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 ...

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) has signed a joint research agreement on new combustion / measurement technology for gas turbines with Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO). The two companies aim to develop new combustion technology that can use low calorific value fuel efficiently, in preparation for the introduction of low calorific value gases. Kim Doo-Young, head of KEPCO's research center, a ...

The Canberra economy is again the winner, with more than $100 million dollars in economic benefits flowing from the final successful proponent of the ACT Government’s second wind auction, Minister for the Environment and Climate Change Simon Corbell announced today. Sapphire Wind Farm in northern New South Wales, to be developed by CWP Renewables, is the fifth successful wind energy project from the ACT’s t ...

WITH the inauguration of the 132.5-megawatt (MW) solar power plant at Barangay Tinampaan in Cadiz City on Thursday, March 3, Negros Occidental would no longer be a power beggar, and could even export power to other provinces, provincial officials said. Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr. said the P10-billion solar farm situated on a 176-hectare lot in Cadiz will be the largest in Southeast Asia and seventh largest ...

Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN) has drawn up a plan to ensure that power supply will meet the anticipated surge in demand during the dry season this year. EVN plans to complete 351 electricity works of 110 kV to 500 kV with a total power line length of 4,800 kilometres across the nation. The dry season, which starts from April to June, is usually a peak time for power consumption. According to a report from E ...

Japanese nuclear waste management specialist Masako Sawai yesterday identified flaws in Taiwan Power Co’s (Taipower) nuclear waste management, describing the contingent measures at the Guosheng Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Wanli District (萬里) and a radioactive waste repository on Orchid Island (Lanyu, 蘭嶼) in Taitung County as “ill-planned and careless.” Sawai, a member of Japan’s Citizens’ Nucle ...