Four sets of Taiwan Power Company's (Taipower) generators fed with natural gas were shut down on the night of Aug. 1 as the company coordinated with Kaohsiung City government in rescue efforts and underground pipeline repair. The four generators, fed with liquid natural gas, are located in Kaohsiung and supply utilities to the city. The shutdown will lower the island's electricity output by 1100-megawatts, ...

The Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation has said the proposed overhaul of 500 MW unit of the Simhadri stage-1 from August 16 has been deferred by the Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh. Though it was programmed to shut down the unit, catering to requirements of A.P. and Telangana, for 35-day overhaul, the proposal was put on hold keeping in view the demand in spite of inflows into reservoirs ...

Today AVEVA announced the launch of AVEVA Information Standards Manager (AVEVA ISM), a software product that enables both EPC contractors and asset Owner Operators to achieve greater control over critical engineering information across their projects and enterprises. It does this by rationalising existing class libraries and imposing consistent and compliant standards that improve information quality and re ...

  Dinh Quang Tri, Deputy General Director of the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), noted that enterprises are importing coal themselves to run thermal power plants instead of relying on the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin), the only domestic coal supplier. According to Tri, it was very difficult to import coal two to three years ago, when the world market was hot because of high demand ...

The Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited (Vinacomin) will complete privatization of all directly-under companies in Jan, 2015. By the end of June, 2014, Vinacomin has completed privatization of two units, including: Vinacomin - Material, Transport and Stevedoring Company Limited, Thai Nguyen Non-ferrous Metals Limited Company. Vinacomin-Power Holding Corporation Limited, ...

Sajjan Jindal's JSW Energy may be keen to acquire Lanco Infratech's 1,200 mw thermal power plant in Udupi, a person with knowledge of the matter said, even though the plant in western Karnataka was shut down last week amid a payment dispute between the operator and the state government. "Lanco's shutting down the Udupi plant is only temporary ... It continues to make a lot of strategic interest for JSW and ...

[NEW DELHI] Dashing the expectations of India’s scientific community, the newly elected government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has only marginally increased the annual budgetary allocation for science departments. The budget for 2014—2015 presented in Parliament this week (10 July) sets aside one billion Indian rupees (US$ 16.6 million) for a national adaptation plan to give thrust to the renewable ener ...

EGAT International, the overseas investment unit of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, has signed a memorandum to build a $2.26-billion thermal power plant in central Vietnam, the Vietnam Economic Times newspaper reports. Construction of the 1,200-megawatt plant will start in Quang Tri province in 2017 and the first unit will begin operation in January 2021, the report said. ...

- Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) has received an order for a set of gas turbine and steam turbine for the Bheramara gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) power plant to be developed by North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL), a regional power provider under the Government of Bangladesh. The prime contractor is Marubeni Corporation. The set of gas turbine and steam turbine will be sup ...

The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday announced its latest decision to fine nine privately owned electricity suppliers a total of NT$6.007 billion for refusing to cooperate with the Taiwan Power Company (Taipower, 台電) to lower the price of electricity. This is the third attempt by the FTC to fine the nine electricity suppliers. The commission in March 2013 deemed that the electricity companies violated ...