National Aluminium Company or NALCO has awarded to Suzlon a contract to double its wind energy production capacity to 100.80 MW, the wind energy company said. The project will be capable of providing power to around 27,000 households and reducing “0.10 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum. NALCO which is a public sector enterprise of the Government of India is also Asia’s largest integrated aluminum co ...

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) has received an order for natural-gas-fired gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) power generation system equipment for Lamma Power Station Extension -- Unit 10 (output: 350 megawatts [MW]) to be built in Hong Kong by The Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. (HK Electric). Under the prime contractor on the project, Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), MHPS will supply the main compo ...

Large-scale solar power will inevitably catch up in cost competitiveness with conventional electricity generation in Australia and will "fill the void" as dirty, ageing coal-fired plants are shut down, according to the regional head of the country's biggest solar developer, First Solar. Jack Curtis, Asia Pacific manager for First Solar, AGL Energy's partner at two major new solar ventures in western NSW, sa ...

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced a shortlist of projects approved to progress to the next stage of its $100-million large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) competitive round. ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht said project attracted strong interest the agency has selected 22 high merit projects to proceed to the full application stage with submissions due by 15 June 2016. “The strong intere ...

Asia Clean Capital Ltd. ("ACC"), whose renewable energy solutions help multinational and domestic corporations in China reduce operating costs, decrease carbon footprint, and meet sustainability targets, today announced a US$40 million project finance facility from Goldman Sachs, a global investment bank and active investor in renewable energy. The financing facility will allow ACC to accelerate and expand ...

The Atomic Energy Council yesterday gave permission to Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) to reactivate the second reactor at the Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung County after halting its operation for two months due to a faulty screw bolt. The reactor underwent a regular overhaul from Nov. 9 to Dec. 1, but the discovery of a faulty anchor bolt in the reactor lid prevented the reactor from resuming operati ...

Construction of a 15.5km submarine cable connecting the Cham Islands to the national power grid began on Saturday. The VND485 billion (US$22.7 million) project, which is 85 per cent funded by the State budget, will be built by Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN)'s Central Power Corporation. The project will also include nearly 30km of lines over the island and six transmission stations. Chairman of the central Qu ...

Suzlon Group, one of the world’s leading wind turbine manufacturers, has won an order for building a 197.40 MW wind project in Andhra Pradesh. The financial details of the project were not revealed, but the company said this is not the first contract it has won from the customer. “Suzlon has recently commissioned first wind power project in India of 50.40MW located in Tejuva, Jaisalmer (Rajasthan) for the s ...

Chinese photovoltaics (PV) maker Trina Solar Ltd (NYSE:TSL) said Monday it completed and hooked to the grid three distributed generation (DG) solar arrays with a combined capacity of 27 MW in end-2015. The PV systems were installed on the rooftops of three large factories in Jiangsu province’s city of Suqian. Equipped with 110,000 Trina Solar Honey modules, they are expected to generate some 30 GWh of elect ...

Chinese utility Huadian Power International Corp Ltd (SHA:600027) said Wednesday it has recently hooked to the domestic grid wind and photovoltaic (PV) parks with a combined capacity of 482.9 MW. The company put on stream five wind farms, totalling 279.4 MW, in Shandong province and 149.5 MW in Ningxia Hui autonomous region. Overall, subsidiary Huadian Power International Ningxia New Energy Power Co Ltd ope ...