Myanmar plans to give the green light to three of six hydroelectric projects to begin construction on the Thanlwin River within three months, a high-ranking official at the Ministry of Electric Power said on August 16. “We plan to build six hydropower projects on the Thanlwin River,” said the official who asked not to be named. “Feasibility studies on three of the projects have already been completed, but w ...

Renewable power producer Green Infra Ltd has acquired a majority stake in TVS Energy Ltd, a subsidiary of TV Motor Co., for an undisclosed amount. TVS Motor is selling 73.5 million shares constituting 90.46% of its stake in TVS Energy. Consequently, TVS Energy and its two units,TVS Wind Power Ltd and TVS Wind Energy Ltd, will cease to be subsidiaries of the company from Friday. This is the second acquisitio ...

India's Himacal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (HPPCL) has announced plans to commission more than 1,000 MW-worth of hydropower projects in the next three years, Asian news sources have reported. The announcement comes after Germany announced a US$268.4 million loan for HPPCL's 191-MW Thana Plaun hydroelectric plant earlier this month via its development bank, Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW), as par ...

Indian water company Deccan Water Treatment has secured an INR3.7bn ($62m) order to develop a 31MW solar power station from Kenyan Piedmont Investments. The project is slated for commission for August 2014, and adds to Deccan’s other solar projects, including a 50MW venture in the UAE and a 10MW farm in India, both due to become operational before the end of the year. Company founder Anirban Sarkar told Ind ...

The most powerful generator-turbine unit ever built by Voith has entered service in the Xiluodu hydropower plant on the Jinsha River in China. After a successful 72-hour test run, Voith handed over the first of a total of three machines to the customer, China Three Gorges Corporation. With 784MW, the output of the generator-turbine unit in Xiluodu is higher than that of the world's largest hydropower plants ...

The SET-listed Ch. Karnchang Plc (CK), Thailand’s third-largest contractor by market value, has signed a contract with the Laotian government to develop the 20-billion-baht Nam Bak hydroelectric power plant. Construction costs are estimated at 17 billion baht, said chief executive Plew Trivisvavet in a statement. ‘‘We are working full-speed on finalising the power purchase agreement and construction contrac ...

The strategic water storage project in Jeddah will be launched in the second quarter of 2014, said the National Water Company (NWC). The project is the first of its kind in the city to solve the problem of the increasing demand for water. NWC aims to find radical solutions to the challenges facing the water sector and the environmental treatment in general. Louay Al-Musalam, CEO of the company, said during ...

When Honda starts testing cars at its new test track in Sakura, Japan, its test models will zoom by where it's building a new 10 megawatt solar farm. The company plans to sell the electricity from the project starting in 2015. The project is likely the largest solar project for a carmaker to date. While other car companies, including Ford, General Motors and Volkswagen have solar installations in the U.S. o ...

Creating a high-tech power grid isn’t just about information and communications technology, data-crunching software and other such digital technologies. Sometimes the innovations can be hidden inside the power lines themselves. CTC Global is hoping that its new partnership with one of China’s biggest grid players will help push its own transmission technology into what’s set to become the world’s biggest po ...

State utility NTPC will seek another 4 million tonnes of thermal coal shipments in this financial year, following its current tender to import 5 million tonnes of the dry fuel to bridge an expected shortfall in local supplies. NTPC, India's top power producer with an installed capacity of 41,184 megawatts, has an annual import need of 16 million tonnes of coal in the year to March 2014, up 65 percent from a ...