A Chinese Company is coming up with a 50 MW wind energy project in Gharo. This was stated by Vice-President of the HydroChina International Engineering Company Limited, Wang Youngqiang, on Monday. He said that the cost of the project has been estimated at dollars 120 million. Wang who is on a visit to Pakistan, said that the project had been initiated by HydroChina Dawood Power Limited (HDPPL), a jointly in ...

Engineers working on the Xiajiang Hydropower Project have designed a special "fish lane" to prevent migration patterns being affected by a dam on the Ganjiang River. According to the plan, a 3-meter-deep open-air zigzag channel stretching 815 meters will be built into the dam, 155 km from Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province. The zigzag design will reduce the gradient and water velocity, making it easi ...

A 110 MW hydropower project has successfully begun operation in the east district of Sikkim in India. Power generation technology company Alstom has released a statement in which they report the successful synchronization and full load of two 55 MW units at the Chuzachen hydropower plant on April 24, 2013. The two units were officially handed over to Gati Infrastructure who declared the start of commercial ...

Emcore Corp., a maker of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for fiber optics and solar power, will make and test high-efficiency multijunction solar-cell assemblies for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) under a $22 million supply contract announced on June 20th. The assemblies will be used in ISRO’s commercial geostationary telecommunications and scientific Earth observation ...

Facing punitive tariffs in the EU, Chinese solar panel makers are eagerly looking to African markets and the state-owned Jiangxi Corporation is helping to coordinate a $140 million solar power station in Garissa, Kenya, as a base of operation. Chinese solar panel makers will supply most of the $140 million needed to build a solar power station in Garissa, Kenya, according to Xinhuanet, the information servi ...

Tata Group’s solar unit is expanding its business building plants for customers, forecasting that offices and factories will be paying more for grid power than solar by 2016 in most Indian states. Solar installations for commercial and industrial energy consumers, such as cement factories, information technology parks and car manufacturers, seeking to generate their own power represent a market of about 80 ...

Welspun Energy, India's biggest developer of solar projects, on Wednesday said that it had achieved financial closure for a 20 MW solar project being set up in Solapur in Maharashtra at a cost of Rs.180 crore. Leading financial institutions have committed to a long-term project funding of Rs.135 crore, with debt and equity ratio of 75:25, the company said. Its subsidiary Welspun Energy Maharashtra Pvt. Ltd. ...

Uganda has signed a contract with China’s Sino-Hydro Group Ltd. to build a $1.65 billion hydropower dam on the Nile River, reviving a project that had stagnated for years due to lack of funds. According to government sources, the contract for the construction of the 600-megawatt Karuma dam in the east African country is expected to start about two weeks after the signing of the contract, which was yesterday ...

Mongolia opened its first wind farm on June 20th, a landmark $122 million project that aims to shift the country's reliance on coal and tackle the pollution choking its capital Ulan Bator. A total of 31 turbines have been erected at the facility, which are expected to power five per cent of electricity needs in a country undergoing rapid transformation on the back of a spectacular boom in mining -- particul ...

The National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Association of Japan is implementing the largest solar power project in the country. The association, known as Zen-Noh, has formed a joint venture with the Mitsubishi Group to establish 200 MW of solar power generating systems at Zen-Noh facilities nationwide. The two companies have established the JAMC Solar Energy Company to operate these systems. Power ...