Hydropower projects shelved in response to environmental concerns and community relocation issues last year have resumed in recent months in western China. But the bulk of the nation's planned hydroelectric dam projects are still on hold due to nagging cost gaps between hydro and traditional thermal power plants. Hydroelectric dams are expensive to build, and the industry says hydropower tariffs are too low ...

Prime Minister Akil Akilov November 28 chaired a working meeting of relevant ministers and agency directors to discuss issues related to design and construction of small and mid-sized hydro-power stations, News.tj reported November 28, quoting a source in Akilov’s secretariat. Akilov gave the conferees specific instructions to accelerate work on hydro-power stations presently under construction, as well as ...

China made remarkable progress in seawater desalination in recent years through the use of membrane technology, said Xu Nanping of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The new technology stands out from traditional methods, such as extraction and evaporation due to its lower energy consumption and higher purification rate, Xu said. "And it has become an effective way to deal with the water shortage in China, ...

Korean-invested Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam (Doosan Vina) announced that it has received an order to manufacture four 4,000-ton seawater desalination plants for Saudi Arabia. The order came from Doosan Vina’s parent company Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction of South Korea who earlier had announced a US$1 billion order from the state-run Saline Water Conversion Corporation of Saudi Arabia. The c ...

A few months from now, the second desalination plant in Nemmeli will start supplying water to the city, and Chennai Metrowater will incur huge expenses in buying it — placing massive financial stress on an agency already burdened by revenue deficits for over six years now. In the last fiscal year alone, the difference between the water agency’s income and expenditure was nearly Rs. 100 crore. One major reas ...

China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited (“Ming Yang” or the “Company”) (MY), a leading wind turbine manufacturer in China, today announced that Guangdong Mingyang Wind Power Industry Group Limited (“Guangdong Mingyang”), a subsidiary of Ming Yang, has entered into a financing framework agreement (the “Framework Agreement”) with Reliance Power Limited (“Reliance Power”), the largest private sector power com ...

China Guodian has begun to develop a 150MW offshore wind farm in Xiangshan county, in waters off the eastern province of Zhejiang, in partnership with Ningbo Electric. Construction will begin next year, according to Xiangshan county officials. The 150MW offshore wind farm will feature 50 3MW turbines, with China Guodian thus far declining to specify the turbine supplier. Annual electricity generation is for ...

Spanish company Gamesa has secured an engineering, procurement and construction contract from Indian public sector enterprise SJVN for the 47.6MW to the wind farm in Maharastra. The scope of the contract includes the installation of 56 Gamesa 850 kW turbines alongside a ten-year operation and maintenance award. Commenting on the state of the Indian power sector Gamesa India chairman and managing director Ra ...

China Development Bank Corp. agreed to provide 30 billion yuan ($4.8 billion) of funding to China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Co. over the next three years to develop wind power projects at home and abroad. Loans, bonds and leasing may be used to finance the construction and operation of the wind farms, the state-owned bank said in a statement on its website yesterday. The terms weren’t disclosed. Guang ...

Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies like L&T, Kalpataru Power and KEC International plan to participate in eight transmission projects of Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) and Power Finance Corporation (PFC) as developers for a 35-year concession. Tenders for the projects are expected next month. The decision to run the projects on a ‘build, own, operate, maintain and transfe ...