AHMEDABAD: Gujarat's solar dreams are getting bigger. After setting up Asia's largest 500 MW solar park at Charnka village in Patan, the state government plans to set up an even bigger solar park with an estimated capacity of 750 MW in Vav taluka of Banaskantha district. Government sources said that a formal proposal has already been forwarded to the union ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE). Over 1 ...

The upcoming Jurong Lake District is set to become the most futuristic part of Singapore in the years to come, as the Government has designated the district as a test bed for Smart Nation projects. The district is where more than 20 companies, including some tech giants, are testing out their innovations on a greater scale than ever before in Singapore. One of the companies involved is local energy startup ...

SBSS has successfully completed the installation and burial of two subsea power cables connecting Margarita Island to Chacopata on the Venezuelan mainland.   With SBSS already recognized in the industry as one of Asia’s leading subsea cable solutions provider, this milestone project was their first to be executed in Latin America.   To achieve the project’s goals, SBSS took the cable installation ...

The Energy Regulatory Commission has allowed PetroWind Energy Inc. to start operating the first eight wind turbines of the 50-megawatt Nabas wind power project in Aklan province in January. ERC said it approved the commissioning tests for the first eight wind turbines, as a part of phase 1 of the project for two months from Jan. 17 to March 17, 2015. The approval would bring the 50-MW Nabas wind power proje ...

The government and nuclear plant operators remain on high alert with a hacker, possibly linked to North Korea, threatening to disrupt operations at nuclear facilities in the nation. Suspicions about North Korea's involvement arose as prosecutors confirmed that the hacker had been using IP addresses in Shenyeng, China, which is used as a base by an unknown number of North Korean hackers. But when asked about ...

Cummins Power Generation (CPG), via its distributor Cummins DKSH (Vietnam) LLC (CDV), has signed partnerships with two leading local companies in Vietnam in a determined move to increase its market share and secure business growth in the South East Asian nation. Vietnam is a priority market for CPG in Asia Pacific and the company is focused on expanding its channels to bring the brand and products closer to ...

After the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced recently that electricity subsides will be given to local residents in January next year, some officials have voiced their disapproval of the policy. As oil prices come down, a total of NT$9 billion will be saved, the government said. The newly appointed Economics Minister (鄧振中) said a utility subsidy plan will be finalized before Jan. 1, 2015. Up to 1,291 ho ...

The Iranian Energy Ministry announced that the country's hydroelectric power plants have generated over 11.5 million mw since March showing nearly 1.9 per cent of growth in comparison with the same period last year. Iran has increased the output capacity of its hydroelectric power plants by 1.9 per cent since the beginning of current Iranian calendar year (March 21), Fars news agency reported. Hydroelectric ...

The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued guidelines to set up 100 MW solar power capacity (PDF) over and along the canals in the country. The program will see solar photovoltaic power projects of capacity 1 to 10 MW installed over canals and on the banks of the canals in India. The total cost of the program will be around $160 million, out of which about $38 million will be provided as f ...

One of four heavily damaged reactor buildings at Japan's tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear power plant has been cleared of radioactive fuel rods, the operator said on Saturday (Dec 20). It was a significant step in the decommissioning efforts, but workers still have three heavily crippled reactors to clean up after they were sent into meltdown in the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster. The overall clean-up work o ...