Gopal Saxena, the chief executive of a power distribution company run by Reliance Infrastructure Ltd, which is controlled by Indian billionaire Anil Ambani, faces a tough choice. He could break a mandate to supply around-the-clock electricity to 1.8 million customers in south and west Delhi, or he could wait for two power utilities to make good on threats to cut off supplies to his company unless they are p ...

Siemens Ltd. has won two contracts aggregating to Rs.144 crore from the Rural Electrification Board, Bangladesh, to construct 38 new 33.11kV substations. The projects are funded by Japan Bank for International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and are to be delivered on a turnkey basis. The substations would be located in the Rajshahi and Barisal zones in western Bangladesh. The projects involve installing new and ...

NTT DoCoMo Inc. will introduce environment-friendly fuel cells at cellphone base stations across the country as emergency power sources in the event of a disaster, company officials said Friday. Among its base stations, just one in Tokyo currently has fuel cells. Japan’s largest mobile phone carrier will select other base stations by the end of this year for the introduction starting in 2014, the officials ...

The South Korean government on Sunday announced plans to encourage the use of energy storing equipment as well as an overhaul of electricity rates in order to prevent possible power shortages. The move follows a series of power shortage warnings, including the year's first level-3 warning, last week. Under its plans, the government will first encourage the use of the so-called energy storage system (ESS) an ...

A prototype of India’s first floating solar power station could soon be coming up in the pond of Victoria Memorial. If the plan proves to be a success, such floating solar power stations could also be set up in the water reservoirs and dams of hydroelectric power stations thereby increasing their output. “Developing a floating solar power station would prove to be a revolutionary step as it could solve the ...

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, today announced that its p-type mono-crystalline silicon ("mono-Si") solar cells, a new family of high-performance solar cells dubbed "PERCIUM," have surpassed 20% conversion efficiency. The newly achieved conversion efficiency, which has been independently confirmed and certified by the Fraunhofe ...

The CNOOC Gas and Power Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC, China's largest offshore oil and gas producer, said that its first floating liquified natural gas (LNG) project has gone through government approval. The floating LNG terminal project, located in north China's Tianjin Municipality, will be the first of its kind to be built in the country, the company said. It said in a statement that it will ...

The Indian government has decided to allot gas from new production areas of Oil and Natural Gas CorporationLtd. (ONGC) and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) to come to the rescue of around 25 power plants, with the stoppage in supply from Reliance Industries Ltd.'s Krishna-Godavarai (KG) D6 field, reports said, quoting a top petroleum ministry official. "We are planning to allot gas from new fields ...

As Japan continues to struggle to contain radioactive water leaking out of its Fukushima nuclear plant following the 2011 meltdown, confidence in atomic energy across much of the world is at a low ebb. The UAE, however, is among the few countries bucking the trend as it advances its bid to become the first Arab nation to safely harness atomic energy for peaceful means on a commercial scale. The country is n ...

Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company Ltd (SECMC), China Power International Holding Ltd (CPIH), and Sino Sindh Resources (Pvt) Ltd (SSR) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop 6000MW of Thar coal based power plants in Sindh. According to the MoU, the parties have reached an intention of jointly developing, within the next 10 years, coal-fired power projects with a total installed net capacity ...