Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov ordered the creation of a State Commission for construction of desalination plants on the coast of the Caspian Sea, an official Turkmen source said on Wednesday. This structure will improve the provision of Balkan province, western region of the country, with drinking water and water for farmlands. The State Commission has been given order to submit proposals to ...

Private sector financing for the nuclear industry is set to increase. The financial cost of new nuclear power projects is a major factor in planning for a sustainable nuclear future. Traditional providers of capital to the nuclear industry have been governments and Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), with commercial banks and international financial institutions playing a lesser role. However, new trends are eme ...

Bangalore-headquartered Bhoruka Power is among the leading renewable energy companies in India with a total capacity of 150 MW, of which 110 MW is small hydro and the rest, wind. Yesterday, GE, which supplied wind turbines to Bhoruka’s 25.5-MW wind farm in Karnataka, announced the commissioning of the farm. The Rs 180-crore project will generate 62 million units of electricity a year. Bhoruka sells the powe ...

Huadian Power International Co., a Chinese electricity producer, has begun operating four wind farms with a total capacity of 198 MW. Two of the 49.5 MW farms are held by its Hebei Huadian Yuzhou Wind Power Co. unit and two by its Huadian Ningxia Ningdong Wind Power Co. Huadian said it controls installed capacity of 31.7 GW. In October, a large loan was obtained from China Development Bank, and the company ...

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has resumed manufacturing at the Toshiba Semiconductor Thailand Co., Ltd. (TST) facility in Pathumthani, Thailand, in order to meet healthy demand for discrete products for smart phones and tablet PCs. Production resumed earlier this month and shipments will start today. Production will continue until TST opens its new facility in Purachinburi. TST's facility in t ...

Gamesa India, the Indian arm of the global wind turbine major, intends to take a plunge into the growing Indian solar industry. Gamesa’s Chairman and Managing Director, Ramesh Kymal, told journalists that the company would start doing solar ‘engineering, procurement and construction’ jobs, building solar power plants for others. Gamesa will soon make a formal announcement about its solar foray, Kymal said, ...

Power-One Inc. in Camarillo, which makes solar inverters, power conversion and power management products, said it has allied with solar panel manufacturer and system developer Phono Solar to expand its Asia-Pacific market presence. Under the agreement, Power-One and Phono Solar will jointly develop, market and sell photovoltaic systems worldwide using Power-One inverters and monitoring systems, the company ...

Conergy has announced that it has secured a major contract for two solar power plants in Thailand through a tendering procedure, representing a total capacity of 21 MW. The awarding authority is Thai Solar Energy Company Limited (TSE), which is a local investor with a registered office in Bangkok. Conergy will be the main contractor for the two projects, responsible both for planning, engineering and design ...

The first tower-type solar thermal power station in Asia has been built in northwest Beijing, chief of the program said on Monday. Wang Zhifeng, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the station is operating in stable condition, using a steam turbine generator to generate electricity. "The solar-thermal power station will transform solar energy into heat energy to generate electricity," said ...

The concept of a "super-grid" capable of moving huge amounts of electricity over long distances is popular with environmentalists and governments keen to promote the integration of more renewables into the power supply, overcome transmission bottlenecks and bring power to remote communities. "An electricity super-grid could take green electricity produced in one country to another through thousands of kilom ...