Five of the six top scientists in charge of monitoring the health of Sydney's water have had their positions axed as part of state government cuts experts warn will compromise the safety of drinking water. The loss of top scientific expertise is part of deep staff cuts of up to 25 per cent in the agency created to ensure the safety of Sydney's water catchment after the city's drinking water crisis in 1998. ...

Japan’s nuclear power-reliant utility Kansai Electric Power said on Saturday it had found a pool of contaminated water at a nuclear reactor slated to restart in late February after years of being shut down. In a statement posted on its website, Kansai Electric said it has found 34 litres of radioactive water at the No. 4 unit at its Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui prefecture, 500 km west of Tokyo. The water ...

Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) said on Sunday that the nation will still have an electricity reserve margin of 12.5 percent to maintain a stable power supply, after Unit 1 of the Linkou Thermal Power Plant in New Taipei begins commercial operation this summer as expected. Taipower was responding to media reports that Taiwan may face a high risk of power outages this summer due to the postponement of two po ...

ABB has won an order from SP PowerGrid to supply four 66 kilovolt (kV) gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) substations for the city-state of Singapore. The project is part of SP PowerGrid’s continuous efforts to strengthen the efficiency and reliability of its transmission and distribution networks and to meet the growing demand for power in Singapore’s industrial, commercial and residential sectors. As part of ...

The Enterprise Bureau of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, has completed two photovoltaic (PV) arrays totalling 6.6 MW at dams in the region, as announced on its website last week. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for both systems were provided by a joint venture (JV) between domestic sector players Sanwa Electrical Engineering Co Ltd and Novac Co Ltd. Deployed on the levees of two dams, ...

The Nepalese government on Thursday formulated plan of action aimed at ending the power shortage in the country within a couple of years by harnessing solar and wind energy apart from stepping up hydro-electricity generation. The meeting of the council of ministers endorsed the action plan on ending the energy crisis period within two years, according to cabinet sources. The meeting held at the residence of ...

APGenco has been producing 150 million units of power as against the installed capacity of 170 million units at present. The chairman and managing director (CMD) of the organisation, Mr Vijayanand, revealed this during a visit to APGenco unit at Nelaturu, which is going to be dedicated to the nation by the Chief Minister on February 27 in Muttukur mandal of SPSR Nellore district on Thursday. Speaking to med ...

Eight years after India and the US signed a pact to collaborate in civil nuclear energy, US companies are evincing interest in entering the Indian market worth an estimated $150 billion. According to a person familiar with the development, who did not want to be named, Westinghouse Electric Co. Llc is among several companies lining up not only to enter the Indian market but also to increase the number of po ...

Through the acquisition of a majority ownership of Viet Hydro Pte. Ltd., Southeast Asian independent power producer, Nexif Energy, today announced it has acquired controlling interest in the 30-MW Coc San hydropower project on the Ngoi Dum Stream, located in Lao Cai Province, Northern Vietnam. Coc San is a run-of-river project in the final stages of development and is expected to begin generating power in M ...

Indian wind turbine maker Inox Wind Ltd (BOM:539083) said Tuesday it will deliver 100 MW of its machines for a project in Gujarat state under a repeat order from Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd (TPREL). The project at Rojmal is TPREL’s fourth one with Inox Wind. Before it, the wholly-owned unit of Tata Power Co Ltd (BOM:500400) had ordered over 300 MW of wind turbines from the firm. As part of the new turnk ...