The government of Tajikistan and the World Bank have been the two main driving forces behind the implementation of the Central Asia South Asia power export project widely known by its acronym CASA1000. This project envisions erecting thousands of kilometres of high-voltage electricity transmission lines at the cost of around US$1 billion. Once completed, the project will make it possible for the export of a ...

Once the Smartgrid plan is implemented in India by Power Grid Corporation, it expects to prevent tripping and help in smooth flow of power. But, as a sequel to setting up the Smartgrid, state electricity distribution companies will have to upgrade their inter-state checking transmission systems. According to Power Secretary, P Uma Shankar, the southern region, which is not connected to the National Power Gr ...

Indian energy giant Adani Group is planning to build a $300 million electricity transmission mine to its proposed mine in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland. Despite growing speculation some of the Galilee mines, including Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal, may not proceed because of the falling coal price, Adani has flagged plans to build a 250-kilometre high-voltage line from Powerlink's Strathmore substat ...

An electricity outage that blacked out large swathes of the Philippines' main island of Luzon for up to eight hours last month has highlighted worries about a potential power crisis that could undermine Asia's fastest-growing economy. Predictions that electricity demand will outstrip government forecasts have raised fears over the impact on the expansion of industries such as call centres, tourism and gamin ...

State-run Taiwan Power Co is considering purchasing natural gas and building a receiving station in Taiwan in a bid to cut energy costs, a top company official said yesterday. Taipower president Chu Wen-chen said the company might stop purchasing energy through state-run oil refiner CPC Corp, Taiwan, as the development of shale gas in the US has contributed to lowering the price of natural gas. Taipower’s l ...

On June 3, Hyundai delivered the first ix35 Fuel Cell vehicle in Europe, to the City of Copenhagen in Denmark, and production of the company's hydrogen-fuelled vehicle began in February. That means that its first production hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle is now on the roads, albeit at low planned volumes (like most fuel-cell cars). Hyundai says it will build 1,000 of the hydrogen-fuelled compact crossover by 20 ...

KDDI Corp., Japan’s second-biggest mobile phone company, will build three solar plants in central Japan with a combined capacity of 8.8 MW to take advantage of the country’s incentive program for clean energy.  The Tokyo-based company will build a 3.5 MW station in Tochigi prefecture with plans for a 3.3 MW and 2 MW plants, both in Ibaraki prefecture, it said in a statement. The plants will be built on idle ...

On June 21, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Japanese ODA loan agreement with the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic in the capital of Laos, Vientiane, to provide up to 5.545 billion yen for the Nam Ngum 1 Hydropower Station Expansion Project. This project will aim to increase generation capacity to meet the peak power demand of the capital region by adding an extra ...

Japan's tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear complex has suffered another radioactive water leak, its operator said Friday, the latest in a series of incidents at the crippled plant. About 360 litres (95 gallons) of tainted water leaked from a desalination unit although it did not escape from the complex, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said. The desalination unit removes salt from tainted seawater used to cool ...

Indonesia and Malaysia would cooperate to develop a coal-fired power plant in Sumatra to meet the needs of electricity in the two countries. "The cooperation agreement was signed by the two countries` electricity companies last year," Energy Minister Jero Wacik said after opening an ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting here on Monday. The plant would have a capacity of 2,000 MW, 1,000 of which would be used to me ...