Abengoa SA (ABG), the Spanish company that’s developed desalination plants from Algeria to India, said it’s started commercial operations making salt water potable at the Qingdao facility in China. Abengoa began building the plant in 2010 and will operate and maintain it for 25 years. During this time, the company is forecasting revenue of at least 750 million euros ($1 billion) from the sale of water and a ...

The Desalination Plants in question sit in areas of acute water scarcity. Six years ago, three desalination plants were installed at Mulavukad, Kadamakudi and Chellanam panchayats at the behest of Harbour Engineering Department of the State government, spending Rs. 33.84 lakh. The Mulavukad Panchayat, which had installed a plant in its area, pulled the plug on power connection to the plant recently. The pan ...

BHEL announced that it has commissioned a first unit of the 2x100 MW Nam Chien hydro project in Vietnam. The hydro power generating set is a development that is likely to open up more opportunities for the state-run major in the fast-growing market. “This success opens a huge market potential for BHEL not only in the hydro segment but also in the thermal and gas based power plant segments in Vietnam which w ...

Taiwan Cogeneration Corp yesterday said three of the company’s power-generation subsidiaries had settled legal disputes with state-run Taiwan Power Co. Taiwan Cogeneration said in a statement to the Taiwan Stock Exchange that three independent power producers (IPPs) under its purview had reach new agreements with Taipower over the terms of electricity purchase contracts. Wu said the IPPs had reached new pac ...

Singapore's PUB, the National Water Agency will work with a Dutch water supply company in the search for innovative water solutions to meet Singapore's growing water demand more efficiently and boost its status as a global hydrohub. Both sides will work together toward scientific and technological benefits by developing knowledge-intensive programs and projects. PUB signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ...

State-owned Indian power utility NHPC Ltd has termed as unfeasible two strategic hydroelectric projects in Myanmar, potentially dampening India’s economic diplomacy initiative to engage the South-East Asian nation. NHPC, in a detailed project report (DPR), said Myanmar’s proposed 1,200 megawatts (MW) hydroelectric project in Tamanthi is financially unviable without government support. An 880MW project in Sh ...

A contract worth approximately €90 million Eastern Power and Electric Co. Ltd (EPEC) has signed a 10-year operations and maintenance (O&M) contract with Alstom for its Bang Bo power plant, located at Khlong Daan, Bang Bo Samut Prakan Province, Thailand. This contract is an extension to the existing O&M contract which expires at the end of March 2013. As part of this contract, Alstom will station per ...

Grid connection and full power have been achieved for two offshore Haizhuang 5MW prototypes produced by CSIC Haizhuang and installed last autumn at the Rudong inter-tidal wind farm in the east China province of Jiangsu. Like many Chinese wind turbine manufacturers, CSIC (Chongqing) Haizhuang Windpower Equipment Co is focused on the rapid development of larger machines designed for offshore deployment. The t ...

Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi Corporation is ramping up activities in the offshore wind energy sector. At a time when Japan — as well the EU, the US, China, and countries around the world — are increasingly turning to wind, solar, and other clean, renewable energy resource development to fuel sustainable growth, news this week indicates that Mitsubishi Corporation – “a global integrated business ente ...

Tamil Nadu would generate around 40% of the solar energy produced in the country by 2015, said Sudeep Jain, chairman and director of the Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA). Jain was addressing an international workshop on renewable energy, climate change, energy management being held in the city on Thursday. He said that solar power generation was set to surge as state was all set to complete its r ...