The presidential palace, the prime minister's office, government offices and television stations were all hit by the outage. Hospital intensive care units functioned on back-up generators, but ward patients suffered. Power returned to Dhaka's international airport after several hours during in which it was forced to run on generators, officials said. "We have already restored power to some parts of the capi ...

Safety screenings by the Nuclear Regulation Authority are making progress, especially on 12 pressurized water reactors at six nuclear power plants. The NRA has received safety check applications concerning 20 reactors at 13 plants - including Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, which obtained local government approval on Friday for restarting its reactors. Passing NRA safety sc ...

The donation forms part of activities under a 2-million-USD project funded by the Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power’s Central Research Institute, with the aim to support the training of Vietnamese nuclear power personnel. The equipment that simulates the operation of the RoK-designed OPR 1000 (Optimised Power Reactor) in real time is the first of its kind in Vietnam, promising to facilitate not only personnel ...

SUEZ to design, construct and operate a desalination plant at the new Mirfa Independent Water and Power Project in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Hyundai Engineering & Construction has officially selected Degrémont, a subsidiary of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, to build the reverse osmosis (RO) seawater desalination plant of the Mirfa Independent Water and Power Project (Mirfa IWPP) in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Abu Dha ...

The country’s bid to wean itself off fossil fuels and tap its massive potential for renewable energy has received a big boost following the completion of the largest wind farm in Southeast Asia. EDC Burgos Wind Power Corp. (EBWPC), an affiliate of Lopez-led Energy Development Corp. (EDC), informed the Department of Energy (DOE) last Nov. 5 that its 150-megawatt (MW) wind project in Burgos, Ilocos Norte had ...

Engineers are planning a long awaited upgrade of the biggest hydro-electric plant in Afghanistan. Improving power output was supposed to be a priority for NATO and the US government, but work stalled six years ago. Now the Afghan government has taken up the project ...

Last week, Bangladesh suffered a nationwide blackout for around 12 hours. The country's hospitals, airports, businesses and government offices were forced to use backup generators. The capital Dhaka resembled a ghost town as it plunged into darkness. Unfortunately, blackouts in the South Asian country aren't a rare occurrence. The country, which relies on a 400 MW (mega watt) power line from India to provid ...

Nuclear power is likely to resume in Japan when the southern prefecture of Kagoshima gives the green light to restart the two-reactor Sendai plant. Japan has 48 nuclear reactors but all have been offline since September 2012, following the Fukushima nuclear meltdown the previous year. Kagoshima Prefecture has kicked off a three-day emergency assembly meeting to discuss the restart of the two nuclear reactor ...

Cummins Power Generation is proud to present ‘The Power of More’: QSK95 Series generator sets. These new high horse power generator sets have been proved to provide more power, less space, more performance, less fuel, more reliability, less downtime. As a customer you get all of this plus more support for any of your Cummins power generation needs. ...

C3 Energy has joined the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Trade and Development Agency in major trade missions to drive discussions around smart grid technology globally. Most recently, C3 Energy participated in a trade mission to meet with electricity and gas utilities and senior government officials in Japan and South Korea from Oct. 19-23. “That adds up to substantial cost savings, reduced emissions, ...