Laos will start building a dam on the Mekong River this week, a step that neighboring Cambodia and Vietnam fear could imperil fish and cripple rice fields. The Xayaburi dam is expected to reap profits for Laos by generating hydropower to sell to Thailand. The $3-billion-plus project would be the first major dam on the lower part of the Mekong, a massive waterway that provides food and jobs to millions of pe ...

The Jammu and Kashmir government is implementing three mega power projects to harness 2,220 MW of hydro-electricity which will cost an estimated Rs 17,290 crores in the first phase. Chenab Valley Power Projects Ltd will be initially be involved in development of 2,220 MW of hydro-electricity from three power projects: Pakuldul, Kiru and Kawar in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). This was revealed at a high level ...

Alstom has successfully delivered the first generating unit at the Xiangjiaba hydropower plant in China. The 800MW Francis turbine and 889MVA generator unit passed a reliability trial run of 72 hours and recently began commercial operation. Each generating unit has a maximum output equivalent to a small nuclear power plant and is claimed to be the most powerful ever built. When completed the station, which ...

The government of China’s Jiangxi Province has just released the 12th Five-Year New Energy Development Plan spanning 2011 to 2015. It reveals that the province plans to focus on the development of non-fossil energy sources including hydraulic, wind, solar, biomass and geothermal. Jiangxi province is home to rich resources 6.85 GW of hydropower reserves, accounting for approx 1% of China's total, including 5 ...

The Xayaburi hydropower project is on schedule to begin supplying electricity in 2019, as the Laotian government has given no written notice of its cancellation or postponement, said Norkun Sitthiphong, permanent secretary of the Thai Energy Ministry. The Xayaburi hydropower project is on schedule to begin supplying electricity in 2019, as the Laotian government has given no written notice of its cancellati ...

Hydrokinetic power developer Ocean Power Technologies Inc. has received a US$900,000 contract from Japan's Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding to further develop its buoy generation system for application in Japanese sea conditions. OPT says the contract will allow it to continue analysing methods of maximizing its PowerBuoy units through modelling and wave tank testing. Enhancements developed in conjunctio ...

South Korean builder SK Engineering and Construction and state-run Korean Western Power have won a $1.0 billion deal to build and operate a hydropower plant in Laos, an official said on Tuesday.Under the deal with the Laotian government, SK Construction will build three dams and a hydropower plant at the Mekong River in the southern plateau of Bolaven by 2018, an SK Construction spokesman said. The Xe-Namno ...

The World Bank will work together with the Japanese government and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to support Nepal on the development of hydropower sector. “The government of Japan has said it would soon provide US$ 150 million for developing Tanahu Hydropower development project,” said Finance MiniterBarsha Man Pun, who returned from the 67th annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund ( ...

Reliance Power has secured the techno economic clearance from the country's Central Electricity Authority for its 700MW Tato II hydro power project in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The company can now proceed with the implementation of the project with immediate effect, reported The Hindu BusinessLine. Estimated to cost INR60bn ($1.1bn) the Tato II project is proposed to be developed in the ...

Authorities in the central province of Quang Tri visited a hydropower plant site Saturday after the investor finally admitted that its dam broke a week ago, flooding local fields. Truong Son Hydropower JSC, the project investor, said the accident happened on October 7 while it was experimenting with water storage. It said construction at part of the dam was not finished and torrential rains from typhoon Gae ...