A worker at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant died Tuesday (Jan 20) after falling into a water tank, the country's nuclear operator said, the second fatal accident to blight efforts to stabilise the tsunami-battered facility. Separately on Tuesday, another worker died because of an incident at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant, which is located several kilometres south of the damaged plant, ope ...

In a bid to set fair domestic electricity rates, legislators yesterday reached an agreement on a new electricity pricing mechanism, which will cap annual electricity rate increases at 6 percent. The new pricing scheme will take effect in April at the earliest, with legislators saying that as international crude oil prices are likely to continue to fall, it is expected that electricity rates will fall after ...

Cambodia's biggest hydropower dam began operating Monday as Prime Minister Hun Sen inaugurated the Chinese-built project to help supply electricity for underserved villages and factories. He was joined by the Chinese ambassador at the official opening of the 338-megawatt Russei Chrum Krom hydropower project, which took almost five years to build at a cost of about $500 million. The project in southwestern K ...

The latest generation of hydrogen fuel cell power unit, developed by Intelligent Energy in the UK, has been successfully operated at a mobile telecom tower site in India. This milestone event represents the first phase of a commercial roll out of fuel cell units which will, over time, power a portfolio of telecom towers where Intelligent Energy’s subsidiary, Essential Energy India, is providing power manage ...

According to GlobalData, the global market for Substation Automation Systems (SAS) for transmission substations will expand in value from an estimated $2.1 billion in 2014 to approximately $3.2 billion by 2020. As electricity demand continues to increase, nearly all major Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries are pursuing the deployment ... The company’s latest report states that the two key factors driving SAS mar ...

Finnish scientists believe that renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, will become the cheapest energy for consumers in Asia in next 10 years. A joint project conducted by Finnish Technical Research Center (VTT) at the Lappeenranta University of Technology and the University of Turku has successfully modelled comprehensive energy systems based entirely on renewable energy sources for China, ...

Global solar technology manufacturer SunEdison Monday said it has entered into an agreement with OMC Power to develop 5,000 rural electrical projects across India in the coming three to five years involving a total 250 MW of electricity. According to the US based company, the partnership leverages the expertise of both the companies including technical know-how, local and telecom knowledge from OMC and proj ...

Construction will begin on 22 new hydroelectric projects on Mindano Island this year after the Filipino Department of Energy (DOE) announced it awarded pre-development and development contracts to nine organizations on Jan. 2. Published reports indicate the projects, in the Davao Region, have a combined potential capacity of 256.35 MW. Neither the total financial outlay for the projects nor a final completi ...

Clean water is in short supply in Singapore and therefore innovative thinking is necessary, as the city-state ensures its access to the scarce resource. Grundfos has received a good 1.2 million euro to sophisticate a brand new technology in which the waste water is treated through sludge. The cleansed water can help ease the strain on the water resources in the area. At the beginning of 2015, Grundfos launc ...

Control systems at South Korean nuclear plants have not been harmed by recent attacks by hackers, but nevertheless Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power is increasing its security efforts to defend against a possible additional attack, the company's CEO Cho Seok told legislators. An investigation had found traces of a low-risk worm that had been removed from PCs and portable devices connected to the nuclear plant's ...