India promised to protect key industries from the full impact of higher gas prices last week, taking the shine off a reform which may bring in more investment to the gas sector but could hike costs for consumers by around 50 percent from next year. Asia's third-largest economy took the unpopular step of approving a gas hike for the first time in three years on Thursday to encourage investment in domestic ou ...

[wpdm_file id=9] This whitepaper takes time to visit Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand's impressive North Bangkok Power Plant in the Nonthaburi region.  The article is compiled with the Head of Chemical and Environmental Sector Mr. Jennarong Termthanam who explains the current systems in place to ease the day to day operational challenges they have with producing and treating water for the HRSG. ...

Lesser-developed countries — with limited, inefficient, or ageing power plants, and significant supply gaps — like Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Laos, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Uzbekistan, should be supported for interventions that could focus on priorities for reducing line losses; installing proper metering, billing, and collection systems; and improving the efficiency of power plants, according ...

Around the world, governments and businesses are constantly being called upon to make big investments in solar, wind, and geothermal energy, as well as biofuels. But, in the US, unlike in Europe and Asia, discussion of hydrogen energy and fuel cells as systemic, game-changing technologies is largely absent. That needs to change: these clean, renewable energy sources promise not only zero-emission baseload p ...

Sharp Corp., a Japanese solar panel maker, is considering building a 38-megawatt solar power station in northern Japan. The plant may be built in Tomakomai city, Hokkaido, Miyuki Nakayama, a Sharp spokeswoman, said by phone today, declining to confirm details included in a June 29 story in the Nikkei newspaper. No decision has been made on the plant, she said. The station may cost more than 10 billion yen ( ...

The power supply was badly affected in the core Malwa region on Saturday afternoon following the breakdown of all four working units of Guru Hargobind Thermal Power Plant (GHGTPP), Lehra Mohabbat, and two units of Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Power Plant (GNDTPP), Bathinda, following a communication gap between different offices of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL). Bathinda, Mansa and Muktsar di ...

[wpdm_file id=4]   This exciting whitepaper takes a close look at an alternative solution for disposal of hazardous organic compounds in the petroluem industry. ...

As many as 338 hydro-power projects, which theoretically could generate a combined capacity of over 1,000MW of electricity, would be put off. The decision has been jointly made by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and provincial authorities across the country. They also agreed to have another 169 potential projects dropped from consideration. These moves follow a series of recent inspection carried out by ...

Malaysia’s national power utility company, Tenaga Nasional Berhad, plans to upgrade its largest hydropower plant the Sultan Mahmud located in Kenyir, Kuala Berang. T.N.B. has met with the power plant’s original equipment manufacturer partners from Japan, specifically Ebara and Hitachi, for the inspection of Sultan Mahmud’s turbine and transformer units and for the upgrade. T.N.B. will be assessing the overa ...

Origin Energy Ltd. has acquired a power generator from the New South Wales state government for 659 million Australian dollars (US$603 million). Origin, which is Australia's biggest electricity retailer, said it only had to give the government A$50 million cash to buy Eraring Energy. The sum was so low because it had previously paid the government A$609 million back in 2010 to acquire all the generator's po ...