Government’s plan to continue allowing private companies to generate and supply power to the public can rise threefold to fourfold in the current power bill without issuing any particular law as to the electricity, said local sources. If the private companies supply power to the public, the charge of one unit might be K 120 to K 150. At present, the Ministry of Electric Power is signing agreements with the ...

PowerGrid Corporation is seeking a "viable return" for a proposed undersea transmission cable linking India and Sri Lanka, which has been delayed. The project, with a capacity to transmit 500 MW of electricity, is to be jointly implemented with the Ceylon Electricity Board at an estimated cost of Rs 2,500-3,000 crore and was scheduled to be completed this year. "We have submitted the draft report on the und ...

The DNV KEMA Clean Technology Centre (CTC) in Singapore has opened an Asian Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Management, the company announced today. “The CoE will enable DNV KEMA to apply its global experience to support the Asia Pacific energy market in building a solid and more sustainable energy future,” says David Walker, CEO for DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability. The C ...

In a first of this kind of arrangement, private power producer Torrent Power will directly buy natural gas from Petronet LNG to feed its station. “The first start is Torrent Power who is now connected to the Dahej terminal for direct supply of gas,’’ said A.K. Balyan, Chief Executive Officer, Petronet. Petronet is an importer of natural gas and currently operates two terminals at Dahej and Kochi. “They (Tor ...

Myanmar has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Korea to build a 500-megawatt power plant which will use natural gas and garbage to generate power. The signing ceremony was held between Myanmar's Hexa International Company and Korea Western Power jointly with Korea Electrical Manufacturers Association on September 3 at Sedona Hotel in Yangon. The power plant will be built in Thakayta Towns ...

State-owned Bhel today said its electronics division here has bagged an order worth Rs 96 crore from NTPC to set up a 15 MW-solar power plant in Uttar Pradesh. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) order is for design, manufacture, testing, erection and commissioning of the 15 MW grid-Interactive solar power plant at Singrauli in Uttar Pradesh,the company said in a statement. BHEL will execute ...

The Chinese backer of the Myitsone dam project says more than half the funds to construct the multi-billion-dollar project have already been paid to Burma, although the project was suspended last year. Sixty percent of a total $3.6 billion in investment to build the controversial hydropower dam project in Kachin State has been paid, according to Wang Qiyue, director of China Power Investment Corporation (CP ...

The development of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) appears to be gaining momentum. Toyota Motor and Honda Motor have announced plans to start selling FCEVs in 2015. Hyundai Motor of South Korea also has a similar plan. The success of FCEVs will depend largely on whether carmakers can price them competitively and how widespread hydrogen stations become. Conventional electric vehicles that rely on batteri ...

Amata B Grimm Power Group expects the money it raises from selling units of its infrastructure fund (ABPIF) will finance two of the 11 power plants it plans to set up by 2019. Each plant will require an investment of Bt2.5 billion, so this funding source could support about two of them, as ABPIF is worth Bt6.3 billion to Bt6.6 billion, said group president Preeyanart Soontornwata. She said the group would n ...

Vestas has received two orders totalling 100 MW from Ningxia-based Hanas New Energy (Hanas), the leading regional natural gas supplier in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR). Less than a month ago, Hanas ordered 50 MW from Vestas, which brought Hanas' portfolio of Vestas turbines up to 250 MW. With today's two additional orders, Hanas' portfolio of Vestas turbines amounts to 350 MW and Vestas remai ...