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Company release
Toshiba posted a wider-than-forecast operating loss after the troubled electronics conglomerate wrote down the value of its Westinghouse power unit.
Bloomberg
Company release
On 15th April, GCL System Integration Technology (GCL-SI) signed an agreement with Australia One Stop Warehouse OSW) that GCL-SI owns a 51% stake of OSW. Both have also come to an agreement in sales distribution, strategic development and future business planning, etc.
Company release
Mitsubishi Motors tumble after the carmaker warns of misconduct in fuel economy tests.
BBC News
Suntech has announced to cooperate with the new government in Colombo, the biggest city of Sri Lanka. Suntech will provide 378 pieces of polycrystalline solar modules for a roof-top system.
Company release
The laptops-to-nuclear conglomerate said it had overstated past profits by JPY5.8 billion (US$51.30 million) on a pretax basis due to seven new accounting errors, on top of the 224.8 billion in overstated profits it has already announced.
Reuters
Panasonic will cut 50 jobs in April at a factory that makes solar ingots in Oregon amid slowing demand for photovoltaic panels in Japan.
Bloomberg
Toshiba said it would record the biggest annual loss in its 140-year-old history as the firm wrote down the book value of several units, including energy and infrastructure, while restructuring costs ballooned.
Wall Street Journal
China's economy grew by 6.9% in 2015, compared with 7.3% a year earlier, marking its slowest growth in a quarter of a century.
BBC News
The consumer electronics company says it plans to spend up to US$1.6 billion on an advanced battery factoryan with electric-car maker Tesla Motors.
The Wall Street Journal
A landmark deal to curb global warming dented shares of fossil fuel companies on Monday and lifted renewable energy stocks, although some price swings were muted by the non-binding nature of the pact.
Fortune
With the ink barely dry on a landmark climate accord, nations now face an even more daunting challenge: how to get their industries to go along.
New York Times
At the Paris climate summit earlier this week, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pledged to "de-carbonize" his economy. But back home, Spain's biggest renewable energy company is on the verge of becoming the country's biggest-ever bankruptcy.
npr
There has been a rapid decline in the costs of solar and wind power, to such an extent that both technologies are now cheaper than nuclear or coal. This development will radically transform global electricity generation networks.
Quartz
Denmark and the island of Samso is the "Go To" destination for the world to learn about the successful transition to the low-carbon economy.
Huffington Post
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates unveiled plans Monday by an international coalition to invest billions of dollars in clean-energy projects to combat global warming.
USA Today
Subsidaries of China-based polysilicon and PV module manufacturer LDK Solar have been forced into bankruptcy proceedings in China only shortly after the parent company, formerly listed in the US, exited bankruptcy proceedings of its own.
PV-Tech
Alternative energy is by far the fastest growing segment of the energy industry today. Wind and solar alone account for over half of the new electricity capacity installed in the U.S. today, and they're growing domestically and around the world.
Motley Fool
World Energy Outlook 2015 predicts Africa could be the first to power economic growth with renewable energy while India becomes one of the world's biggest energy consumers.
Guardian
Treasury unexpectedly axes incentive for building new renewable energy sources, on top of previously announced subsidy cuts
Guardian
Renewables are powering a rare bright spot in the energy industry, with record job hiring in solar, wind and hydro partly offsetting the biggest round of job losses in the oil and gas sector in almost two decades.
Reuters
Adding to its long list of forward thinking initiatives, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has made a considerable effort to make its energy resources green. The company owns at least 60 megawatts of solar plants built by SunPower (NASDAQ:SPWR), is contracted with First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) to buy $848 million of solar electricity over 25 years, and is now committing to a plan to build two gigawats of renewable energy in China.
Motley Fool
Renewables are powering a rare bright spot in the energy industry, with record job hiring in solar, wind and hydro partly offsetting the biggest round of job losses in the oil and gas sector in almost two decades.
Reuters
Apple is cleaning up its manufacturing operations in China to reduce the air pollution caused by the factories that have assembled hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads during the past eight years.
ABC News
Environmental regulations on America's energy sector may face a rebuke from the Supreme Court. It heard oral arguments Wednesday regarding encroachment on state's rights to regulate the retail energy market.
Daily Caller
Chinese tycoons Liang Wengen and Nan Cunhui plan to pour $5 billion into India's renewable power sector as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a major expansion of clean energy in one of the world's biggest polluters.
Finacial Times
Country is on a path to achieving the hard task in renewables while flunking the simple one in coal.
Finacial Times
The Indian Government is looking to reduce the regulatory hurdles in achieving their highly ambitious renewable energy capacity addition targets.
Cleantechnica
Only a few months ago, it seemed that the renewable energy sector could do little wrong: Stock prices were soaring and money was pouring in as investors flocked to get in on the action.
NY Times News Service (via Taipei Times)
Calling for extension of renewable-energy tax incentives is strange given the avian and bat carnage from windmills.
Wall Street Journal
Africa should learn from South Africa's renewable energy drive, which has led to a sharp drop in green power prices thanks to benign regulation and infrastructure investment, industry players said on Tuesday.
India Infoline
The current subsidy system for on-shore wind energy in Northern Ireland is set to end next April, a year earlier than planned.
BBC News
Toshiba Corp (6502.T) may lay off staff in its underperforming home appliances, TV and PC businesses and seek a partner for its nuclear operations to overhaul the company after a $1.3 billion accounting scandal, its chief executive said on Thursday.
Reuters
A green energy company which made six million nuisance calls has been handed a record 瞿200,000 fine.
telegraph.com.uk (USE Daily Telegraph (UK))
One of the leading lawyers in the renewable power sector has criticised the UK and Welsh governments for their approaches to green energy.
BBC News
With the enactment of the Clean Power Plan, more renewables will be coming on line. But will most of those green electrons move along traditional networks or localized microgrids that service enclosed campuses?
Forbes
The White House's energy plan likely won't impact natural gas, but clean energy stocks may benefit.
USA Market News
Conservative cuts to wind and solar energy lack "any rationale or clear intent", EY warns as UK slips down investor rankings
telegraph.com.uk (USE Daily Telegraph (UK))
As the markets are recovering from the incredible volatility in August, stocks that were hit hard during this dip included those in alternative energy. However, one key analyst sees a buying opportunity for this segment. A new Oppenheimer report details where the firm thinks these companies are and what direction they stand to go.
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