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sectors, NTT aims to sell power directly to
customers. Most of the company’s 7,300
telephone exchanges nationwide will be used
as “mini generators” and be equipped with
storage batteries for renewable energy.
Electricity can then be sent to customers in
factories and offices nearby through existing
grids or NTT’s own lines, the paper said.
Meanwhile, NTT is to work together
with Mitsubishi Corporation to “study
cooperation” in renewables, energy
management using electric vehicles and
battery energy storage.
The two will look at joint investment
in renewable energy projects in Japan and National Energy Administration boosted Utom today said that this move was part of
overseas, as well as investigation into the subsidy-eligible solar projects over the 23GW the Sarawak government’s efforts to fulfill
possibility of supplying energy from those approved last year. The increase comes even its commitment of achieving full electricity
projects to NTT Group companies. as China has been pushing subsidy-free solar coverage statewide by 2025.
They will also aim to develop a microgrid projects to allow such clean energy to directly “We will continue to do our utmost best
platform for new, decentralised energy compete with coal power. to achieve the targeted 97 per cent rural
businesses that incorporates electric vehicles The projects, located in 15 regions, include electrification coverage rate in the coming
(EVs) and storage batteries. 25.6GW of utility-scale ground-mounted months and full coverage by 2025 to ensure
The two will aim to use Mitsubishi and plants, with the rest for smaller projects at that no one is left in the dark (without
NTT Anode’s network to develop unique industrial and commercial sites, the NEA electricity)”, he said in a statement today.
energy solutions. said in a statement dated June 23 and posted The federal government awarded these
Leveraging Mitsubishi’s existing business online Sunday. projects to a third-party contractor, Citra
lines, including energy storage for industrial The scale is “within expectations” after Alti Sdn Bhd, to supply power to the villages
and vehicle use, with NTT Anode’s the nation announced earlier this year it and longhouses by 2017 but all works were
proprietary ICT and direct-current (DC) will allocate RMB1bn ($141mn) of financial halted when the company faced difficulties to
technologies, the pair want to combine their support for large solar projects, according complete them.
efforts and optimise the use of distributed to Jonathan Luan, a Beijing-based analyst “Out of the total, 10 projects which affected
energy sources “such as storage batteries at BloombergNEF. He expects China to add 26 villages and 633 households were taken
and power generation facilities driven by about 37GW of solar power in 2020, including over by the state government and (state-
renewables,” Mitsubishi said. some zero-subsidy projects and plants that owned power utility company) Sarawak
In the offshore wind sector, NTT is looking were approved but not commissioned last Energy Berhad at the end of 2019,” he said.
take advantage of the government’s launch last year. He said the Sarawak government was
week of a series of offshore capacity auctions Projects that fail to meet a proposed in the process of taking over the remaining
designed to spur large-scale development. deadline for grid connection by the end of 13 projects involving 18 villagers and 358
Japan’s major utilities and international the year will have their power prices cut by households from the company and recovery
offshore developers such as Orsted have all so RMB0.0001 per kV for every quarter that they works had already started.
far shown interest. are overdue, the NEA said. Subsidies will be
Japan’s offshore wind sector is set to boom canceled for projects that are not completed
after parliament in 2019 passed legislation to and connected to the grid two quarters after
hold the first offshore tenders in 2020. the proposed deadline. HYBRID
The government has set a 10GW combined
onshore and offshore goal for 2030. B.Grimm leases state land
for 95MW Thai hybrid power
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
Sarawak govt steps in to project
SOL AR
China boosts subsidy- revive 23 delayed Rural B.Grimm Power on June 26 signed a lease
contract for state land in Thailand’s Rayong
eligible solar projects by Electrification Scheme Province on which it will build a 95MW
hybrid natural gas and solar power facility.
13% in 2020 projects Thailand, the company said it has signed
In a statement to the Stock Exchange of

China, the world’s biggest solar market, plans Sarawak Utilities Ministry has stepped in to the contract with the Ministry of Finance’s
to subsidise 434 photovoltaic power projects revive all 23 Rural Electrification Scheme Eastern Economic Corridor office for the land
with a combined capacity of almost 26GW of (RES) projects located mainly in the northern in Ban Chang District.
this year, Bloomberg reported. region of the state which are significantly B.Grimm will build a facility which will
Shares of solar equipment manufacturers behind schedule. combine a system running on natural gas with
gained as the announcement from the Its minister, Datuk Seri Dr Stephen Rundi photovoltaic (PV) panels. The project will also

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