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APGenco Awarded Odisha Coal Block

In what should be welcome news for the power hit-Andhra Pradesh, the Union coal ministry has allocated a huge coal block in Odisha to APGenco that would allow the generation company to produce another 4,000 MW of power annually for the next 30 years. The allocation has come in the form of the 701 million tonnes Sarapal-Nuapara coal block in Talcher coalfields of Odisha. However, according to sources in the ...

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Japan and Vietnam Talk Clean Coal technology

Japan, eager to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions, has begun pitching its fuel-efficient coal-fired power generating facilities to Asian countries, which rely on the fossil fuel for their energy needs. The policy would seem to fly in the face of efforts by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to promote exports of Japanese nuclear technology as part of a package of measures to improve the economy. Demand for coal po ...

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EnergyAustralia to Run Radical Pricing Plan to Reduce Household Bills

In a radical strategy to contain power bills, households would get lower rates in return for enduring short, but sharp, price increases when demand is at its highest. They could also be paid to go without air-conditioning. EnergyAustralia, which has 2.8 million customers in southeast Australia, is trialing charging households more than 12 times the normal price of power up to 14 times a year in two-hour "dy ...

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NTPC Awards Tata Power with Largest Solar Project in India

Tata Power Solar, the leading Indian solar company, has won a prestigious 50 MW solar photovoltaic project from NTPC as part of their mandate to expand their renewable energy portfolio to 1,000MW by 2017. The new flagship 50MW project, at Rajgarh, Madhya Pradesh, will double NTPC’s solar capacity. Once commissioned in March 2014, the project is expected to generate 78.66 million units (Kwh) of energy each y ...

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Conergy Latest Solar Casualty

German solar panel manufacturer Conergy said it will file for insolvency, the latest victim of ferocious competition from Asia in the industry. Conergy, which has workforce of around 1,200, said it would file an application for the opening of insolvency proceedings at a court in the northern city of Hamburg but remained "confident" of finding an investor. "The management remains confident of achieving a con ...

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Three Deals Mark High for China’s Secondary Water Treatment Market

Three deals in the last week marked a high point of activity in the secondary market for Chinese water and wastewater treatment plants. On 2nd July, Beijing Enterprises Water Group (BEWG) announced it had agreed to acquire 60% of Beijing Construction Engineering Group’s Environmental Development Company subsidiary. The RMB270 million ($43.6 million) purchase will bring a portfolio of 26 wastewater treatment ...

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Harry Seah talks about the Singapore Public Utilities Board’s Four National Taps Strategy

[wpdm_file id=7] The Public Utilities Board of Singapore are responsible for all aspects of the countries of the water network. They have made huge efforts and advances to bring in a multi-pronged and integrated approach by managing the water cycle in a holistic manner, and ploughing investments into R&D and technology. Their Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Harry Seah talks exclusively with Power Insider ...

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Marubeni and KEPCO announce major coup for 1200 MW IPP project in Vietnam

Marubeni Corporation together with Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) on a 50%:50% shareholding ratio, have jointly received the notification of an award for the development of a project to construct, own and operate a 1,200MW (600MW x 2 units; 1,200,000 kW) coal-fired power plant for electricity sales to Vietnam Electricity Holding Company (“EVN”) in Nghi Son, Thanh Hoa province, in the central area ...

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ABB win major order from Rio Tinto in the Pilbara region

ABB Ltd recently received an order from Rio Tinto plc to upgrade an existing power substation at the Cape Lambert port in Western Australia's Pilbara region. The order, booked in the first quarter, is worth approximately $27 million and is expected to be completed by early 2014. The main objective of the contract is to upgrade and increase port power supply to catch up with the incremental exports from Pilb ...

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Review of the Sasan UMPP developed by Reliance

[wpdm_file id=6] This informative article takes an in-depth review of the world's biggest mine integrated power plant, that will stand at a phenomenal 4000MW when completed in the near future. The first unit of 660MW was recently commissioned as the station forms part of the Indian governments ambitious UMPP scheme.  The case study reviews  the specifications of the plants road to construction looking at th ...

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