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Pakistan Begins Work on New 1,000MW Nuclear Power Plant

Pakistan has commenced spadework on the 1,000MW nuclear power plant being built with the Chinese assistance near Hawkes Bay in Karachi, unnamed sources have revealed. A part of the Karachi Coastal power project, which involves construction of two nuclear reactors having a production capacity of 1,000MW each, the $4bn plant is scheduled to be inaugurated by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, on a later da ...

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US Deal Spotlights Vietnam’s Ambitious Nuclear Plans

An agreement signed between the United States and Vietnam earlier this month could allow U.S. companies to sell nuclear technology to Vietnam. The deal still needs to be ratified by the U.S. Congress, but the agreement has nonetheless put what some critics say are Vietnam’s overly ambitious nuclear power plans in the spotlight. On October 10, Secretary of State John Kerry signed a civil cooperation agreemen ...

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Malaysian Tribes Protest Borneo Mega Dam

Hundreds of Malaysian tribespeople blockaded the construction site of a new dam on Thursday that is set to force them from their homes in Sarawak on the island of Borneo, activists said. The Baram dam is the latest in a series of controversial hydroelectric mega-dams planned by the Sarawak government as it pushes economic development in one of Malaysia’s poorest states. Indigenous Kenyah, Kayan and Penan pe ...

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Suntech Announces New Quick-Install Solar PV Modules

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world’s largest solar companies, announced a quicker and more cost effective method, using Zep Solar® technology, to install PV arrays for commercial and residential roof applications. Suntech will showcase its new Zep CompatibleTM module at this week’s Solar Power International (SPI) Exhibition, booth #243. Zep Solar mounting and grounding products are purposefu ...

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Dubai’s 13MW Solar Power Plant Goes Live

A 13 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic (PV) power plant, marking the first phase of Dubai’s Dhs12 billion Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, has gone live, it was announced on Tuesday. The facility is now the largest operating solar PV plant in the region. The plant was connected to the emirate’s electricity grid 195 days after breaking ground in March 2013. Spread across an area of 238,764 square meters, ...

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Hydrogen Fuel Cells to Power US Army

Army scientists have been working to cut down on the fuel consumption of forward operating bases in order to lower the costs associated with such bases. Lowering fuel expenditure is not the only focus of the Army, of course, as it also intends to increase its use of renewable energy as directed by the U.S. Department of Defense. The federal agency considers energy to be a matter of national security and has ...

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Meralco Secures 20% Stake Global Power

Meralco PowerGen Corp. (MGen), the power generation unit of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), has acquired the 20 percent stake of First Metro Investment Corp. (FMIC) in Global Business Power Corp. for P7.15 billion. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange yesterday, Meralco said MGen and FMIC have signed a shareholders’ agreement to complete the sale of FMIC’s 20-percent stake in Global Power, a powe ...

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CMEC to Contribute 2,000 MW to Nigeria’s National Grid

China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC), reputed to be the number one Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor in China for international power plant construction has stated that it would contribute almost 2,000megawatts of electricity to Nigeria. Speaking at the inauguration of the 500megawatt-capacity Omotosho Power Plant built under the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) in ...

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ADB to Provide $12m for Cross-Border Power Supply

Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide additional $12m as loan to finance a cross-border electricity supply initiative between Bangladesh and India. With this additional support, the lender came up with a total of $112m for the $199m project called the “SASEC Bangladesh–India Electrical Grid Interconnection Project.” The fresh funding will meet the shortage of money required for the project. To this effe ...

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REpower Erects 5,000th Wind Turbine

Suzlon Group subsidiary REpower Systems SE has installed its 5,000th turbine, located near Buchen in the Neckar-Odenwald district, Germany. In total, REpower has so far installed more than 9.6 GW of capacity, enough to supply more than 18 million people, or the entire population of the Netherlands, with electricity. “We are delighted that we contribute to a clean energy supply as a reliable partner with pro ...

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