Vestas and partners CWP Energy Asia and InterContinental Energy have announced plans to build a 6,000-megawatt wind and solar hybrid power plant in East Pilbara region, Western Australia. The project, known as Asian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH), will feature 4,000 MW of wind and 2,000 MW of solar generation. It also includes two subsea power cables from Australia to Jakarta, Indonesia and Singapore. The proj ...

Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENPH), a global energy technology company and the world’s leading provider of solar microinverters, announced today that its installation partner, RenXSol Ecotech has installed Enphase microinverters in a one megawatt solar plant. Located near Bangalore, India, the solar plant is Enphase’s largest installation in the Asia-Pacific region and one of its largest globally. Occupying ...

The International Hydropower Association (IHA) has launched a new online resource for hydropower developers, researchers and operating companies seeking to improve sediment management in reservoirs. The Hydropower Sediment Management Knowledge Hub presents a range of strategies and resources, including 18 case studies from 15 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Central and South America and the Pacific. Sedi ...

Rolls-Royce has supplied a Chinese data center with backup, emergency power supply consisting of ten 20-cylinder MTU Series 4000 engines. The data center is operated by internet service provider Sinnet and is located in the east Beijing. Sinnet has 1,220 server cabinets on an area of over 11,000 square metres, which have to be protected in the event of power failure. The emergency power supply has been purc ...

Is Lithium Ion (Li-ion) a suitable replacement battery solution for your 3 phase Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) System? We have received inquiries from our customers regarding possible conversion of their current VRLA or wet cell battery solutions to Li-ion for their UPS systems. Of course, when Li-ion batteries are positioned to deliver a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) as compared to VRLA batterie ...

5B – the Australian solar plant innovators who are revolutionising the way the solar industry thinks about PV installations – has announced plans to set up a production facility in Adelaide, and is even looking at a “gigawatt” production line in Asia. The company was established two years ago by some young engineers who used to work at Infigen Energy, and it specialises in a unique rapid installation, fully ...

A new report says Thailand can enjoy a ‘complete economic transformation’ by integrating more renewable energy. Produced by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Ministry of Energy of Thailand, the paper points to potential savings for the country of over US$9 billion annually by 2036. To achieve this, and 37% clean power in its energy mix by 2036 – a quarter higher than current targets, ...

Vestas is part of team planning to develop an up to 6GW wind and solar hybrid plant in Australia that would export electricity to Indonesia via an undersea cable. The Asian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH), which is proposed for Western Australia’s East Pilbara region, is being developed by the Danish company, CWP Energy Asia and InterContinental Energy. The partners said onshore and offshore development studies ...

South Asia's ambitious plans to meet its climate targets under the Paris Agreement represent $3.4 trillion worth of investment opportunities in cities and infrastructure by 2030, according to Climate Investment Opportunities in South Asia, a new report by IFC released today by IFC, a member of the World Bank Group. Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, which represent 7.38 percent of glo ...

In May 2017, a number of memoranda of understanding were signed between China and Pakistan to construct several hydropower projects along the Indus River. The projects, known as the North Indus Cascade, include the development of five hydropower projects with a cumulative hydropower generation of 22 thousand megawatts. As a part of its regional investment, China pledged US$50 billion to the North Indus Casc ...