AVEVA and AMEC today announced their signing of a new five-year global agreement for the supply of AVEVA software for engineering, design and information management. This latest agreement extends a single global contract that provides access for all of AMEC’s worldwide offices to the full portfolio of AVEVA software and services, including the AVEVA Enterprise Resource Management suite, and the new market-l ...

Pakistan’s electricity demand is growing. In order to close supply gaps, the Ministry of Water & Power plans the construction of a power park with an installed capacity of 6,600 MW. The new plant with 10 units of 660 MW each will be established in Gaddani near Karachi. Lahmeyer International GmbH will develop the master plan for the entire park arrangement in cooperation with the consulting company NESP ...

Siemens and Japanese partner Marubeni consortium have completed construction of the Wang Noi 4 combined cycle power plant in Thailand.   The power plant has been handed over to the owner, the state-owned utility Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) and entered commercial operation. Featuring an efficiency of over 57.3 % with an electrical capacity of 770MW, the natural gas fired power pl ...

PTI reported that the Electricity Supply Companies of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation have signed a power purchase agreement for sharing 230 MW power generated from Priyadarshini Jurala Hydro power project. The project commissioned in April 2011 at a cost of INR 720 crore has a built in tariff to be determined at identical rates for both the states by APERC. The project cost is low ...

Another two power plants will be added to the grid system in order to secure the stability of the country’s electricity demand and to serve the forthcoming ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), according to the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT). Ayuuthaya’s Wang Noi power plant, which produces 768 megawatts of capacity, and Songkhla’s Chana power plant with 782 megawatts, are scheduled to connec ...

US energy and healthcare giant General Electric Company (GE) has proposed a Rs 2,340-crore open offer to acquire the publicly-held shares in Alstom India and Alstom T&D, following its $16.9-billion bid to acquire the global energy assets of the French multinational company. The conclusion of open offer is subject to a successful takeover by GE. Alstom has two listed entities in India with business inter ...

Over the past couple of decades, natural gas (NG) has become a fuel of choice for power generation. One way of increasing the availability of NG is through the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Global LNG trade is expected to grow by 30% in the coming few years. In connection to LNG production growth, receiving and re-gasification capacity must grow as well.   A substantial part of this growth will c ...

Villagers of the Laem Hin village in the southern province of Krabi on Monday brought more than 50 boats to block the construction site of a coal pier by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT). The latter eventually bowed to the protesters’ demand and decided to put off the construction. One of the villagers said they objected to the coal pier due to fears over its impacts to their liveliho ...

Electricity consumption in Thailand reached a record 26,942.1 megawatts on Wednesday afternoon, as the temperature touched close to 38 Celsius (100 Fahrenheit) in Bangkok, the Electricity Generation Authority of Thailand (Egat) said. The record electricity used occurred at 2.36pm, breaking the old mark of 26,598.1 Mw on May 16 of last year. Power usage on Wednesday was also higher than Egat’s own projection ...

Australia - Indonesia’s decision to start cancelling investment treaties with 62 countries has passed with little comment, but the move may have a greater impact than the recent banning of mineral ore exports. Indonesia last month kick-started the process of terminating all of its bilateral treaties by notifying the Netherlands that its agreement to protect and promote investment would end in 2015, and sign ...