Technical experts from Ukraine and Uzbekistan will visit Bihar early next year to explore the possibilities of investing in the energy sector in the state. This was conveyed to the CMD of Bihar State Power Holding Company Limited (BSPHCL), P K Rai, during his recent visit to Almaty in Kazakhstan to attend the two-day global meet on 'Attracting foreign investment in advanced fossil fuel technologies'. Rai sa ...

Kansai Electric Power Co. asked the government for permission Monday to hike household electricity rates by an average 11.88 percent from April 1, after seeing its business worsen due to rising fuel costs from running thermal power plants to make up for the loss of atomic energy. The Osaka-based utility would become the first after Tokyo Electric Power Co. to resort to rate hikes since Tepco's Fukushima No. ...

Infrastructure major Lanco Infratech Ltd has done a Reliance Power in securing long-term debt from the Chinese banks and institutions. Lanco has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the China Development Bank (CDB), a bank owned by the government of Peoples Republic of China, to arrange $2-billion debt for two power projects — Anpara Phase II and Himawat. Each of these projects has a capaci ...

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is advising a Pakistan-based biogas company on the development of a waste-to-energy plant in the Karachi area, turning a serious environmental problem in to a renewable energy resource. The plant, to be built by Karachi Organic Energy, will convert cow manure into electricity while producing organic fertilizer as a byproduct. IFC will provide KOEL—a joint venture betwe ...

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) will coordinate a joint effort of the Government of India’s Department of Biotechnology and the European Commission to document biomass production and bio-waste availability in the country. Christened the ‘Sahyog project’, the Indo-European initiative seeks to establish a road map through a joint initiative on what the European Union and its member States could do t ...

Faced with acute shortage of power, the five southern states will press the Centre to ensure adequate coal allocation, particularly to the generating stations in the public sector, in line with the performance of the power utilities. At the southern zonal council meeting involving chief ministers of five southern states on Friday, the states will collectively impress upon Union home minister Sushil Kumar Sh ...

Indonesian government linked company PT Rekayasa Industri was chosen as a contractor of engineering, procurement and construction for a project to convert Arun LNG plant into a receiving terminal. Pertamina has developed the project and invited competing bids in April 2012. Finally it selected Rekayasa among the five participants. However, it will need more time for Pertamina to sign formal EPC contract wit ...

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) reiterates the need for public solutions to address electricity demand in the country, following frequent disruption of natural gas supply from Myanmar in the past few years. The latest supply disruption took place after Myanmar was shaken by a powerful earthquake early morning of Nov 11. Pongdit Potejana, EGAT spokesman, said that natural gas now acco ...

Protective measures are being put in place by the Korean Electric Power Company (Kepco) to mitigate and prevent more incidents of coal dust affecting residents living near its power plant in Naga City. Last November 13, the Naga city government issued a cease and desist order (CDO) to Kepco for the loading and unloading of coal, after at least 10 residents from Barangay North Poblacion here complained of co ...

Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., a Japanese producer of energy fueled by organic materials, plans to cut its dependence on coal by using more biomass such as wood chips, a senior executive said. “As an industry that consumes a lot of power, we need to take measures to promote energy conservation,” Senior Corporate Executive Officer MasafumiNakao said in an interview at the company’s Tokyo headquarters. “Wood chip ...