A private consultant believes an undersea cable to export solar power from the North West to Indonesia is financially viable even with its likely $6 billion to $10 billion construction cost. Geoff James, a consultant hired by Pilbara Development Commission, toldWestBusiness the ambitious subsea cable project would establish an underwater link to transport solar power from the Pilbara and Kimberley to Java i ...

Cross-border water projects do exist and can be successful in South Asia, despite the region's political and economic differences. We take a closer look at the latest research offering from Chatham House which outlines how to make cross-border collaboration work. South Asia is one of the least integrated regions of the world when it comes to sharing water. According to Gareth Price, Senior Research Fellow a ...

Rida Mulyana Director General for New and Renewable Energy & Energy Conservation Looking at Indonesia’s key priorities within the renewable energy sector, Rida Mulyana, Director General for New and Renewable Energy & Energy Conservation (NREEC), also looks at the nation’s development progress, particularly towards ensuring energy security and essential infrastructure. How would you assess so far the ...

China’s grid-connected wind power capacity continued to pick up, but the utilisation rate was waning after years of capacity expansion, the latest data from the National Energy Administration (NEA) showed. China’s total installed capacity of wind power generation facilities connected to the power grid reached 139 million kilowatts by the end of September, up 28 per cent from a year earlier, according to the ...

German tidal energy company Schottel Hydro has installed a SIT 250 turbine at Bintuni Bay in Indonesia. Schottel has partnered with Green Forest Product & Tech, PT Bintuni Utama Murni Wood Industries, OceanPixel, Aquatera and the Energy Research Institute at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University on the project. The turbine is suspended below a floating barge and supplies power to a wood chip fact ...

The government has reiterated its commitment to develop renewable energy as the country’s proven oil reserves of 3.8 billion barrels are only enough to meet national consumption for just over a decade. Indonesia has abundant energy resources, from hydropower to solar energy. The country is even estimated to have 28 gigawatts (GW) of geothermal potential and 75 GW of hydropower potential, almost twice the co ...

Irish outfit OpenHydro and Indonesian company PT Air have signed a memorandum of understanding that aims to drive forward the development of tidal energy in the south-east Asian country. The MoU was signed at the Indonesia Infrastructure Week conference and exhibition 2016 on 8 November. OpenHydro is part of the DCNS group. A 2MW OpenHydro open-centre turbine was deployed at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre ...

Hioki announced the launch of the WPT* Evaluation System TS2400. The system is used to evaluate the transmission efficiency of wireless power transmission equipment, which is expected to see use in an expanding array of applications in the future. Until now, such evaluations have been conducted by hand, posing issues from the standpoint of measurement reproducibility as well as efficiency. By fully automati ...

Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, announced today that it has launched "Light It Up", its programme to bring access to electricity to rural communities across the Asia Pacific region. Schneider Electric believes that access to energy is a basic human right, and it is committed to putting safe, reliable, efficient and sustainable energy within reach of a great man ...

Drake & Scull International, an engineering, construction and procurement company announced on Tuesday that Passavant Energy & Environment, its wholly-owned German subsidiary, has secured three contracts to build wastewater treatment plants in New Delhi and Bengaluru in India as well as Gaza in Palestine for a combined value of Dh246 million. Passavant company will undertake the engineering, procure ...