Alstom India, leader in power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure, gained on Monday after it secured a contract from Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) worth close to Euro 30 million to supply components and services for the 2x660 MW Banharpalli Super Thermal Power Project (STPP) located in Jharsaguda, Orissa. Under the scope of the contract, Alstom will co-operate with BHEL in designing the ...

The rearrangement of power distributing companies with two districts (Anantapur and Kurnool) being reshuffled as envisaged in the AP Reorganisation Act will cause a huge entanglement of loans, purchases and projects. Anantapur and Kurnool districts will come under the Southern Discom according to the Reorganisation Bill. The two districts are currently under the Northern Discom. The Act said that APGenco pl ...

With its coal and wind power projects soon to take off, Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. of the Phinma Group aims to double its power generating capacity by 2016. Phinma’s flagship company in the energy industry may expand capacity to “close to 500 megawatts” or so by 2016, president and CEO Francisco L. Viray said in an interview on the sidelines of the parent firm’s stockholders meeting. At pre ...

The Andong combined cycle power plant (CCPP) in South Korea was erected in a record time of only 24 months. Thisliquefied natural gas (LNG) fired plant has an electrical capacity of 417 megawatts (MW), making it the second Siemens (NYSE: SI) operating H-class-based combined-cycle power plant in Asia with an efficiency level of more than 60 percent. The owner and operator is Korea Southern Power Co. Ltd. (KO ...

Karimnagar Parliament constituency is starved of power and water for irrigation needs. Hence, focus of the contesting candidates would be on the execution of the pending 2,100 MW APGenco’s gas-based power project in Nedunuru village and Sri Ram Sagar Project (SRSP) flood flow canal project. Of the seven Assembly segments in Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency, Manakondur, Karimnagar, Husnabad, Sircilla, Vemul ...

Australia, Perth – 8 April, 2014: Atkins, one of the world’s leading design, engineering and project management consultancies, has chosen AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) and AVEVA Laser Modeller software to support Lean Construction processes. Atkins has already executed many successful projects on AVEVA PDMS and is keen to increase its delivery standards with AVEVA E3D. Key capabilities that persuaded Atkin ...

Paris: Alstom SA, the French maker of trains and power equipment, agreed to sell its steam auxiliary components unit to investment firm Triton for about €730 million ($1 billion) as it seeks to shore up its balance sheet. “The business, which makes air preheaters and gas heaters for thermal power plants, heat transfer technology for petrochemical and industrial processes, and grinding mills, generated about ...

Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar reiterated that he would strive to ensure execution of long-pending gas-based power plant of APGenco in Nedunuru village here. “If there is short supply of gas, then the power plant should be converted into a thermal power station to generate at least 1,000 MW power,” he maintained. Talking to the newsmen here on Sunday, he said despite acquiring land for the project and layin ...

America is the current leader when it comes to fracking and exacting natural gas and oil from shale. But the red, white and blue isn’t the only country with the geology to support the advanced drilling technique. Several nations can — including Asia’s largest emerging market, China. The nation features enviable reserve potential, with trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, and an insatiable energy appetite ...

Government emphasis on waste diversion from landfills will strengthen the prospects of the solid waste management (SWM) market in Australia. With increasing waste volume and the government's long-term plan to achieve zero or near-zero waste, market participants are already seeing the lucrative benefits of SWM. However, growth will be tempered by the lukewarm demand for recovered materials and the inconsiste ...