Business / Green Companies

Hertz plugging electric vehicle rental program

[2011-08-25 11:47]

Global vehicle rental giant Hertz Corp announced plans on Wednesday for an electric-vehicle (EV) rental business in China, the first overseas car rental company to offer such services in the country.

When saving energy became a fashion

[2011-08-22 09:46]

High Fashion (China) Co Ltd has been responding to the government's call to conserve energy in the heavily industrialized Zhejiang province.

Firms ink wind farm deal

[2011-08-19 14:25]

China Wind Power Int'l Corp said it signed an engineering contract with China Ming Yang Wind Power Ltd for the construction of its wind farm project .

Chinese PV makers supply to US solar farm

[2011-08-16 11:08]

Two Chinese photovoltaic manufacturers, Astronergy and ENN Solar, will supply solar panels for the largest silicon thin-film project in the United States.

Ascent Solar to sell stake, eyes China growth

[2011-08-16 09:45]

US photovoltaic cell maker Ascent Solar Technologies Inc said it would sell a fifth of its shares to China's TFG Radiant Group and the two parties plan to set up manufacturing facilities in east Asia.

CGNPG may rebid for Kalahari

[2011-08-12 13:36]

China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group Co may bid again for Kalahari Minerals Plc after withdrawing an offer in May.

LDK Solar to supply PV modules for US power project

[2011-08-05 17:47]

LDK Solar Co Ltd said it had signed an agreement with US's Advanced Solar Products to supply 58,803 photovoltaic (PV) modules for a solar power project in the New Jersey campus of the McGraw-Hill Companies.

Racing for pole position on the 'green' vehicle front

[2011-08-01 09:55]

In July, 94 student teams from 12 countries all over Asia hit the tracks of the Sepang International Circuit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sinohydro $2.5b IPO plan approved

[2011-08-01 09:09]

China's securities regulator on Friday approved a plan by Sinohydro Group Ltd to raise more than $2.5 billion in what could be Chinese mainland's biggest initial public offering (IPO) this year.

BYD to provide electric cars for Universiade

[2011-07-28 15:36]

BYD Auto is to provide 200 pure electric buses and 300 pure electric taxis for the upcoming 26th Universiade.

China Suntien sees H1 profit up

[2011-07-18 13:56]

China Suntien Green Energy Corp, a distributor of natural gas and an operator of wind farms, said it expects net profit for the six months ended June to increase by more than 100 percent from the same period of last year.

LDK Solar to buy back shares

[2011-06-29 11:28]

LDK Solar Co Ltd announced on Monday that it plans to repurchase up to $110 million of its American Depository Shares (ADSs) in the open market or through privately negotiated transactions.

Hanergy to gamble $15b on solar power niche

[2011-06-23 10:42]

For any company, pouring 100 billion yuan ($15.47 billion) into a fledging industry could be risky, according to Li Hejun, president of Hanergy Holding Group Ltd, a private Chinese power generator that is betting on a niche technology in solar cells.

Wind turbine makers in China captivated

[2011-06-20 15:47]

The country's leading wind turbine makers are vying with each other to push forward big-capacity wind turbines in a bid to win a slice of China's offshore wind power development.

Chinese wind turbines tested in Denmark

[2011-06-08 16:06]

Chinese Envision Energy is to manufacture and test a new offshore wind turbine prototype developed in Denmark, just one year after the Chinese wind energy company opened a Global Innovation Centre in Denmark in March 2010.

ABB, Schneider bid for China cleantech firm

[2011-06-07 15:59]

Engineering companies ABB Ltd and Schneider Electric are among second-round bidders for a private equity-owned China cleantech asset that could fetch as much as $700 million, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

SICP: An early environmental partnership

[2011-06-02 08:01]

Begun in 2000, the Sino-Italian Cooperation Program for the Environmental Protection (SICP) has become an international model of a partnership effective in addressing the key solutions for the sustainable development and in leveraging public and private resources.

Airbus gives wings to green project

[2011-05-30 14:53]

Airbus donated 170,000 yuan ($26,163) this month to build a school garden in an impoverished region in Yunnan as part of the United Nation's Green Wave campaign aimed at raising awareness of the need to protect nature.

Goldwind signs deals in US

[2011-05-24 16:45]

Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology Co Ltd (Goldwind), a leading Chinese wind turbine maker, announced here Tuesday that it had signed deals with four large international component suppliers, including three in the United States.

Gamesa benefits from China's wind policy

[2011-05-24 10:09]

About 350 kilometers from Madrid, the capital of Spain, Europe's second-largest wind power country, the world's largest onshore wind turbine has been in operation for two years.

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