With kerosene, diesel and coconut shells as sources of lighting for their homes, the residents of Kiu village on the island of Malaita in Solomon Islands were truly emotional when celebrating the completed installation of 180 solar home systems. The Kiu community are the first recipients of the US$3.99 million, which involves the installation of 2,000 solar home systems that will provide significant benefit ...

Inox Wind Ltd., India’s fourth-largest wind turbine supplier, may spend 1.5 billion rupees ($27 million) to expand capacity at two plants in Gujarat state as it targets greater market share. The company, whose customers include Oil India Ltd. (OINL) and Welspun Energy Ltd., may boost capacity to 800 megawatts from its rotor blade and tower factories in the western India state, from 500 megawatts this year, ...

Tata Power has plans to expand generation capacity of 4,000-MW Mundra plant, the country's first operational ultra mega power project, to 5,600 MW, a company official said. "Tata Power is exploring setting up additional two units of 800 MW each expanding the overall capacity of the Mundra power plant project from 4,000 MW to 5,600 MW," the Executive Director and CEO of Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd (CGPL), the ...

Alstom T&D India today said it has delivered a Rs 105 crore transmission project in Myanmar for Power Grid Corp. "Alstom T&D India has concluded the successful delivery of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd's (PGCIL) 230 kV transmission project, worth around Rs 105 crore in Myanmar," the company said in a statement here. The contract covered the supply of a turnkey substation for the 230 kV transmi ...

The construction of Indonesia country’s largest coal-fired power plant in Batang, Central Java will continue as originally scheduled despite strong protests from locals and environmental groups. Mr Luky Eko Wuryanto deputy for infrastructure and regional planning at the office of the coordinating economic minister, said that the government would do everything it could to ensure that the construction of the ...

Two Chinese firms on Tuesday officially commenced the construction of 700 megawatts (MW) Zungeru Hydroelectric Power Plant in Nigeria. The plant, located in central north Niger State, is expected to be completed in 2017 and isbeing constructed by China-based consortium of Sinohydro Corporation Ltd and Chinese National Electric Engineering Co (CNEEC). Both Chinese firms signed the Engineering procurement con ...

Scientists at the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg, ZSW (Germany) have developed top-class lithium-ion batteries. In terms of the cycle stability - an important parameter for the lifetime - the high-performance cells now exceed the current international state of technology: more than 10,000 full cycles have been achieved so far, ZSW reports in a press release.   More than ...

Construction of the plant is being overseen by the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) and the 10-km-long pipeline is being carried out by the National Water Company. Prominent figures at the launch included Prince Mishal Bin Majed, Governor of Jeddah; Abdullah Al-Hussayen, Minister of Water and Electricity; Abdulrahman Al-Ibrahim, Governor of SWCC; and Luay Musallam, Executive President of the Natio ...

LSIS signed an agreement in Samseong-dong, Seoul for the technology license and support for HVDC projects and was selected as a manufacturer with the joint venture KEPCO-ALSTOM Power Electronics Systems (KAPES) set up by Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and French power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure company Alstom. KAPES was established at the end of 2012 to secure HVDC tech ...

Along with the understandable focus of the government and the public on flood control and drought relief measures, it's important not to neglect another water-related issue that urgently needs addressing, that of the treatment of wastewater. In July of last year Pollution Control Department director-general Wichien Jungrungruang said that nearly half of the country's wastewater-treatment facilities had seri ...