Work has started on China's third ultra-high voltage (UHV) power line project, according to an announcement by the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC). The new line will connect Zhejiang Province and Fujian Province, and in the future will form a major part of what will become the Eastern China UHV electric transmission line. UHV power lines are designed to deliver large quantities of power over long dis ...

Honda Motor Co. this week began testing a system to supply electricity to single-family homes from fuel-cell vehicles. Honda will continue testing the system, designed to examine how much power such a system could provide, by supplying electricity to a single-family house once a week between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in Kitakyushu. The experiment is expected to last two years until the end of fiscal 2014. The maxi ...

According to the latest statistics released by the National Energy Administration, China, the world's largest wind power producer, saw its wind power output surge 41% YoY to 100.8 terawatt hours last year. The wind power output last year accounted for about 2% of the country's total on grid electricity. As of the end of last year, the country's on-grid wind power capacity had increased to 62.66 gigawatt hou ...

AGL Energy Ltd. (AGK), operator of the A$1 billion ($1 billion) Macarthur wind farm in Australia’s Victoria state, said the project reached full capacity of 420 megawatts for the first time at the end of March. Macarthur, the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere, has generated the equivalent of one year’selectricity supply to more than 40,000 households and started operating fully at the end of Janu ...

Construction of run-of-the-river hydropower projects by India on Western rivers poses a serious threat to agriculture sector and could severely affect water availability in the country at crucial times. Farmers Associates of Pakistan (FAP), Research Institute of Natural Resources of Pakistan (RINP), Water Resources Development Council (WRDC) and Punjab Water Council (PWC) expressed the concern in a meeting ...

Deficient rains have compounded power woes in Kerala as the water-level of reservoirs is receding fast in the state which relies heavily on hydro power. The situation is bound to worsen if the catchment areas of major hydro-power projects fail to receive copious summer rains before the onset of South West Monsoon, which normally hits Kerala coast by the first week of June. Nearly 71 per cent of the state's ...

The Philippines government has approved a 35MW PV project in Darong, Davao del Sur on the island of Mindanao. The PhilNewEnergy PV solar power plant is located on a land owned by Ayala Corp’s subsidiary, Darong Agricultural Development Corp and will cost an estimated US$146.7 million. The project will be constructed by the local company Philnewenergy Inc. (PNE) in collaboration with Japan's Mitsubishi Corp, ...

A high-level Environment Ministry panel has recommended coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance for setting up a desalination unit at Koodankulam Nuclear Power plant (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu. The desalination plant functions on the distillation (Mechanical Vapour Compression) principle. Seawater will be drawn and will be fed to the plant. At KKNPP, the desalination plant consists of four streams each having a ...

Dubai has inaugurated the UAE's largest power and desalination plant in a move to boost power generation and water production in the emirate. The US$272.2 million gas-fired M Station, located in Jebel Ali, will be operated by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and have a capacity of 2,060MW and 140mn gallons of water a day. Saeed Al Tayer, manageing director of DEWA, said, “We are utilising th ...

In what could be a major setback to Gautam Adani-promoted Adani Group, coal from its Carmichael project in Australia may not fire any ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) in India. This is because the ash content expected in the coal from that mine is much higher than the stipulated maximum set by India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) for such projects. The coal to be mined from the Carmichael pro ...