Melbourne’s low-income households will be hardest hit by water price hikes of up to $222, the state's peak welfare body says. Water bills across Melbourne will rise an average 22.4 per cent, plus inflation, from Monday, mostly to cover the cost of Victoria's desalination plant. The increase, however, is less than original proposals from water retailers, who wanted increases of between $269 and $355. The Vic ...

Farmers in Fukushima Prefecture are turning to "solar sharing," a process in which they can generate solar power on the same land where they grow crops and sell the power to utilities. The farmers are hoping to sell the power to help cover the losses they are suffering because of the nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. To help farmers recover from the effects of ...

Residents have had a sneaking suspicion about it for a while, but it's now official: Metrowater has been supplying only about 75% of the water it says it distributes to the city for the last month. For the first time since a failed monsoon triggered a water crisis, Metrowater officials-who have been maintaining that the usual 831 million litres of water a day was being supplied to the city-admitted that the ...

Eyre Peninsula could get its desalinated water from Adelaide, according to members of the Port Lincoln Liberal Party branch. Vice president Brad Flaherty has contacted the state and federal governments suggesting a marine pipeline be constructed to bring fresh water from the mothballed Adelaide desalination plant across Gulf St Vincent to Yorke Peninsula, and then across Spencer Gulf to Eyre Peninsula. Memb ...

PUB and the United States' Environmental Protection Agency will work together on safe drinking water research, watershed management, R&D for innovative water and wastewater treatment, water reuse, and other areas of mutual interest. Singapore's national water agency PUB and the United States' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will work together on safe drinking water research, watershed management, ...

Electricity Generating Public Company Limited, or EGCO Group, Thailand’s first Independent Power Producer has an established track record of successfully expanding its power generation portfolio in markets outside of Thailand. The Company announced its successful investment in the 113MW “” in the State of New South Wales, Australia, via the acquisition of a 100 percent equity interest in Asia Pacific Renewa ...

The state power company in the Indian state of Bihar has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for the development of 100 MW of grid-tied solar photovoltaic (PV) projects. Bihar State Power Holding Company Ltd. (Patna, India) will offer 25-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) to winning bidders. Developers may submit proposals through July 1st, 2013 at 1 PM. Developers must post an INR 2 lakh (USD 3,300) pl ...

Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Sinovelsaid it plans to raise more than $500m through an initial public offering (IPO) and list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, according to reports. The company, which recently completed its Shanghai Donghai Bridge 102MW offshore wind power demonstration project, hopes to raise $513m when it goes public. Sinovel manufactured and erected more than 1400MW of 1.5MW wind turbi ...

Tata Power has commissioned a 1 MW geothermal pilot plant in Australia. The Australian geothermal project will be under Geodynamics Ltd., of which Tata Power is an associate participant. Geodynamics has geothermal exploration interests in three Australian states, including 2000 square kilometers in the Cooper Basin. The Cooper Basin is said to contain the hottest granites on earth and has an estimated therm ...

India's Tata Power has announced the financial closure for its 134MW Amakhala Emoyeni wind farm project through its South African joint venture company with Exxaro – Cennergi. The company was selected as the preferred bidder for the Amakhala wind farm project and the 95MW Tsitsikamma wind farm project by the South African government's department of energy in 2012. Cennergi has successfully tied up the entir ...