Metso Oyi, a Finnish engineering company, plans to expand its biomass business in China and India as growing urban populations drive up energy demand, while European governments cut back support for clean power. The growth of Asian cities adds to waste as well as energy consumption, offering opportunities to use that waste as biomass, Martin Ridderheim, vice president of Helsinki-based Metso’s power busines ...

Phinma-led Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. is expanding its power generation portfolio in northern Mindanao, where it plans to build a P13-billion, 135-megawatt coal-fired power plant to address the growing demand on the island. According to Trans-Asia president Francisco Viray, the project was still in the early stages with the company still under the pre-engineering component. The company also ...

Given the government’s grand plan to build up power plants at mega capacity of 20,000 megawatt (MW) in two phases until 2018, Indonesian energy providers are keen to see it as lucrative business as they already had captive market and resources to fuel their business. Embracing private power provider firms, the Indonesian government has set ambitious plans to build new power plants in two phases, with 10,000 ...

NTPC will invest nearly Rs 12,000 crore for setting up 1,600 MW first stage of the Lara thermal project in Chhattisgarh. NTPC's announcement today comes a day after the company increased its generation capacity to 39,674 MW. The board of directors of NTPC, during a recent meeting, approved an investment of Rs 11,846 crore for the first stage (1,600 MW) of the Lara Super Thermal Power Project in Chhattisgarh ...

Nearly 46,400 MW of indigenous coal-based power plants are running with just up to three days of fuel stock. This may lead to a risk of complete shut down of power stations and blackout if there is a disruption of coal supply even for a day. According to the Central Electricity Authority, as on November 7 almost 35 power plants are at super critical stage. An electricity generating station is considered sup ...

The Indonesian government has decided to reduce the amount that coal miners must sell in the domestic market this year by 18 percent due to lower consumption by power plants. Miners must allocate 67.3 million metric tons of coal under the so-called domestic market obligation, down from the previous requirement of 82.1 million tons, said Edi Prasodjo, the coal business director at the Energy and Mineral Reso ...

Consumers will have to pay twice as much for electricity by 2017 if power generation still relies on natural gas, and the options of nuclear or coal are not included in the National Energy Development Plan. To rectify this, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is revising its power development plan and will propose it to the government soon. The revised plan will increase the number of co ...

The improved performance was mainly attributed to a RM750 million fuel cost compensation, a lower coal price and steady electricity demand. Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) has posted a net profit of RM1.0 billion for the fourth quarter ended August 2012, bettering a net loss of RM322.5 million in the comparable quarter a year ago. The improved performance was mainly attributed to a RM750 million fuel cost compens ...

The foundation stone for the first biogas plant in Jayanagar is set to be laid on Monday. The constituency generates around 32 tonnes of garbage. Of this, 11 tonnes are dry waste and 21 tonnes are wet waste. They will be separated, and the wet waste will be used for biogas. The plant will have a capacity of around 50 tonnes. “The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will be putting up 16 bio methanatio ...

The joint venture Bangladesh India Friendship Power Co. (BIFPCL) will soon start primary works to set a 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant at Rampal in Bagerhat district, near the Sundarbans mangrove forests. The state-owned Power Development Board of Bangladesh and the state-managed National Thermal Power Co. (NTPC) of India are the partners of the joint venture BIFPCL, formed in January this year. Different ...