The Abu Dhabi National Energy Company on Sunday said it has acquired a minority interest in the developer of a 100 megawatt hydroelectric plant in northern India, with plans to fully acquire the firm at a later date. The purchase is the latest in a string of acquisitions by the firm, which is 75 percent owned by the Abu Dhabi government. TAQA said in a statement it had acquired an interest in Himachal Soran ...

A recently approved plan to increase the capacity of Nepal's Upper Trishula 3A hydropower project from has not come without controversy, according to sources. The Upper Trishula 3A, part of Nepal's plan to develop 10,000 MW of hydropower by the end of the decade, is being constructed as a 60 MW hydroelectric project on the Trishuli River. A decision approved at a meeting of Nepal's Council of Ministers earl ...

THE preliminary results of a trial, pumping treated wastewater underground into the Gnangara Mound, are encouraging, the State Government says. The three-year trial, which ended on December 31, involved pumping 2.5 billion litres of recycled water into the aquifer at the Beenyup Wastewater Treatment Plant in Craigie. Water Minister Bill Marmion said every one of the more than 70,000 water samples that were ...

KKR & Co LP, one of the largest private equity firms in the world, made a $40 million follow-on equity investment in United Envirotech Ltd, showing great confidence in the huge Chinese water treatment market. KKR is offering S$0.50 ($0.40) for each share of the Singapore-listed recycling and water treatment company, which focuses on the Chinese market. The offer represents an 8.5 percent premium to the ...

South Korean power equipment maker Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. said its Vietnamese unit is shipping its second locally made water desalination plant, one the size of a soccer field, to Saudi Arabia. The three-story, single-piece “plug and play” unit built at Doosan Vina’s complex in Quang Ngai Province in central Vietnam weighs 3,500 tons and when operational will produce about 91 million ...

After Indo-Japanese car major Maruti Suzuki India decided to make Gujarat its next big manufacturing hub in India after Haryana, the ball has been set rolling to develop a country-specific industrial park or cluster near Maruti Suzuki's proposed plant site in Hansalpur. A senior state government official close to the development said, "Around 500 hectares of land has been earmarked for Japan-based companies ...

Making headway on plans to shore up its water supply, Qatar has awarded Mitsubishi Corp. a $260 million contract to build a new desalination plant, officials announced yesterday. With a completion date set for June 2015, the plant, which is being financed by four local banks and managed by Kahramaa, will undergo the expensive process of converting sea water to produce 36 million gallons of fresh water daily ...

Alstom and its consortium partner, Hydrochina Zhongnan Engineering Corp, have signed a contract worth over €90 million with Vietnam Electricity (EVN) to provide the electro- mechanical equipment of the 1,200 MW Lai Chau hydro power plant located on the Da River, in Lai Chau Province. Alstom’s share in the contract is worth over €60 million. The scope of the contract includes the delivery, supervision of ere ...

Do you know how an electrical cable is made? The technology needed to ensure an electrical cable stays in good working condition for several years without problems, involves complicated manufacturing processes. See how Top Cable conform in this video. ...

To study the potential of harnessing wind power, four wind monitoring stations (WMS) will be set up in in Pilibhit, Sitapur, Shahjahanpur and Lakhimpur districts of Uttar Pradesh by the Centre for Wind Energy Technology (C-WET). After a year of analysis by C-WET, power plants based on wind energy will be developed in these areas on public-private partnership (PPP) model. This is the first time efforts are b ...