Alstom T&D India, a leading player in the power transmission business, has been selected to lead the smart grid pilot project by Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board. This pilot project will be located at the Kala Amb industrial area of Himachal Pradesh in Northern India and will serve over 1,500 consumers. This will be the second out of fourteen projects under the Indian Ministry of power's flagshi ...

Growth in the global membrane chemical market to 2020, will be led by the wastewater sector according to market analyst Future Market Insights (FMI). And desalination was expected to witness the highest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.4% in the global membrane chemicals market between 2014 and 2020. Growth will be fired by demand for process water among end-users such as the municipal, power, food ...

Emerson Process Management has launched Energy Advisor, a real-time energy management information system that automates the process of monitoring and managing energy consumption across mills, plants, and refineries. With real-time, meaningful information about a site's energy performance, process manufacturers can identify inefficiencies and irregularities and take corrective action, saving on average 5 to ...

European industry group EU ProSun requested the benchmark review. The group said the number of Chinese companies reporting data to be included in the benchmark has “increased significantly” since early 2014 and the prices provided by these businesses “have historically been lower than prices reported by other companies,” according to the commission. “The sufficient evidence submitted by the applicant sugges ...

Nepal's investment board on Monday cleared China's Three Gorges International Corp to build a long-delayed $1.6 billion new hydropower project, the single biggest foreign investment in the Himalayan country. A Nepal parliamentary panel first approved the project in 2012 but state-owned Three Gorges had been waiting for the investment board's clearance. The project is forecast for completion by 2021-22 and o ...

AFC Executes Heads of Agreement with Bangkok Industrial Gas for 10MW of Fuel Cell Development in Thailand AFC Energy plc (AFC.L), the industrial fuel cell power company, is pleased to announce it has executed its first Heads of Agreement in Thailand to initiate a programme of commercial fuel cell deployment with a leading Thai industrial gas company, Bangkok Industrial Gas Co. Ltd (“BIG”). Highlights Initia ...

More companies have filed applications with the Energy Department to develop new wind power projects in Ilocos Norte province, which is already home to three major wind farms. Energy Development Corp., owner of the 150-megawatt Burgos wind project, currently the country’s largest wind facility, has four other pending applications to develop wind projects in the province, according to data from the Energy De ...

Utilities company Singapore Power (SP) and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) will set aside S$30 million over the next five years to develop solutions for meeting the Republic's future energy needs. The S$30 million, a co-investment by both parties, will be used by a new Centre of Excellence for Energy Development and Piloting launched by SP on Thursday (Apr 2). The centre will drive efforts to ...

Japan's ruling party on Tuesday urged the government to push for a return to nuclear power in deliberations on the best energy mix, which is likely to be opposed by a public wary about atomic energy in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in 2011. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) said the government should boost stable "baseload" energy supplies - nuclear, coal, hydroelectric and geo ...

A SUBSIDIARY of listed Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. has formally inaugurated a 54-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Guimaras Island. Trans-Asia Renewable Energy Corp. (TAREC) said in a statement over the weekend that it held a dedication ceremony for the San Lorenzo wind farm, marking the plant’s third month of commercial operations. The ceremony last Friday also served as the official introduction ...