Qantas has launched one of Australia’s largest trigeneration power plants, designed to supply the airline’s Sydney headquarters with clean energy for electricity, heating and cooling. Trigeneration is a low-carbon form of energy production that is more than twice as efficient as traditional coal-fired generation. An engine powered by natural gas generates electricity, and the excess heat from the process – ...

South Korea’s Daelim Industrial Co. is in exclusive talks to buy a 30% stake in an Australian power station owned by Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp., a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The move by Marubeni to find a buyer for its interest in the Millmerran power station in Queensland state was first reported by The Wall Street Journal in February. A deal is expected to be agreed within th ...

DuPont and Chinese green power company Yingli Energy Company Limited have signed a one-year, $100 million solar energy deal. The strategic agreement includes the supply of advanced solar materials, the installation of a solar power plant and co-marketing initiatives and expands a previous $100 million supply agreement between the companies announced in February of last year. “Materials are critical to help ...

Tata Power Company Ltd on Friday said it has bagged a 1,200 MW power project in Vietnam. The coal-fired supercritical project would mark the Tata Group firm’s entry into the South-East Asian country. “Tata Power has been awarded Long Phu 2 project by the Government of Vietnam based on the pre-feasibility studies. The capacity is 1,200 MW as per the Master Plan. Tata Power is pursuing further steps including ...

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting French President Francois Hollande agreed at a meeting on Friday to enhance their nuclear and security cooperation. During the summit meeting hosted by Abe at the Prime Minister's Office, the two leaders concluded a written agreement on comprehensive nuclear cooperation between the two countries that includes joint development of technology for a fast reactor, nu ...

Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. said on Monday it has released P2.829 million from the proceeds of its 2012 stock rights offering (SRO) to fund expensed in a renewable energy (RE) project. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Trans-Asia said it will use the funds for the 54 MW wind energy project in San Lorenzo, Guimaras. Unit Trans-Asia Renewable Energy Corp. has already received t ...

The current electricity generation in Pakistan is 12,900 MW, but the demand is17,000 MW, according to reports on Monday.
People across the country are facing the worst ever electricity load shedding this summer with power shortfall exceeding 4,000MW and the duration of load shedding rising to 18 hours a day in most areas. The citizens of rural areas are facing more than 20 hours of load shedding while in ur ...

The Myanmar and Indian governments have terminated two hydroelectric projects with capacity of 2,080 MW in Myanmar's Chindwin River due to the environmental and social impact. Both the Htamanthi hydropower project with an installed capacity of 1,200 MW and the Shwezaye hydropower project with 880 MW would have been built on the Chindwin River, one of the country's major rivers and the tributary of the Ayeya ...

Japan is expected to become the world’s largest solar energy market this year, with the installation of new solar power systems more than doubling capacity, a recent report by a U.S. research firm says. The domestic solar power market is forecast to reach $19.8 billion (¥1.91 trillion) in 2013, surpassing Germany, which was the biggest market from 2009 to 2012, according to the report by IHS Inc. An estimat ...

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) will buy electricity from China to ensure the country's power security. The Thai utility authority last week signed an MoU with China Southern Power Grid Co (CSG), the state-owned power transmission and distribution company, to supply electricity from hydroelectric power plants to Thailand. The pact was signed after Thailand suffered supply disruptions ...