The power generating arm of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is partnering with one of Thailand's largest electricity producer to build a new coal-fired power plant in Quezon province. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange on Tuesday, Meralco said it authorized Meralco PowerGen Corporation to execute a development and other related agreements with Electricity Generation Public Company Limite ...

A court in Busan on Thursday issued an arrest warrant against Lee Jong-chan, the senior executive vice president of the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. implicated in a snowballing corruption scandal. The court issued the warrant out of concerns that the suspect could destroy evidence or flee, officials said. The prosecution on Tuesday detained the 53-year-old executive and requested a warrant against h ...

The controversial Myitsone dam project in Myanmar's Kachin state has been suspended for over two years now and stop-work costs, amounting to millions of US dollars, are mounting. No resolution seems to be in sight for the China-contracted project. The company, China Power Investment, may be facing losses, but local Myanmar citizens want the government to scrap the development entirely. Things came to a stan ...

State-owned electricity company PT PLN are teaming up with PT Astra Graphia Information Technology (AGIT) on an IT project valued at Rp 21 billion (US$1.94 million), in order to lower operational and maintenance costs for transmissions reaching Rp 2.35 trillion in 2012 and to answer calls for more efficiency. The project, dubbed the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), will be implemented by AGIT on PLN’s tra ...

Intergraph® has released Intergraph Mobile Alert, a new mobile application for crowdsourcing incident information. Intergraph Mobile Alert simplifies reporting for citizens. Cities benefit by enlisting the masses to help define and pinpoint issues, such as road or utility line damage. With crowdsourcing to collect data about city infrastructure growing in popularity, Intergraph’s Mobile Alert allows citizen ...

Nuclear Information Technology (China) Forum 2013 successfully ended up at Aug. 9th in Shanghai Marriot. More than 210 nuclear IT experts in and abroad joined in this international nuclear IT conference. Focused on the development plan of nuclear IT industry, latest R&D progress of nuclear self-reliance software and valuable experience exchange of leading nuclear companies’ information technology develo ...

In a release, Sembcorp announced the expansion of its water business in China’s Liaoning province with two new wastewater treatment projects in industrial parks in Panjin city. The first plant is to start operations by 2015. The first of the agreements will be a joint venture agreement to build, own and operate a new RMB 117.3 million (approximately S$24.3 million) industrial wastewater treatment plant to s ...

Siemens has successfully installed a massive new high voltage DC converter station in the North Sea that will play a crucial role in supply wind energy to more than 500,000 German homes. The HelWin1 offshore platform will be used to convert the alternating current (AC) power generated by two wind farms, Nordsee Ost and Meerwind, into low-loss direct current (DC) for transmission onto the mainland. Transmitt ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co.  has accumulated the largest pool of radioactive water in the history of nuclear accidents. The utility must now decide what to do with it: dump in the ocean, evaporate into the air, or both. The more than 330,000 metric tons of water with varying levels of toxicity is stored in pits, basements and hundreds of tanks at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant. The government said this we ...

Carnegie Wave Energy's shares are set to continue their recent strong run after it signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Water Corporation of Western Australia to support its wave powered desalination pilot plant. The company's shares have more than doubled in just the past two-months. Water Corporation currently produces 45 billion litres of fresh drinking water a year from its existing seawater desalina ...