Top marks to the Chinese government as it reveals, three quarters of the country’s coal power generation plants have been fitted with emission-reducing technology to make them among the world’s cleanest coal plants. To date, at least 700 gigawatts (GW) worth of power plants have been fitted with “ultra-low emission” technologies, hitting the country’s target of having 580 GW of coal plants being equipped w ...

According to a recent report, the Malaysian state of Kedah recently announced that it is inviting investors to develop more green technology-based projects in the state, especially those relating to solar power. The state’s Chief Minister said this would not only create more jobs but also establish many new business opportunities in terms of the handling, maintenance and installation of solar panels at comm ...

The environmental impact of China-led coal-fired power generation projects in Pakistan is once again a hot topic of debate, weeks after a meeting of government officials from both sides. A raft of Chinese power projects, including coal-fired ones, have begun to ease the acute electricity shortages that dogged Pakistan's industries and consumers until five years ago. At one point, power cuts lasted for more ...

Tata Power today announced it has commissioned South Asia’s largest grid-scale energy storage system in Delhi. The 10 Megawatt (MW) energy storage system, owned by AES and Mitsubishi Corporation, has been installed at Tata Power Delhi Distribution’s Rohini substation.  It is expected to provide better peak load management, system flexibility and reliability to more than two million consumers, Tata Power sai ...

MAN Energy Solutions is handing over a new solution for combined heat and power generation (CHP) to energy company EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG. The 30 MW plant in the Gaisburg district of Stuttgart (Germany) commenced commercial operations at the end of December 2018. At the heart of the plant lie three MAN 20V35/44G gas engines, which produce not only electrical energy but also 30 MW district heating ...

Demonstrating their expertise in logistics, civils works and the complete turnkey solution, ALE has completed the transportation of heavy wind components through a challenging 1,000km route to the Rom Klao wind farm in Mukdahan, eastern Thailand. Starting in April 2018, ALE was contracted for the full-service package: the transportation, craneage and installation (TCI) scope of 13 wind turbines, measuring u ...

According to a press statement released by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), India’s government is “making concerted efforts” to develop energy storage technologies to manage variable generation from renewable energy sources, including solar power. In this regard, an Expert Committee, chaired by the MNRE Secretary, proposed a draft called the National Energy Storage Mission (NESM), last year. ...

In an increasingly IoT-connected world, Smart Energy and Smart Transportation are tightly linked. In fact, Smart Transportation isn’t possible without a Smart Energy component. “Smart” transportation has begun to imply “electrified” transportation: the move to battery-operated cars, trucks, motorcycles and soon other forms is well underway, with commercial trucking already adopting autonomous driving and on ...

There will be some happy faces at IBM at the moment as the ‘Big Blue’ has secured a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with Smart Energy Water (SEW). The latter company is a global energy and water cloud platform provider serving more than 150+ utilities across the world and intends to leverage the IBM Cloud for SEW platform global deployment over the next five years. SEW will be using the flexibilit ...

Thailand and Singapore among nations keen on such projects in land-scarce region BANGKOK • Solar power companies in South-east Asia that are competing for land with agriculture, industry and expanding populations have found an innovative alternative - to put floating panels in lakes, dams, reservoirs and the sea. Earlier this week, state utility Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) said it wo ...