A critically endangered species of orangutan which lives in one forest in Indonesia is in danger of rapid extinction after a court ruled construction of a new hydro-electric dam can go ahead, despite a legal challenge by environmental groups. The Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) was discovered by scientists in 2017, and just 800 individuals are believed to exist, making it the rarest great ape speci ...

 Ayana Renewable Power Pvt Ltd will receive USD 330 million (EUR 290.4m) in funding from CDC Group plc and two new investors -- EverSource Capital and the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund of India (NIIF). The announcement came on Thursday and follows earlier reports in Indian media that EverSource Capital was to infuse about USD 100 million in Ayana. Founded by CDC, the UK's development fina ...

This June, Shimadzu will bring its broad range of analytical instruments and process control systems to LAOWATER 2019 –Laos’ No.1 International Water and Wastewater Technology Show. Held at the National Convention Centre, Vientiane from 20-22 June 2019, Shimadzu will be joining 200 other companies and brands including Design 103 International, Hungarian Water Lao Project Consortium, Franklin Electric (SEA) ...

MAN Energy Solutions has announced the introduction of its new digital platform. MAN CEON intelligently collects and evaluates operating and sensor data, and enables the real-time monitoring of marine or power-plant engines, turbines and compressors. The new digital platform integrates data and information from MAN machinery and its operational environment, and uses intelligent analysis tools for evaluation ...

 Ingeteam Power Technology, an independent global supplier of electrical conversion equipment, announced today that it contracted over 4GW of wind energy converters globally in 2018. With a total of 45GW installed capacity to date, the company remains the unchallenged number one supplier of wind power converters in the world. The Ingeteam Group closed the year with a 15% increase in turnover compa ...

A new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in Brussels, says that to accelerate low-cost renewables in the power sector, countries will need innovative technology tools which enable them to benefit from renewable scale-ups.  The report, Innovation for a Renewable-Powered Future, mapped 30 key innovations and 11 solutions in the variable renewable energy (VRE) landscape exp ...

A silver lining of global warming is that it is forcing every nation to rethink its future, to open its mind to new possibilities. The latest IPCC report gives the world only 12 years to radically cut greenhouse gas emissions or condemn future generations to climate change catastrophe. There is no choice but to act. For developed and developing countries alike, this shatters old certainties of for ...

ADB’s financing of Thailand’s first solar and wind generation plants has led to the increased deployment of renewable energy capacity, including distributed generation. ADB’s financing of Thailand’s first solar and wind generation plants has led to the increased deployment of renewable energy capacity, including distributed generation. Thailand’s next phase of growth requires a new paradigm for the power se ...

InfraCo Asia Development Pte. Ltd (InfraCo Asia), a company of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), is hoping to open up future private sector investment in small hydropower projects in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Province of Pakistan following the signing of an agreement to develop four new hydropower schemes in the region. InfraCo Asia has entered into the Joint Investment and Development ...

More than a third (34%) of businesses now use IoT, and that 70% of these adopters have moved beyond pilot stage and 95% of adopters are seeing the benefits of investment in this technology as it moves into the mainstream, according to the findings of Vodafone’s latest IoT Barometer. While use cases for IoT are varied, ranging from medical exoskeletons to connected tyres, the research has ...