AquaSure Pty Ltd. said today that it’s to begin refinancing A$3.7 billion ($3.4 billion) in bank debt for its desalination plant in Australia’s Victoria state that was completed last year. The announcement confirms a July 12 report citing three people familiar with the matter that the builder of Australia’s largest desalination plant in Wonthaggi near Melbourne, which converts seawater to drinking water, wo ...

Japanese home building company Sekisui House has announced plan to develop a 25.8-megawatt solar power plant on a former golf course in Kagoshima prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu. The new renewable energy plant will ccost about $92 million to build and supply enough energy to power approximately 7,900 homes. Electricity generated from the installation will be integrated into Japan's national ener ...

The Weather Philippines Foundation has turned over an automatic weather equipment to SN Aboitiz Power Magat. WPF general manager Celso Caballero made the presentation to SN Aboitiz Vice President for Corporate Services Mike Hosillos here last July 23 during the media day. Caballero said the unit is a stand-alone system designed to monitor temperature, wind velocity, rainfall volume and humidity. Weather Phi ...

The geothermal power plant in Apas Kiri here is scheduled to come onstream in 2016, said Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Dr Maximus Ongkili. He said the project on a 12 square kilometre site being undertaken by Tawau Green Energy Sdn Bhd (TGE) was at the site preparation stage would be able to generate 30MW of electricity when completed. “This project is a good example of innovation in green ene ...

“Batteries are a little bit like bacon. Everything is better with batteries,” quipped Michelle Taylor of Queensland utility Ergon Energy at session on energy storage at Clean Energy Week in Brisbane. “There’s no doubt that storage linked with the appropriate interface mechanism presents fantastic opportunities for the customer and utility,” the utility’s technology development manager added more formally. Y ...

Reliance Power on Monday said its 45-MW wind power project at Vashpet in Maharashtra has commenced operations. The Anil Ambani-led company is already operating a 40 MW solar PV project in Rajasthan and with the commissioning of the 45 MW wind power capacity, its operating renewable capacity has doubled to 85 MW, a company statement said. “We are committed to increasing our clean and green footprint by addin ...

Uganda has awarded a Chinese firm a contract to build a new dam and power plant on the Nile, a senior government official told Reuters on Monday, the second such project to go to China in less than two months. China, as elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, has rapidly expanded its investment in Uganda in recent years, snapping up major government contracts often after extending cheap credit. The latest 188-mega ...

Thailand has doubled its commitment to solar energy investments by 50 percent, pledging to get 25 percent of the country’s total energy demand from renewable sources. The Asian country ranks among a handful of emerging solar markets that are gaining major momentum in the solar industry. As some long-established markets such as Europe slow down, India, Latin America, Africa and other parts of the world are e ...

State-owned listed coal miner PT Bukit Asam (PTBA) is planning power plant projects in Myanmar with an estimated initial investment of US$320 million. PTBA president director Milawarma said on Friday that his company had found a local private partner in Myanmar to develop the power plants. He declined to name the partner. “We have reached discussions at the level of board of directors, including about how t ...

The Indian state of Maharashtra will soon have a new solar plant with a total installed capacity of 28.8MW. The plant will be spread over 130 acres of land and will be developed by Tata Power’s Renewable Energy division. The group’s distribution arm has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to buy electricity from the solar plant. The news follows the energy giant’s aim to add 250MW of renewable e ...