On June 21, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Japanese ODA loan agreement with the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic in the capital of Laos, Vientiane, to provide up to 5.545 billion yen for the Nam Ngum 1 Hydropower Station Expansion Project. This project will aim to increase generation capacity to meet the peak power demand of the capital region by adding an extra ...

Japan's tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear complex has suffered another radioactive water leak, its operator said Friday, the latest in a series of incidents at the crippled plant. About 360 litres (95 gallons) of tainted water leaked from a desalination unit although it did not escape from the complex, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said. The desalination unit removes salt from tainted seawater used to cool ...

Indonesia and Malaysia would cooperate to develop a coal-fired power plant in Sumatra to meet the needs of electricity in the two countries. "The cooperation agreement was signed by the two countries` electricity companies last year," Energy Minister Jero Wacik said after opening an ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting here on Monday. The plant would have a capacity of 2,000 MW, 1,000 of which would be used to me ...

A small Canadian energy company may soon be about to install thorium-fuelled nuclear reactors in Indonesia and Chile, in order to generate energy for the grid, or for desalination plants. The world currently has 435 commercial nuclear power plants, all of which run off uranium, but thorium is gathering support to replace uranium as a nuclear fuel, for several reasons. Thorium is much safer than uranium, bei ...

Binchuan County in Yunnan, China, recently committed to 118MW of solar PV projects that will be operational by the end of 2015. Clenergy, the solar park solution provider, co-operates with its strategic partner CGN Solar Energy, China's leading solar power provider, on an investment and development agreement with Binchuan County. The agreement comes on the heels of a 300MW project agreement with the city of ...

A Chinese Company is coming up with a 50 MW wind energy project in Gharo. This was stated by Vice-President of the HydroChina International Engineering Company Limited, Wang Youngqiang, on Monday. He said that the cost of the project has been estimated at dollars 120 million. Wang who is on a visit to Pakistan, said that the project had been initiated by HydroChina Dawood Power Limited (HDPPL), a jointly in ...

Engineers working on the Xiajiang Hydropower Project have designed a special "fish lane" to prevent migration patterns being affected by a dam on the Ganjiang River. According to the plan, a 3-meter-deep open-air zigzag channel stretching 815 meters will be built into the dam, 155 km from Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province. The zigzag design will reduce the gradient and water velocity, making it easi ...

A 110 MW hydropower project has successfully begun operation in the east district of Sikkim in India. Power generation technology company Alstom has released a statement in which they report the successful synchronization and full load of two 55 MW units at the Chuzachen hydropower plant on April 24, 2013. The two units were officially handed over to Gati Infrastructure who declared the start of commercial ...

Emcore Corp., a maker of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for fiber optics and solar power, will make and test high-efficiency multijunction solar-cell assemblies for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) under a $22 million supply contract announced on June 20th. The assemblies will be used in ISRO’s commercial geostationary telecommunications and scientific Earth observation ...

Facing punitive tariffs in the EU, Chinese solar panel makers are eagerly looking to African markets and the state-owned Jiangxi Corporation is helping to coordinate a $140 million solar power station in Garissa, Kenya, as a base of operation. Chinese solar panel makers will supply most of the $140 million needed to build a solar power station in Garissa, Kenya, according to Xinhuanet, the information servi ...