Lesser-developed countries — with limited, inefficient, or ageing power plants, and significant supply gaps — like Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Laos, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Uzbekistan, should be supported for interventions that could focus on priorities for reducing line losses; installing proper metering, billing, and collection systems; and improving the efficiency of power plants, according ...

Around the world, governments and businesses are constantly being called upon to make big investments in solar, wind, and geothermal energy, as well as biofuels. But, in the US, unlike in Europe and Asia, discussion of hydrogen energy and fuel cells as systemic, game-changing technologies is largely absent. That needs to change: these clean, renewable energy sources promise not only zero-emission baseload p ...

Sharp Corp., a Japanese solar panel maker, is considering building a 38-megawatt solar power station in northern Japan. The plant may be built in Tomakomai city, Hokkaido, Miyuki Nakayama, a Sharp spokeswoman, said by phone today, declining to confirm details included in a June 29 story in the Nikkei newspaper. No decision has been made on the plant, she said. The station may cost more than 10 billion yen ( ...

The power supply was badly affected in the core Malwa region on Saturday afternoon following the breakdown of all four working units of Guru Hargobind Thermal Power Plant (GHGTPP), Lehra Mohabbat, and two units of Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Power Plant (GNDTPP), Bathinda, following a communication gap between different offices of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL). Bathinda, Mansa and Muktsar di ...

As many as 338 hydro-power projects, which theoretically could generate a combined capacity of over 1,000MW of electricity, would be put off. The decision has been jointly made by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and provincial authorities across the country. They also agreed to have another 169 potential projects dropped from consideration. These moves follow a series of recent inspection carried out by ...

Malaysia’s national power utility company, Tenaga Nasional Berhad, plans to upgrade its largest hydropower plant the Sultan Mahmud located in Kenyir, Kuala Berang. T.N.B. has met with the power plant’s original equipment manufacturer partners from Japan, specifically Ebara and Hitachi, for the inspection of Sultan Mahmud’s turbine and transformer units and for the upgrade. T.N.B. will be assessing the overa ...

Origin Energy Ltd. has acquired a power generator from the New South Wales state government for 659 million Australian dollars (US$603 million). Origin, which is Australia's biggest electricity retailer, said it only had to give the government A$50 million cash to buy Eraring Energy. The sum was so low because it had previously paid the government A$609 million back in 2010 to acquire all the generator's po ...

Siemens has appointed Markus Tacke as chief executive of its Energy Sector’s Wind Power Division. He will take up the role on 1 August and succeeds Felix Ferlemann, who is leaving the company “by mutual agreement to pursue new career challenges”. Tacke is currently chief executive of the Energy Sector’s Industrial Power Business Unit, which is responsible for the German giant’s industrial power generation b ...

Siemens is expected to cut around 1,700 jobs in the restructuring of its energy business. WirtschaftsWoche said the unit's main production facilities in Erlangen and Offenbach and a plant in Muelheim an der Ruhr would be affected by the cost-cutting drive. Around 140 jobs at Muelheim, where Siemens makes steam turbines, will be cut, the magazine said, citing labor representative sources. Siemens' energy bus ...

China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited, a leading wind turbine manufacturer in China, today announced that its first 6.5MW prototype super compact drive ("SCD") wind turbine generator ("WTG") has been successfully completed in June 2013, and installation and testing are expected to commence in the third quarter of 2013. The 6.5MW SCD prototype utilizes Ming Yang's advanced two-bladed SCD technology. It is ...