Alstom Renewable Power Chairman Jérôme Pécresse and DCNS Marine Energy and Infrastructures Division Director Thierry Kalanquin were on hand on 13th of October as both groups signed a partnership agreement in the floating wind energy business. The agreement aims at developing and then commercialising an integrated system for a semi-submersible floating wind turbine delivering 6 MW. The groups will combine th ...

Wärtsilä and two Indonesian partners on Wednesday signed a joint development agreement with the intention of creating the first ever bio-LNG plant in Indonesia. The co-signers of the agreement with Wärtsilä are PT Pertamina and PT Godang Tua Jaya (GTJ), a waste utilization sector specialist company. Wärtsilä Oil & Gas Systems will conduct a feasibility study for the project to develop a mini bio-LNG pla ...

ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) has said interests in Iran’s discovered Farsi offshore block are still alive, reported Indian newspaper BusinessLine. Company’s managing director Narendra K Verma said there is nothing that suggest that India is out of race. “We have been interacting with Iranian authorities… negotiations are not yet concluded.” Media reports have suggested that Iran has put the Farzad-B gas field on a ...

New Customer Network Center is dedicated facility giving Alcatel-Lucent customers hands-on experience with advanced technologies to create new services and virtualized network functions Paris, France and Tokyo, Japan, October 09, 2014 Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has today opened an innovative facility in Tokyo designed to give service providers and enterprise customers hands-on experience ...

Asia has taken the lead as the wind power capital of the world as a surge in installation activity in China has led a recovery in the global wind energy sector. In its half yearly report for 2014, the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) said the overall volume of global added capacity came in at 17613 megawatts (MW) in the six months to June – up from 13,978 and 16,376 in the first half of 2013 and 2012 re ...

A boom of nuclear power is underway in major Asian countries despite Japan's experience with Fukushima. Growth in China continues unabated; India is planning and making major nuclear power investments; challenges in South Korea will not impair long-term growth; and emerging Asian countries are also expressing interest. The story of nuclear power in Asia overall is one of consistency and growth for the first ...

The global gas turbine market is expected to remain nearly stable in the future. Concerns over global warming and carbon emissions have led many countries to adopt stringent emissions regulations, encouraging the use of cleaner sources of power generation, such as natural gas. The majority of market revenue will come from the US, along with emerging economies in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The latter ...

Space-Time Insight, the leading provider of next-generation situational intelligence solutions, and NEC Corporation have announced the formation of a partnership for the smart energy market. Under this partnership, NEC has concluded a preferred sales contract covering Japan and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region with Space-Time Insight for the sale of several of the company's real-time visual analytics applicat ...

Conglomerate Ayala Corp. has gone cold for its supposed maiden solar power venture, but remains fired up with its other energy projects. John Eric Francia, group head for corporate strategy and development of Ayala Corp. and chief executive of AC Energy Holdings Inc. said the country’s oldest conglomerate has shelved a planned 35-megawatt (MW) solar farm in Davao del Sur. The Mindanao solar farm, Ayala’s fo ...

The International Energy Agency has challenged the claim by the global thermal coal industry that centralised coal-fired generation is the best solution to energy poverty – where more than 1 billion people in Asia and Africa still go without power. Over the last year, the coal industry has tried desperately to revive its flagging fortunes by saying coal was the only technology that could deliver cheap elect ...