Britain’s reliance on coal for electricity is set to end, over 140 years after it opened the world’s first coal-fired power station in London in 1882

Zap Energy claims its approach would be capable of delivering limitless clean power at a fraction of the cost and complexity of competitors

Analysts fear China's renewable power generators may have to shoulder the costs of keeping under-utilised and loss-making coal power plants humming

The outage hit schools, hospitals, and factories in many cities across the country and shows the sorry state of the country's power system

AES Corporation plans to build a 4,000 megawatt (MW) wind farm off Vietnam's central province of Binh Thuan, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said

Experts say China's Emissions Trading Scheme has had limited impact, as its design is flawed and Beijing is focused on generating more power. Fraud by market players was also a big concern

The company said this would lift its total installed capacity to 71.8 million kilowatts from 45.6 million kilowatts, an increase of 57%.

Consumers in Tokyo were asked to conserve power as the Japanese capital was hit by the fourth day of a heatwave, which has led to people dying of heatstroke and others being treated in hospitals

Japan warns that the electricity supply in Tokyo will be strained as heat increases in the capital. Officials have called for people to be conservative in their use of power

Criticism has grown following the government's selection in late December of three consortia all led by Mitsubishi Corporation to operate three projects

China's coal industry has called for producers to make emergency supply guarantee plans, state media reported, and said production should be ramped up to prevent outages

The axing of the proposed Matarbari-2 plant in Bangladesh came in response to international and domestic criticism of Japan's funding of coal-fired power