Veer Energy & Infrastructure Ltd. said it had received 30 MW windfarm infrastructure development contract from China-based Foshan Crown Import & Export Co. Ltd. The company said it would develop 3 MW windfarm with Chinese Wind Turbine Generator. The scope of contracts includes civil foundation, electrical work, commissioning and erection of WTG. The order is to be completed in two years in phase man ...

The privatization of the power sector in Delhi has been very successful, resulting in savings of around Rs 30,000 crore by the city Government in the last ten years.The report by SBI Cap Securities on the power sector came amid an outcry over a hike in power tariffs in the city by nearly 50% in the last one year. The report, which examined the health of power sector in a number of States, complimented the D ...

Haryana Power Distribution utilities have decided to launch scheme by handing over power distribution feeders to franchises to cut down distribution losses which are now in the range of 30 to 35%. Utilities Chairman and Managing Director Devender Singh told reporters here today that power distribution feeders which are high on losses or up to 50% would be handed over to franchises. Singh said the scheme wou ...

As part of an eight-year $20 million investment created for utilities attempting to justify the cost of their smart grid projects, Australia-based wide area sensor network developer TPX Energy has unveiled a platform that it is calling a "smart grid/smart cities ecosystem that unlocks proprietary AMI networks." The company explains that the TPX Gateway bolt-on technology will let utilities build hybrid AMI ...

Sky Solar Holdings, an international PV project developer with headquarters in Shanghai, China, has broken ground on its 60MW PV facility which represents the first phase of its planned 800MW PV grid-connected project. Located in Xinjiang province in China, the project is being built on the Gobi Desert which covers around 1.2 million square meters and has excellent conditions to facilitate grid-connection. ...

Australia's largest solar farm went online earlier this month in a small step on the way to achieving the country's ambitious renewable energy target. The 10-MW Greenough River Solar Farm is co-owned by local utility Verve Energy and GE Energy Financial Services, and has over 150,000 thin film PV modules supplied by Arizona-based First Solar. The partners are already looking at the possibility of expanding ...

Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. (YGE), China’s third-largest solar-panel maker, shipped 40 megawatts of equipment to a pair of power projects in southern Peru as the company seeks to gain share in Latin America. The two 20-megawatt projects, in the Tacna and Moqueua regions, are expected to begin producing electricity this year, Baoding, China-based Yingli said today in a statement. Spain’s Corp. Gestamp So ...

Accenture and Siemens Infrastructure & Cities have announced that they are working together to provide smart metering solutions to help utility companies improve the automation, planning, monitoring and diagnosis of their electric grid infrastructures. Accenture and Siemens will specifically collaborate on Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Meter Data Management (MDM) solutions, which are design ...

South Korea plans to consider various ways to expand the use of the smart grid system as part of its efforts to enhance the nation's long-term energy efficiency, according to Ministry of Strategy and Finance. In a recently held meeting, the government had reviewed future energy policy directions and discussed ways to enhance energy efficiency and effectively cope with other problems from greenhouse gases. S ...

Recent efforts by the Indonesian government to attract geothermal companies seem to be having an effect. At a September meeting in Washington DC on Renewable Energy Opportunities in Indonesia, hosted by the US-ASEAN Business Council, speaker Joel Kopp (U.S. Embassy Jakarta) recounted the efforts of Indonesian leaders, who have set a separate feed-in tariff for geothermal at between 10 and 18.5 cents-per-kWh ...