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25/01/2013

* Chinese engineers to repair Haryana power plant

Times of India: “Chinese engineers will repair the second unit of 300MW capacity of YamunaNagar power plant, which is non-functional since last year.

Map of India showing location of Haryana

Map of India showing location of Haryana (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Haryana power minister Ajay Yadav said the plant, which is based on Chinese technology, is expected to be functional by February-end after it is repaired.

Yadav said 15 engineers from China will come to Haryana by month-end to resolve the problem cropped up at Yamuna Nagar power plant.

Engineers will remain here till power plant start running properly, he added.

The power plants at Yamuna Nagar and Khader (Hisar) were fitted with Chinese machinery.

Ajay Singh Yadav said Yamunanagar thermal power plant started functioning in 2008-09 but last year the plant stopped generating power because of fault in Chinese rotor which could not be repaired in India.”

via Chinese engineers to repair Haryana power plant – The Times of India.

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03/05/2012

* Frustrated With China, General Electric Turns Its Eye to Australia

WSJ: “For General Electric Co., Australia is the new China.

The original version of General Electric's cir...

The original version of General Electric’s circular logo and trademark. The trademark application was filed on July 24, 1899, and registered on September 18, 1900 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The continent of 22 million people is set to generate more revenue for the industrial conglomerate this year than will the Middle Kingdom, with 1.3 billion. The shift stems in part from Chief Executive Jeff Immelts shuffling of the company’s business lines to emphasize energy. But it also reflects a significant rethinking of China’s value for GE, which, after years of missed targets and slow growth in the country, has turned its attention to resource-rich locations that have friendlier rules for investing and fewer national champions as rivals.

GE isn’t giving up on China, where its annual sales have hovered at around $5 billion for much of the past half-decade. But the company is betting that the price of energy and minerals will remain strong—and that GE will have an easier time breaking into other markets to sell compressors, locomotives and power generators in countries that produce oil, gas and iron ore. The new approach elevates Canada, Peru, Mongolia and Australia into the circle of growth prospects once dominated by Brazil, Russia, India and China.”

via Frustrated With China, General Electric Turns Its Eye to Australia – WSJ.com.

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28/02/2012

* Good news for the world – China aims to cut industrial energy consumption.

China Daily: “China aims to cut its energy consumption per unit of industrial value-added output by21 percent during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), the Ministry of Industry andInformation Technology said Monday.

China is expected to save the equivalent of 670 million tons of coal during the five years,according to the country’s industrial energy conservation plan for the 2011-2015 period postedon the ministry’s website.

The plan also sets detailed targets for cuts by several energy-intensive sectors. The steel,nonferrous, petrochemical and electronics industries are required to reduce their energy useper unit of value-added output by 18 percent from 2010.

The chemical engineering, building materials and textile sectors must cut their energyconsumption per unit of output by 20 percent, while the machinery industry should target a 22-percent fall in energy use per unit of output, according to the plan.

The government has adopted a slew of measures to promote energy savings and emissionreductions and to ease its increasing thirst for energy, including phasing out polluting industriesand building energy-saving buildings.”

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-02/27/content_14704395.htm

As I commented elsewhere, China seems to have decided that the Year of the Dragon (c2012) is the year it will crackdown on corruption, migrants’ and individual rights, pollution and other environmental issues.

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