Shanghai Donghai Wind Power Co. expects to begin building the second phase of its Donghai Bridge wind farm near Shanghai at the end of the year. The 100.8 MW offshore facility will cost 1.9 billion yuan ($310 million), Vice General Manager Zhang Kaihua said in an interview in Shanghai. The project, which will take 20 months to build, will use 28 turbines from Shanghai Electric Group Co.  capable of producin ...

Chinese power companies and Japanese trading houses are emerging as major financiers of African renewable energy projects, which saw investment quadruple to $9.3 billion last year, Baker & McKenzie LLP said. “Asian investors are increasingly targeting African renewable energy projects,” attracted by better returns and strong wind and solar resources on the continent, the Chicago-based law firm said in r ...

Santerno, the Carraro Group company that specializes in alternative energy electronics and industrial automation, has announced that the company has reached an agreement with Energy Absolute, the renewable energy business network in Thailand, to provide solar power inverters to the largest photovoltaic plant in Southeast Asia. Under the terms of the contract, Santerno will supply all the integrated inverter ...

Siemens Energy has developed a new steam turbine for geothermal power plants to serve the power range up to 120 MW. The SST-500 GEO follows the SST-400 GEO turbine, which was introduced in the autumn of 2011. The SST-500 GEO is a single-casing, double-flow condensing turbine. As a derivative of the SST-500 and SST-600 turbine families, it combines the proven casing and auxiliaries of the Siemens SST-500 and ...

Gulf Energy Development Co was the only winner for Thailand's third round of Independent Power Producer (IPP) bidding, with combined capacity of 5,000 megawatts. A source who asked not to be named said Gulf was shortlisted based on technical criteria two weeks ago and named the sole winner in terms of proposed electricity tariffs last week. Five bidders won in the first round and three in the second round. ...

India has decided to allow some power companies to pass on the costs of foreign coal to customers, a minister said on Friday, in a move likely to boost imports and investment in power generation but bring higher prices. The policy will apply only to power stations that rely principally on domestic coal and buy imports to make up for local shortfalls, however. Tata Power Co, one of the country's best known u ...

Two new projects aim to reduce treated water losses and ensure continuity of service for people in India  LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. and NEW DELHI, INDIA — June 19, 2013 — Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that it is helping address water conservation and efficiency in India by delivering advanced automation technology. Itron has been selected by Larsen & Turbo, the largest construction company in Ind ...

Pakistan has asked the Manila-based Asian Development Bank to help finance two coal-fired power units at the Jamshoro thermal power station in Sindh, a senior official of Pakistan's Water and Power Development Authority revealed this week. Zafar Umar Farooqi, chief engineer at the authority, said Pakistan had initially sought a $433 million ADB loan for one 600-megawatt unit but the bank has now been asked ...

South Windsor manufacturer ClearEdge Power has sold a fuel cell to a key financial center in Korea, the company announced Wednesday. ClearEdge will install one of its PureCell Model 400 kilowatt units at the Busan International Finance Center's Landmark Tower, in a deal with Samsung Everland. This is ClearEdge's first installation in the city of Busan and the fourth deal with Samsung Everland, which has ins ...

The Indian power sector is facing a series of big challenges in financing, big demand and supply gap in electricity power, serious AT&C loss etc. The country has been in an endeavor to move towards smart grid with government and industry initiatives for the past two years. Recently the government funding for smarter grid pilots has been delayed. However, in the discussion with international investors an ...