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The report, BNEF's 2030 Market Outlook, based on modelling of electricity market supply and demand, technology cost evolution and policy development in individual countries and regions, forecasts that Asia-Pacific will account for more than half of the 5TW of net new power capacity that will be added worldwide in the next decade and a half

Business slowed compared with the first six months of the year due to the following factors: (i) the impact, as expected, of delivery schedules in the submarine high-voltage business, (ii) lower demand from utilities companies, (iii) weak sales of copper wires, and, to a lesser extent, (iv) an unfavorable basis of comparison for the Industry division. South America suffered declining demand in the building and energy distribution sectors, and Australia saw a further erosion of business – notably for Utilities – which weighed on performance in the Asia-Pacific region as a whole after sales had stabilized during the first half of 2014. Overall, sales slowed considerably in July and August, but September saw a return to growth compared with the same month of 2013.

According to the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), industry accounts for approximately 42 per cent of the world's consumption of electricity, with around two-thirds of this used by electric motors. Given the need to reduce energy consumption, designers are starting to consider motors that are even more efficient than the units built to comply with current legislation.

Bishop & Associates projects the worldwide market for transportation cable assemblies to grow to $5.8 billion in 2012. The majority of the growth will be in China and Asia Pacific, where the expansion will be between 8%-12% year-over-year.

Nautilus was racing to be the first in the world to mine the sea floor. Now UK Seabed Resources, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, could take the lead. It has a licence to explore an area of the Pacific sea floor in international waters for minerals.

While the long-term outlook is positive thanks to a number of powerful trends in today's society, including urbanization in developing countries, growing requirements for interconnection and the development of electrical infrastructure, and the global expansion of renewable energies, the short‑term outlook is more problematic.We expect growth to remain lackluster in Europe (apart from for certain niche products), and the recovery in the U.S. markets is likely to stay muted. Two thirds of the forecast growth in our markets for the next two to three years will come from emerging countries.The Group’s exposure to Europe and the USA of almost 60% and the persistent slowdown in South America and the Asia-Pacific region (Australia), have weighed on the Group’s performance over the last 18 months, and this trend is set to continue during the rest of 2014. In view of this situation, Nexans now forecasts sales to decrease by around 4% on an organic basis in the third quarter of 2014, and growth to be flat for the year as a whole.

North America is the leading region for microgrids today, but the largest and fastest growing nanogrid markets are remote systems operating in the developing countries of Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa.

Nautilus Minerals has developed robotic technology for deep-sea mining in collaboration with the French company Technip. The company is planning to open the first deep-water mine in 2015. The Solwara 1 mine will be located 1600 metres below sea level. The company has found large deposits of copper and gold there. Solwara 1 is located in the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia, in Papua New Guinea.