A recently approved plan to increase the capacity of Nepal's Upper Trishula 3A hydropower project from has not come without controversy, according to sources. The Upper Trishula 3A, part of Nepal's plan to develop 10,000 MW of hydropower by the end of the decade, is being constructed as a 60 MW hydroelectric project on the Trishuli River. A decision approved at a meeting of Nepal's Council of Ministers earl ...

Alstom and its consortium partner, Hydrochina Zhongnan Engineering Corp, have signed a contract worth over €90 million with Vietnam Electricity (EVN) to provide the electro- mechanical equipment of the 1,200 MW Lai Chau hydro power plant located on the Da River, in Lai Chau Province. Alstom’s share in the contract is worth over €60 million. The scope of the contract includes the delivery, supervision of ere ...

Hydrotek Plc (HYDRO), the MAI-listed water company, wants to launch small hydropower plants worth 500 million to 1 billion baht in Laos in the near future. Chief executive Slib Soongswang said the company will join Universal Adsorbents & Chemicals, the MAI-listed alternative energy and water management company, to explore possibilities in the neighbouring country. "After being involved in the water busi ...

China Electricity Council (CEC) president Liu Zhenya announced that the country’s installed capacities for wind and hydro power had grown to be the world’s largest. The country is rapidly increasing its construction of hydro power projects. The country is already home to the Three Gorges Dam Project (TGP), the world’s largest hydro power complex project, which includes approximately one million square kilom ...

The Indian government has approved the construction of the 300-MW Lakhwad hydroelectric plant in the northern state of Uttarakhand. The US$724.3 million plant will be developed by Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam (UJVNl), which is a joint venture between the state and India's central government. Uttarakhand officials say the state will contribute about a third of Lakhwad's costs, with the federal government pay ...

To harness water resources for electricity generation, two memoranda of understanding (MOU) have been signed by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) and Korean firms. The agreement involves developing two hydropower projects in a public private partnership with a cumulative power generation capacity of 1,161 MW. The agreement emerged from President ...

Son La, the largest hydropower plant in Southeast Asia, went on stream on December 23, three years ahead of schedule. Ground was broken for the plant in Muong La town in the northern province of Son La in late 2005, and it was expected to be completed only in 2015. It is on the Da River, the main tributary of the Red River. The spillway is situated on the right bank and contains eight spillway gates and 12 ...

Hydro Tasmania will pull its personnel out of the Malaysian state of Sarawak by the end of 2013, the company’s chief executive promised an indigenous delegation Monday. The indigenous leaders are touring Australia to demand that the Tasmanian government corporation stop participating in Sarawak’s plans to dam most of the state’s rivers. Hydro Tasmania is a dams operator and consultancy firm owned by the gov ...

An Indian company is interested in investment projects to construct three hydropower plants in Belarus. The projects are estimated at about $90 million, Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Belarus Andrei Savinykh told reporters on 6 December. The matter will be discussed during the visit of an Indian business delegation to Belarus on 12-15 December. The delegation will be led by Chairman of SMS Internatio ...

Energy World International Ltd. of Australia is expanding its portfolio of projects in the Philippines to include a hydropower plant with a capacity of up to 140 megawatts and a 200-MW wind farm, a company official said over the weekend. Eduardo Rodriguez, Energy World country manager and former Quezon governor, told reporters aside from a liquefied natural gas terminal now under construction, the company w ...