Beijing plans to install water-permeable bricks for free in 60 residential quarters of approximately 200,000 square meters next year, in order to make use of rainwater. Also, remotely monitored water meters will be installed for major water users, Beijing Times reports. Beijing initiated rainwater utilization projects in 2001, constructing 898 projects in urban areas and 1,000 projects in rural areas by the ...

Opinion piece by BEHNAM TAEBI ACROSS the world, the contentious debate over the future of nuclear power continues apace. In East Asia, for instance, it emerged earlier this month that a nuclear plant in Taiwan may have been leaking radioactive water for three years. Meanwhile, Japan is still struggling to contain radioactive water from Fukushima; and in South Korea prosecutors are conducting a huge investig ...

The National Power Corporation in the southern Philippines has totally shut down the Agus 4 hydro-electric power plant that resulted to rotating brownouts in Mindanao. After Agus 4, the NPC said it would also schedule the Pulangi hydro-electric power plant Number 2 for repair because of damage it took during the typhoon Bopha last year. Lawyer Romero Pacilan, legal counsel and spokesperson of NPC, has told ...

Hitachi, Ltd. today announced that Hitachi will supply steam turbine, generator and boiler for an ultra-super critical coal-fired thermal power plant project in Malaysia. This 1,000-MW plant is being constructed under a turn-key order by a consortium made up of Sumitomo Corporation and major South Korean construction company Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd. This order will mark the first time that Hitachi has su ...

Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) has appointed a consortium led by Sumitomo Corp and Daelim Industrial Co Ltd to design, supply, construct and commission a new 1000-megawatt coal fired power plant in Manjung, Perak. The project, known as the Fast Track Project 3A, was awarded to TNB earlier this month. "The new coal fired generation facility is targeted to be operational by Oct 1, 2017,'' TNB said in a short state ...

China is already building, or has approved, more than half of a $100 billion network of high-voltage power lines to connect remote energy producing regions to the east coast, a top official at the state grid firm told Reuters. The project has been controversial with critics arguing the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the world's biggest utility, is betting too much on costly and untested technology ...

ENERGY bills are set to continue to rise as the nation's largest electricity retailer's boss says the industry can no longer afford the widespread discounting of recent years. Origin Energy chief executive Grant King said customers had done well out of the discounting, despite the fact electricity bills have already grown. Rising bills have not benefitted the energy providers, with Origin's underlying profi ...

Argentina's government on Wednesday awarded a contract worth billions of dollars for the construction of two hydroelectric dams to a consortium led by China Gezhouba Co. Ltd. The group, which also includes Argentine firms Electroingenieria SA and Hidrocuyo SA, will construct a $4 billion hydroelectric project capable of generating 1,740 megawatts of electricity in the sparsely populated province of Santa Cr ...

The World Bank has agreed to provide US$14 billion for the construction of Pakistan's 4,500-MW Diamer-Bhasha hydropower project, the Kuwait News Agency has reported. Pakistani Minster of Finance Ishaq Dar said in a statement that the country was able to secure the financing after convincing the bank that it is not legally necessary to seek a no-obligation certificate from neighboring India. The World Bank h ...

Papua New Guinea plans to buy electricity from Indonesia`s province of Papua to cover shortage in power supply in PNG province of Vanimo across the border. Vanimo will buy 2 megawatts of electricity from a power plant to be built with a capacity of 2x10 MW in Papua, Indonesian Consul in Vanimo, Jahar Gultom said. “The two countries, PNG and Indonesia have signed a cooperation agreement on the purchase of po ...