A Canadian company, Canadian Solar Inc signed a memorandum of understanding with PT Swadaya Prima Utama to build solar power plant in Indonesia. "It is a great momentum because Indonesia also wants solutions for renewable energy," President Director of Swadaya Prima Utama, M Syafrie Syarief said in Jakarta recently. Production of solar module plant will be suffice renewable energy in Indonesia. The plant wi ...

Desalination units to meet increased water capacity needs with lowest energy consumption KADIMA, Israel, August 27, 2013 – IDE Technologies Ltd. today announced that a large private sector company has ordered Multi-Effect Distillation (MED) desalination units to increase the capacity of a desalination plant in Asia. Chosen for its reliability, high efficiency and track record of success, IDE’s MED solution ...

Opinion: By SUDHA MAHALINGAM A decade ago, three Indian companies — Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) — independently announced substantial gas discoveries in the Krishna-Godavari Basin in the Bay of Bengal. For a fuel-starved country, these discoveries were harbingers of hope and optimism. While crude imports would continue ...

Vietnam Oil and Gas Group has secured an agreement with a consortium of four global banks for a $141 million syndicated loan to help finance construction of its $1.67 billion coal-fired power plant project, the state-owned energy company said Thursday. The oil and gas company, known as PetroVietnam, said in a brief statement that it has signed an agreement for the syndicated loan with Citibank NA, the Japan ...

The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-headed Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) has cleared 36 projects worth Rs 1.9 lakh-crore which were stuck across five key infrastructure sectors of power, roads, ports, cement and petroleum. The development would benefit Reliance Power, GMR, Lanco, Essar Power and Jindal Power, among others. The decision covers 28 projects in the power sector alone,   languishing for wa ...

THE ELECTRICITY Generating Authority of Thailand plans to adopt for its four new coal-fired power plants techniques deployed effectively in Japan, to assure the Thai public of minimum environmental impacts. Each of the four new plants will produce 800 megawatts of power. According to Rangsan Athamanolap, Egat's assistant governor for corporate social affairs, coal will remain a major fuel for generating ele ...

The transmission line constructed for importing electricity from India will go for test from August 26, a move aimed to rid Bangladesh of nagging power crisis. “We will start energising the transmission line prior to a full-fledged import of electricity from India,” acting Managing Director of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB), Chowdhury Alamgir Hossain said on Saturday. He said 400 kilovolt trans ...

The continued monopoly of state-owned Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) and the lack of transparency in its price calculations have made the latest increase in power prices unpalatable to both experts and other residents. EVN, which produces 70 percent of the electricity in Vietnam, and is the country’s sole distributor, increased electricity prices by an average of 5 percent on August 1, the fifth hike since 20 ...

China’s leading power cable producer Jiangnan Group Ltd. reported a 6% decline in its first half profit due to lower copper and aluminium prices. Jiangnan Group’s net profit was 149.4 million yuan ($24.2 million) in the first six months, or 0.049 yuan per share, the company told Hong Kong Stock Exchange today. The Group’s revenues in all its product categories dropped as selling prices declined as a result ...

This year’s Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW)will feature a line-up of esteemed speakers including several government leaders and industry captains who will be speaking at the event for the first time. MalaysianMinister for Energy, Green Technology and Water Y.B. Datuk Seri Dr. Maximus Ongkili, Queensland Government Minister for Energy and Water Supply Mark McArdle and the United States Department ...