Looking to add a fifth “national tap” to Singapore’s existing four, national water agency PUB announced yesterday that it was looking to study the possibility of drawing on “naturally occurring aquifers and groundwater” in the area of the Jurong Formation. Aquifers are underground layers of water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials, such as sand, from which groundwater can be extracted. The P ...

Solar energy developer REC Solar has secured a contract to supply solar panels totalling the power capacity of 72MW for construction of six solar power plants in Thailand. The company will deliver 293,040 REC Peak Energy Series solar panels which will be installed at the SolarCo power plants located in Nakhon Pathom and Suphan Buri provinces. Yanhee EGCO Holding will own and operate the plants, while Italth ...

AGL Energy Ltd.  Thursday played down interest in electricity generators being sold by Australia's New South Wales state, dealing a blow to lawmakers as they attempt to raise funds for major infrastructure upgrades. "We don't see a lot of value in those New South Wales assets and I will personally be quite surprised if we actually end up acquiring anything out of the privatization process," AGL Chief Execut ...

Avantha Group Company CG and PLNE (PT Prima Layanan Nasional Enjinring) have signed a joint venture agreement to manufacture and commercialize High Voltage (HV) and Extra High Voltage (EHV) switchgear in Indonesia. PLNE is an engineering company owned by PLN (Perusahaan Listrik Negara), an Indonesian government-owned Sole Electricity Utility Company.  The joint venture will be owned 51% by CG and 49% by PLN ...

The latest power generation capacity auction for independent power producers (IPPs) has drawn a lukewarm response from a number of developers due reportedly, to impractical conditions. Only nine proposals from five IPPs were submitted on Monday, and all of the projects would be gas-fired plants. The five are state-owned Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand Plc, Gulf JP Co, National Power Supply, Glo ...

The Ministry of Electrical Power have officially opened the 120 megawatts natural gas power plant that was constructed with help from Thailand. The plant is constructed with BOT system between Ministry of Electrical Power and Toyo Thai Power Myanmar Co., Ltd., Khin Maung Soe, said the Minister of Electrical Power. According to the contract, the ministry will have seven per cent of the 120 megawatts for free ...

lika's patent application covering its lower cost metal alloys and their use as electro-catalysts in PEM fuel cells has been granted in Japan. This follows the granting of a patent in the US. Chief executive Graeme Purdy said: "The grant of this patent in Japan builds on the company's IP position in the USA and is an important stepping-stone in reinforcing the commercial value of Ilika's technology in this ...

French heavy engineering group Alstom said Thursday it had completed in 24 hours the spinning of the four 60-MW turbines it installed at the Uri-II hydropower plant (HPP) in India's state of Jammu and Kashmir. Having completed that stage of the project, the company will now proceed with the grid synchronisation of the vertical turbines which is to take place in the next few months. Alstom won in 2007 a turn ...

Orange Jaisalmer Wind Energy, an Orange Renewable Holding SPV, has raised a loan of Rs1.95 billion to finance the a 50.4MW wind power plant located in Bhesada, in the district of Jaisalamer in Rajasthan. The project is being implemented under the wind power policy of the state government. The loan, with a 14 year tenor, pays a margin of 275bp over SBI base rate. Lenders are SBI Capital (Rs1bn), India Renewa ...

This doesn’t look good. Suntech, the embattled Chinese solar panel maker, has canceled $1.3 billion in polysilicon orders with South Korea chemical giant OCI. Polysilicon is the key raw ingredient in photovoltaic panels and Reuters reports that the disclosure by OCI in a regulatory filing sent OCI’s shares tumbling 9.5% to a six-year low on South Korea’s stock exchange. But don’t expect Suntech’s assembly l ...