The Vietnamese Government have announced that Malaysia's Toyo Ink Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Vietnam's industry ministry to develop the Song Hau-2 coal-fired power plant in Vietnam. The 2000 MW thermal power project, to be located in the southern province of Hau Giang, would be fed by imported coal, most likely from Australia and Indonesia. Toyo are yet to comment on the deve ...

According to Navigant Research, North America and Asia Pacific lead the world in terms of geothermal power projects in the final stages of development, with 56 reported projects in either active drilling or construction stages. Nearly all of these projects are in the US, the Philippines, and Indonesia. "More than 4 gigawatts of geothermal power capacity are expected to come online worldwide between 2013 and ...

Poyry has been awarded the owner's engineer services assignment for the Van Phong 1 2x660 MW coal-fired power plant project in Vietnam by Sumitomo Corporation. Van Phong 1 is a coal-fired power plant project consisting of two similar blocks, each block including a once-through pulverised coal fired steam generator and a steam turbine. The project will use supercritical steam values, which improves the plant ...

South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) said Monday it had won a $3.3 billion order to build a steam power plant in Saudi Arabia. Under the deal signed on Sunday with Saudi Electricity Co., Hyundai will complete the massive facility with a production capacity of 2,640 megawatts by 2017, the company said in a statement. The plant will be located 135 kilometres (85 miles) north of the southwestern Saudi ...

Ayala Corp (AC) has signed up for another coal project that GNPower is building in Lanao del Norte. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, AC said its wholly-owned subsidiary, AC Energy Holdings Inc, signed a joint venture agreement with Power Partners Ltd Co for the development of a 405-megawatt coal power plant. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Power Partners, together with Sithe Glob ...

Siemens will supply two H-Class gas turbines for the TNB Prai combined cycle power plant (CCPP) in Malaysia, taking the total of H-Class gas turbines sold worldwide to 22. The company will also supply two generators and two steam turbines. The order was placed by Samsung C&T (KL) Sdn. Bhd. (formerly known as Samsung E&C (M) Sdn. Bhd., which will construct the gas-fired power plant on a lump sum turn ...

Shanghai Gas (Group) Company, Ltd. has called on Tractebel Engineering to provide expert LNG terminal project management and consulting services for the expansion of the Shanghai Wuhaogou LNG Terminal in Pudong, China. Tractebel Engineering provides project management assistance, design review and onsite technical assistance for the construction of two new 100,000 m³ LNG tanks and related cryogenic piping, ...

THE sale of New South Wales' largest state-owned electricity generator is bad for the economy, bad for the environment and bad for the hip pockets of consumers, critics say. NSW Treasurer Mike Baird on Tuesday called for expressions of interest for Macquarie Generation's two big power stations: Liddell and Bayswater. They are the latest plants to be offloaded to the private sector after the Tamberlin report ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order for a steam turbine with the capacity of approximately 90 megawatt (MW) to be installed in a pulp and paper plant in China owned and operated by Asia Symbol (Shandong) Pulp And Paper Co., Ltd. a major fiber, pulp and paper manufacturer originated in Indonesia. The steam turbine is slated to go on-stream in 2015. The Chinese pulp and paper plant i ...

A $4 billion Japanese project to build a large coal power plant in Indonesia has hit a snag due to opposition from local residents. About 50 landowners refuse to sell land totalling around 40 hectares that would account for about 20 percent of the site for the 2 million kw plant to supply electricity to 13 million people in central Java state, they said. Unless the land purchase is completed by October 6, P ...