Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Hyundai Motor Co. are among automakers aiming to sell new fuel cell vehicles as soon as 2015. But the vehicles may be unprofitable for a decade after that. Honda's top engineer for the technology says his company expects the vehicles to be profitable by 2025. Speaking at an automotive battery conference, Takashi Moriya, Honda senior chief engineer, said that's when th ...

Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell have expressed interest in participating in natural-gas distribution in Thailand, following the regulator's plan to open up the industry. Energy Regulatory Commission member Pallapa Ruangrong yesterday said both foreign companies had said they were interested in exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the Kingdom. Speaking at the regulator's "Interconnectivity & Cross-Bord ...

The Authority; The Delhi Jal Board, Responsible for Water Management in New Delhi, has Awarded Degrémont a DBO Contract (design, build, operate) to build an urban wastewater treatment plant at Delhi Gate Nalla with a capacity of 70,000 m3 per day. This investment is part of the Yamuna Action Plan II, a bilateral project between the Indian and Japanese governments aimed at rehabilitating the quality of water ...

Shrinking freshwater levels has lead to Chinese Power Plants Becoming Increasingly Compelled to Adopt Water Reuse and Recycling Treatment Solutions and reduce water consumption, thereby leading to the strong growth of the country's water and wastewater management market. Eastern China has so far been the focal point for investments in treatment technology, the growth of the power industry in Central and Sou ...

Electricity Generating Plc (EGCO), Thailand's second-largest private power producer, will spend 15 billion baht this year to expand generation capacity and diversify from fossil fuels into renewable energy. President Sahust Pratuknukul said Egco is considering both investing in new projects and acquiring power plants already operated by independent power producers (IPPs). "We are working on proposals for ne ...

State utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) has on Wednesday signed a contract with PT Rekadaya Elektrika for the construction of a coal-fired power plant  in Timika, Papua, with capacity of 4x7 megawatts (MW). The Timika plant will be supplied with turbines produced by PT Siemens Industrial Power based in Bandung, West Java. The contruction of first unit of  the Timika plant will take 19 months, to fi ...

Water treatment company Xylem has purchased Australian water and wastewater company MultiTrode Pty. Ltd. for about $26 million. Xylem Inc. said Friday that MultiTrode complements its existing business and will help it better meet customers' needs. MultiTrode, a privately held company, has a portfolio that includes pump station controllers and supervisors, level-sensing devices, web-based monitoring services ...

Suez Environment, Europe’s third- largest water company by market value, won 41 million euros ($53 million) of contracts to build and operate water-treatment plants in New Delhi and Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley. Suez’s subsidiary Degremont said today in a statement that the contract in India’s capital, where more than 17 million people reside, was awarded by the Delhi Jal Board to construct and manage ...

Siemens Energy has opened two major Research & Development test facilities for wind turbine technology in Denmark. The new test center in Brande features test stands for major components of Siemens wind turbines, including generators, main bearings and complete nacelles. In Aalborg, seven blade test stands are capable to perform full scale tests of rotor blades, including the world's largest blade in op ...

Mytrah Energy said it has agreed conditional terms to acquire 59.75MW of existing operational wind power assets in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. These assets, which have an average age of under 12 months, comprise turbines from Gamesa, ReGen and Enercon. The proposed acquisition has enabled Mytrah Energy to better optimize the use of its development budget and cash resources, by allowing ...