Greenko Group and overseas electric utilities are in separate talks with Equis Pte Ltd to acquire its Indian hydroelectric assets valued at around Rs 2,700 crore, two people aware of the development said. Discussions to buy Equis’s Hydreq hydropower platform come against the backdrop of sovereign wealth funds Singapore’s GIC Holdings Pte Ltd and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) investing a total of aro ...

A common bacterium that lives in the human gut and can sometimes cause nasty stomach upsets can be used for good, scientists from the University of British Columbia have discovered. In what may well be a first for the solar industry, they genetically engineered a culture of E. coli to make the bacteria produce greater amounts of sun-soaking dye lycopene (the red pigment in tomatoes) and then watched that ly ...

  Media Release – GWE – July 2018 (Attn media including energy and environment, management and sustainability, water and wastewater, food and beverage, agriculture and agribusiness processing, breweries and dairy production, meat, fish, poultry, and processed foods including snack foods, crops, including maize,  potatoes, beets, soybeans, cassava, rice, wheat, fruit including pineapples, energy crop gr ...

EthosEnergy awarded two multi-million dollar subcontracts by Siemens Korea Seoul, KR – EthosEnergy has been awarded two multi-million dollar subcontracts by Siemens Korea (Siemens Ltd Seoul) for work at Taean and Dangjinpower plants. The subcontracts are for a generator stator rewind and upgrade for units 3 and 4 at the Taean Power Plant and Unit 1, 2 and 3 at the Dangjin Power Plant. Lim, HyungJong from Si ...

Solutions such as ride-hailing services, data-driven transit planning, intelligent traffic systems, data-driven disaster risk assessments and smart energy meters, could save lives, add jobs, reduce living costs and curb emissions in cities across Southeast Asia, according to a recent study by McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of the global consulting firm. In the study's findings, released earlier ...

More of the world will run on electricity in the future, but most of the power won’t be clean. That’s the key message from the International Energy Agency’s latest report on investment trends released Tuesday. The Paris-based organization said that electricity generation attracted more capital than oil and natural gas for the second year in a row, but investment in renewables declined and is expected to kee ...

PROINSO collaborates with Joules Power on the First Utility Scale Solar Project in Bangladesh PROINSO, a global leader in the solar energy market has supplied a 28 MWp utility scale project in Bangladesh, the first of its kind in the country. PROINSO UK has been working in partnership with Joules Power Limited (JPL) on a 28 MWp utility scale project, utilising an innovative financing solution from GuarantCo ...

The new owners of Origin Energy’s smart meter business have won the backing of the federal government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation, in the green bank’s first financing of what will be a key technology in an increasingly distributed solar and storage-based energy market. The CEFC said on Tuesday it had committed $35 million of debt finance to the expansion of intelliHUB – a joint venture between Pacifi ...

Minerals Council of Australia executive director of coal Greg Evans said the past 12 months continued to show positive market fundamentals for Australian coal, and the high productivity of the nation's coal companies, proximity to major markets and strong regional economic and population growth would continue to underpin coal exports over the long term. "Coal has historically been Australia's biggest export ...

TOKYO: Japan's government on Tuesday (Jul 3) pledged to modestly boost the amount of energy coming from renewable sources to around a quarter in a new plan that also keeps nuclear power central to the country's policy. The plan aims to have 22-24 per cent of Japan's energy needs met by renewable sources including wind and solar by 2030, a figure critics describe as unambitious based on current levels of aro ...