electricity networks, insurance for rural residents, industrial [...]