Tata Power's 1,050 Megawatt power station in the state of Jharkhand is a textbook case of the absurd results that India's 1970s-era coal supply laws can produce, and why power utilities are lobbying the government to change them. The Maithon power station is located in the heart of India's vast coal belt, but a shortfall in local fuel supplies has forced Tata to import some of the coal for the plant all the ...

China has achieved another world-beating status its leaders don't want: Biggest oil importer. China passed the United States in September as the world's biggest net oil importer, driven by faster economic growth and strong auto sales, according to U.S. government data released this week. Chinese oil consumption outstripped production by 6.3 million barrels per day, which indicates the country had to import ...

According to Nguyen Khac Tho, Deputy General Director of the Energy General Directorate, Samsung is considering developing a thermopower plant project in Vietnam, either in Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Hau Giang or Kien Giang. In early August 2013, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai requested the Ministry of Industry and Trade to consider developing a project in the cooperation with Samsung. In 2012, Sa ...

Sumitomo Corp., a Japanese trading company, won a contract to build a 35-megawatt unit for a geothermal power station in Indonesia. The unit will be built with PT Rekayasa Industri, an Indonesian engineering company, for PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement. Fuji Electric Co. will supply a steam turbine and generator for the fifth unit of the Kamojang geothermal statio ...

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has recently presented Thailand Energy Awards 2013 to Mr. Veerasak Kositpaisal, Chief Executive Officer and President, Thai Oil Public Company Limited, at Santi Maitri building, the Government House. The company won the Outstanding Renewable Power Award under the category of Non-Grid Connected renewable Electricity Generation Project (Off-Grid), which is the 6th Thailand E ...

Companies from Indonesia and the United States agreed on Tuesday to work on more than $240 million in green energy projects, advancing the two countries’ cooperation in environmentally friendly technology. “In my perspective, there’s no better way to close our very productive APEC meeting than with new partnerships between the two countries,” US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said on the sidelines of the ...

Reliance Infrastructure today said that it will producing cement in its five million tonne-Madhya Pradesh plant, this month. The company also said that it expects this business to contribute as much as Rs 3,000 crore to their annual revenues. This is the second cement plant that the company commissiond after launching commercial operations in Amravati, in April this year. The plant has 0.5 million tonne cap ...

After being forced to shut the Dabhol power plant in Maharashtra due to a natural gas shortage, GAIL India and NTPC are considering renting out the 1,967-Mw unit to private electricity generators. Ratnagiri Gas & Power Pvt Ltd (RGPPL), a joint venture between gas utility GAIL and the nation’s biggest electricity generator, NTPC, shut the Dabhol power plant in March after gas supplies from Reliance Indus ...

London-listed metals and mining conglomerate Vedanta Resources Plc. plans to increase its operational power generation capacity in India to 10,000 Megawatt (MW) within a year by bringing three operation-ready projects onstream shortly, thereby completing its Rs.50,000 crore power investment cycle that was set in motion five years back, reports said, quoting a senior company executive. One of the largest pri ...

Team Energy Corporation tapped Japan's Marubeni Corporation to expand the capacity of the 735-megawatt (MW) Pagbilao coal-fired plant in Quezon. Team Energy president Federico Puno said the expansion involves another 400 MW of power at a cost of $700 million. An engineering, procurement and construction contract will be signed with Marubeni soon, said Puno. Expansion work will commence after. "Hopefully, we ...