City Council plans to take a closer look at a $24 million project to improve the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant. Councilman Ed Lewis, R-Ward 6, said Tuesday night the city’s share in the proposed project is not specific, and suggested council needs more time to discuss specifics of the plan. Cost of the project is to be shared among Stark County, with some funding provided by the Ohio Water Development A ...

The work on Baglihar Power Project Stage II is to commence shortly as Jammu and Kashmir government plans an additional generation capacity of 9,000 MW in the state in the next few years. "The foundation stone of stage-II of the (Baglihar) project will be laid shortly. This would be a reiteration of the commitment of the government to bring a turnaround in the state's economy by tapping the huge hydro potent ...

Japan's government says it will spend $470 million to help deal with the repeated radioactive water leaks at the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Officials say part of the money will be used to build a wall of frozen earth to block surrounding groundwater from mixing with the toxic water being used to cool the plant's damaged reactors. The plant's operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, has ackno ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), jointly with CTCI Corporation, the largest engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm in Taiwan, has received a full-turnkey order from Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) for a project to construct a natural gas-fired gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) power generation plant with collective power generation capacity of 2,600 megawatts (MW). The large-scale GTCC ...

The talks between Japan and India to pursue a bilateral civil nuclear cooperation agreement is set to resume on Tuesday. Talks stalled due to the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in 2011 that prompted the Japanese government to shut down 48 of its 50 nuclear power plants. India’s officials from the Ministry of External Affairs, Joint Secretary (East Asia) Gautam Bambawale and Joint Se ...

State-run NTPC is likely to bid for two ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) worth Rs 20,000 crore each in Odisha and Tamil Nadu, a top company executive said today. "We have been participating in UMPPs and will bid for such projects as and when they come," company's Chairman and Managing Director Arup Roy Choudhury told reporters today. The Power Finance Corporation (PFC) is expected to invite preliminary bid ...

Vietnam’s policy to purchase power at low prices and hold a controlling stake in state-owned power projects has discouraged many foreign investors in the power sector. Vu Van Hau, project manager of investment consulting firm Vietnam Invest Network said that the firm had since early this year worked with more than 20 power investors from France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, Japan and South Kore ...

Bhutan is looking at attracting more foreign investments and greater private participation in expanding the country's hydro power sector. "We encourage private sector participation in the hydro power sector. We encourage Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)," Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay said here today, addressing industry chambers - CII, Ficci and Assocham. "For smaller projects, we will be encourag ...

Taiwan and China have agreed to provide fresh water from the southeastern Chinese city of Jinjiang to the Taiwan-held outlying county of Kinmen, to solve a looming water shortage that is expected to hurt the county's economic lifeline. The set of islands that make up Kinmen county is much closer to China than Taiwan proper. A delegation of water and county officials, led by county Deputy Magistrate Wu You-q ...

NGK Insulators Ltd. and a group led by Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. were picked for a project aimed at reducing the cost of storage systems that can help integrate clean energy onto the grid. Japan’s government will pay the companies as much as 75 percent of development costs, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in a statement Aug. 29. The Sumitomo group and NGK will work separately on two ...