Chennai Metro Water is now adopting a new technology to prevent sewage outflow onto the street. Metro Water officials said that Municipal Administration and Water Supply Minister K. P. Munusamy had asked them to implement a `3.60-crore project so that sewage outflow is minimised in the city. Accordingly, Metro Water would install ultrasonic level detectors in sewage collection wells to automatically pump se ...

It’s been a long time coming, but finally Geodynamics has commissioned Australia’s first trial geothermal power plant. It’s great news for the fledgling company, which still admittedly has a long way to go before it proves Australia’s geothermal resources can play a significant role in our power sector. The 1MWe Habanero Pilot Plant trial will run until August, with the company saying it is fully funded unt ...

Kyushu Electric Power Co. said Thursday it will launch a geothermal power generation project in Indonesia with trading house Itochu Corp. This marks the first overseas geothermal power generation project by a Japanese electric power company. Kyushu Electric said a power plant will begin operating as early as late 2016 and all of the electricity generated there will be sold to an Indonesian state-run utility ...

Itron hosted an inauguration ceremony on Tuesday for its first Smart Metering Lab and Knowledge Center in India, at Itron India (located in Noida). The Smart Metering Lab and Knowledge Center is a demonstration center to showcase and demonstrate Itron’s smart metering and AMI solutions. It will benefit local utilities, government officials and other groups by sharing insights and knowledge Itron has learned ...

Recently public smart grid player Silver Spring Networks has started working on a deal with Singapore utility Singapore Power to build a wireless smart grid network including smart meters. The deal is Silver Spring’s first in Asia and Silver Spring Executive Vice President, Global Development Eric Dresselhuys tells me he hopes it will be the “anchor customer in the region.” Asian markets are growing at a fa ...

Solarcity New Zealand has partnered with Panasonic New Zealand to provide a 131 kilowatt peak solar system to power a desalination plant in the Pacific Island of Nauru, the smallest republic in the world. Solarcity chief executive Andrew Booth said the project was one of the largest his company had worked on so far, but he expected similar projects to become more common. The $4 million project, managed by H ...

Members Thailands Eastern People Network Group have appealed to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra for help to solve water pollution from the disposal of chemical waste into canals. Amid tight security by police, the group went on to submit their complaint letter to Yingluck, who was in the eastern province of Chachoengsao for a mobile cabinet meeting. They told the prime minister that people living in Phan ...

A Remote Island off Sasebo city in southern Japan has won permission to construct one of Japan’s biggest solar power plants. The island will borrow idled land and construct and operate the facilities for 20 years with the project costing a total of 100 billion yen ($1.1 billion). Electricity will be supplied to Kyushu Electric Power Co. (9508) on Sasebo city’s mainland by building undersea transmission line ...

AGL Energy Limited (AGL) today announced that it will commence a major refurbishment  program at its West Kiewa Power Station from 26 March 2013 until 30 July 2013. The refurbishment program includes installing new turbines and main inlet valves in the power  station. The program demonstrates AGL’s ongoing commitment to the renewable energy resources available from the existing Kiewa Hydro-electric Scheme. ...

China may wrest power projects away from India in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, thwarting its bid to exert economic and strategic influence in the neighbourhood by developing infrastructure. One such instance is Indian state-run power utility NTPC Ltd’s stalled plan to build a 500 megawatt (MW) plant in Sri Lanka. The island state is now said to favour a Chinese tie-up for the project.   Also uncertain is ...