MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, announced that it now offers a second generation 0.35-micron BCD (Bipolar/CMOS/DMOS) high voltage process technology. This next generation process supports applications from 3.3V to 65V making it ideally suited for DC-DC converters and regulators, Power-over-Ethernet, LED drivers, ...

Global clean power industry stakeholders to gather in Bangkok next April The Clean Power industry is growing rapidly in Asia, and Thailand is at the heart of new regional developments. The 3rd annual Clean Power Asia returns to Bangkok from 29-30 April, and serves to provide updates in the renewable energy space regionally. Clean Power Asia is developed to provide a superior platform for public and private ...

Indonesia will see a massive increase in power supply this year thanks to 19 coal-fired power plants, with a combined operational capacity of 3,620 megawatts (MW). This year’s power supply, if materialized, will be the biggest since the 1998 financial crisis, according to the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry. The plants are part of the delayed first phase of the 10,000 MW program, launched in 2006, to ...

Iran is set to inaugurate two combined cycle power plants with the production capacity of 648 megawatts in the central Iranian province of Semnan. Mohammad Reza Qalambor, the projects’ manager, said Shahid Bastami power plant in the city of Shahrood and Quds power plant in the city of Semnan would be inaugurated later on Tuesday. Qalambor noted that the project comprises four 162-megawatt units, adding that ...

Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation ( GMDC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Korea's KEPCO Plant Services and Engineering Company Limited for long-term operation & maintenance of GMDC's Akrimota Thermal Power Station. The MoU is to the tune of Rs 500 crore for long-term operation and maintenance contract for 250-megawatt Akrimota Thermal Power Station, a government official ...

The Ministry of Economic Affairs warned that electricity prices could soar by 40 percent if the country abandoned nuclear power as its major electricity source. If the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District is prevented from becoming operational, while the first and second nuclear power plants are retired, state-run Taiwan Power Co would have to increase electricity rates sharply ...

The Vietnam Development Bank (VDB) and Vietnam Electricity (EVN) reached an agreement on a major loan on January 7th in Hanoi Accordingly VDB will provide credit of VND 2,500 billion for EVN to implement two power projects, namely Vinh Tan 2 Thermo-Power Plant and Duyen Hai 1 Thermo-Power Plant. The two power projects will have total generation capacity of 2,400 MW, and cost VND 52,722 billion. According to ...

Power companies in Vietnam all have reported big profits for 2012, up by 1.5-4 times in comparison with the last year. Meanwhile, the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) expects the profit of VND 3.5-4 trillion. Profits up to 400 percent The third quarter finance reports of power companies belonging to EVN and the companies where EVN holds the controlling stakes showed that they made fat profits in 2012 thanks to ...

The International Hydropower Association and the China Society for Hydropower Engineering (CSHE) have announced a collaboration that will lead to the establishment of an IHA National Office in China. IHA said CHSE is China's leading hydropower organization, with 40,000 individual members, 203 corporate members and 22 provincial hydroelectric engineering societies. CHSE will work to promote the IHA's Hydropo ...

Over 600 million people lost power in India last summer, setting a modern record for the number of people affected by a blackout. Well before that, though, India’s government was grappling with growing pressure to increase the dependability of its electricity service — for the growing numbers who have intermittent power and the 400 million who live without it. As a solution, the government proposed construc ...