Meyer Burger Technology Ltd. sees indications of a recovery in the solar photovoltaic market and has successfully concluded strategic contracts for advanced diamond wire slicing technologies and PV module production and testing technologies with new customers in the Asian market. The orders have a combined value of over USD 23.5 million, the company reports. Meyer Burger announced the successful signing of ...

An aging nuclear power plant in Taiwan has been leaking radioactive wastewater for three and half years, according to a report released by the government’s watchdog this week. The report by Control Yuan said spent fuel rod storage pools at the have leaked since December 2009. The pools of the two reactors leaked 15,370 milliliters and 4,830 milliliters respectively, it said. Radioactive materials such as Ca ...

IDE Technologies is to install its Progreen™ desalination system - the fourth installation worldwide - at a five‑star island resort on Australia's Great Barrier Reef to replace an existing thermal desalination plant. The company announced on 6 August 2013 that Mulpha Australia, the owner of Hayman Island resort in Queensland, had selected IDE to provide high‑quality desalinated water to the island resort. M ...

India's state-owned hydropower developer NHPC Ltd. seeks proposals to form joint ventures with independent power producers who have been allocated prospective hydropower projects by Indian states. Documents may be obtained until August 26, with responses due October 14. NHPC has extensive experience developing large hydropower projects on its own and with state-owned developers. Its recent activity includes ...

Silicon Labs has announced it is providing sub-GHz wireless connectivity technology to Robulink, a supplier of advanced metering infrastructure solutions to utility companies in China, Southeast Asia and Australia. Robulink's RobuNet mesh network products, such as the RDDMRE4 meter communication unit and the RCJP242R wireless data collector, will integrate Silicon Labs' EZRadioPRO transceivers. “Silicon Lab ...

Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., China’s largest turbine maker by revenue, will provide 55 megawatts of equipment for a wind farm in Panama. A joint venture of Goldwind and Spain’s Union Eolica Espanola SL received $71 million in loans to develop the first phase of the Penonome wind farm, the Urumqi, China-based company said today in a statement. Banco Internacional de Costa Rica SA and Banco ...

Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power, which bagged three of the four ultra-mega power projects (UMPPs) in the country due to aggressive bidding , is now seeking tariff increase for all of its plants. The company is learnt to have approached the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to revise the tariff of TilayiaUMPP inJharkhand to Rs 2.25 per unit, more than 25% increase from its original bid price of ...

The companies announced that First Solar will acquire General Electric Co.'s technology for making thin film panels. In return, GE will receive 1.75 million shares of First Solar stock. That represents US$82 million, and 2 percent of First Solar's outstanding shares. First Solar is the world's largest producer of thin-film panels and among the world's largest solar farm developers. GE's thin-film technology ...

Tapping into enormous Nepal’s enormous hydropower potential just got a boost with the government today accepting a $37 million World Bank loan for a power transmission and trade project with India. Finance Minister Shanker Prasad Koirala will sign the loan agreement with the Bank soon, government spokesperson Nepal Madhav Poudel said after the cabinet nod. The India-Nepal Electricity Transmission and Trade ...

Japanese Government officials declared that Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) will most likely receive support from state funds in order to deal with the worsening crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant 220 kilometers (130 miles) northeast of Tokyo. The radioactive water leaks at the nuclear plant that was critically hit by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011 reached the emergency level in the last few days. Ja ...