Japanese trading house Itochu Corp (TYO:8001) said on Friday that alongside its partners it has put into commercial operation a 44.8-MW solar power plant in the prefecture of Oita on the eastern coast of Kyushu. The company owns a 50% stake in the facility, while Kyudenko Corp (TYO:1959) and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co Ltd (TYO:7003) hold 30% and 20% interests, respectively. Together, they provided ...

CHINA HAS embarked on an unprecedented "water diplomacy" mission to alleviate the ongoing drought in Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam by discharging massive quantities of fresh water downstream from one of its dams in its southern region. The emergency water supply from the Chinese Jinghong hydropower station will last one month from March 15 until April 10, marking the first time China has inf ...

Crompton & Greaves on Friday announced that it has bagged a $35 million (Rs.236 crore) order from Indonesia’s government run electricity company PT PLN (Persero). As part of the deal, the Indian electric major will produce and put in place 28 power transformers in the 83.3MVA and 167 MVA range and voltage in the 150kV/500kV range in Indonesia. The delivery will begin from May this year and end in March next ...

Ansaldo Energia Switzerland has been awarded two contracts worth approximately 600 million Euros in total for the supply of major power plant equipment to two large IPP projects. The Ibri 1510 MW CCPP and Sohar III 1710 MW CCPP in the Sultanate of Oman are expected to be commissioned in early 2019. The Ibri and Sohar III CCPP IPP projects are developed by the sponsor consortium of Mitsui & Co. Ltd., ACWA - ...

A safety mechanism triggered by a high level of feed water shut down one of the two reactors in the Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant — or the First Nuclear Power Plant — on Thursday, the Taiwan Power Company (Taipower, 台電) said. The exact cause of the incident is still under investigation, Taipower said, while stressing that there had been no radioactive leak. At 1:10 p.m., the safety mechanism reportedly caused ...

The Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency has declared its solar power project a success, as the renewable energy has helped improve safety in risk-prone areas in the Deep South. Director-General of the Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency, Thammayot Srichuai said the project received 2.2 billion baht in support from the Energy Conservation Promotion Fund between ...

Meeting the constantly increasing energy needs of the country and supplying 24x7 reliable powers to all citizens is a major challenge in India. With rapid growth and increasingly rising energy needs of the domestic and commercial sectors, India is working on several futuristic fronts to find credible solutions to meet its energy needs. Smart Grids are one of the several aspects of the solution. Power utilit ...

State utility Vietnam Electricity group (EVN) said it had signed a contract with a consortium including South Korea's Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co and Japan's Mitsubishi Corp to build a coal-fired power plant. EVN did not give a value for the deal, but sources with knowledge of the matter said it was worth $650 million. The consortium signing the engineering, procurement and construction contra ...

More than 500 delegates from over 50 countries attended the International Water Resources conference in Vientiane, Laos last week focusing on water resources and hydropower development across Asia. The conference centered on the development and engineering of regional hydropower with China, India, Russia, Malaysia and Pakistan boasting some of the largest dams and power plants globally. But environmentalist ...

Hyflux has been awarded a letter of intent for a contract to construct the Ain Sokhna Integrated Water and Power Project in Egypt, it announced in a press release. The environmental solutions firm said the desalination plant, commissioned by the by the General Authority for the Suez Canal Economic Zone, is designed to produce 150,000 cubic metres of water per day. It will feature an on-site 457-megawatt com ...