China Sunergy Co., Ltd. is a specialized solar cell and module manufacturer, who today announced that the Company had shipped 72KW multi-crystalline solar modules earlier this month to Carillion Construction Ltd, a UK-headquartered multinational company dedicated to sustainable and green energy projects. China Sunergy’s solar modules would be installed in a trial project of Emrill, in Dubai, United Arab Emi ...

India is set to invest US$84 million to build the first of 60 solar cities where much of the electricity will be provided by solar installations. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) said that Agartala, the capital of the Tripura state in northeast India, has been selected as the pilot for this scheme. MNRE is expected to bear 90% of the cost of transforming Tripura into a solar city with the bal ...

The World Bank has approved a US$449 million loan to Vietnam for a project aiming to streamline electricity distribution across the country and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The $800 million Distribution Efficiency Project is an effort to meet the objectives of Vietnam’s National Energy Development Strategy to 2020 by reducing investment needs in the power sector, strengthening energy security and respon ...

PLN is seeking interested bidders for funding the construction of a $200 million gas-fired power plant in Arun, Aceh. “The winner will be announced by early next year, so that the construction can start,” said PLN’s director for planning and risk management, Murtaqi Syamsuddin. The winner will provide the funding for the engineering, procurement and construction of the 200MW power plant project. PLN will su ...

Jhajjar Power Ltd., a unit of CLP Power India Ltd., is seeking 600,000 metric tons of steam coal for its 1,320 MW unit in northern India. The arm of Hong Kong-based CLP Holdings Ltd. seeks delivery of the fuel at its plant in Haryana for the year ending March 2013, according to the company’s tender notice. The company seeks coal with a gross calorific value of as much as 6,500 kilocalories a kilogram, total ...

Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang had approved the supplementary protocol and necessary documents to join the IAEA’s Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, leading the country closer to the development of their first nuclear power station. This was announced by Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Quan at the 56th annual session of the International Atomic Energy Agency general assembly ...

The State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China has issued a Notification on Grant of Patent Right to Aquaporin A/S's patent application titled Membrane For Filtering Of Water, the company announced on 11 September 2012. This is Aquaporin's first Chinese patent application which has proceeded to grant in preparation for the Danish company's entry on the huge Chinese market. A number ...

Between now and 2030, China will be adding as much new power capacity as the US, UK, and Australia combined use today, according to calculations from HSBC. That is a staggering amount. But there is a catch: Generating electricity requires water, and Chinese supplies are increasingly running short. Whether it is water used to cool nuclear power stations, in coal-washing, steam turbines, or solar panel factor ...

A 200 m³/d desalination facility has been donated to An Binh Island in Vietnam by Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co Ltd of South Korea. A ceremony on 31 August 2012 on the island in Ly Son prefecture was attended by 300 people including several Vietnamese central government officials. The Doosan facility includes two seawater reverse-osmosis units, two generators, which will provide the island w ...

India’s biggest builder of water-treatment plants, VA Tech Wabag Ltd. (VATW),expects sales to beat forecasts by rising as much as 20% annually as growing cities are overwhelmed by sewage drive government contracts. The Chennai-based company, a former unit of Siemens AG, has surged 36% this year on orders to construct water- cleaning plants for French cities, a solar polysilicon factory in Qatar and a petroc ...