The state-run power company KEPCO is trying to develop its smart grid technologies as a new export item. To that end, the company plans to spend $155 million between 2015 and 2017 on comprehensive tests of related technologies, which are believed to be helpful in reducing spending on power, and greenhouse gas emissions, while boosting energy saving and efficiency. The company unveiled its three-stage action ...

Oorja Protonics, Inc., the global leader in liquid fuel cell technology, today announced that Charles Shalvoy has joined as president & CEO, replacing Sanjiv Malhotra who resigned his post to pursue other interests. “Oorja now needs to strengthen its organization, expand its manufacturing capability to meet greater demand, and accelerate the development of new products. Charlie has repeatedly accomplish ...

Southeast Asian countries will invest $13.6 billion in smart grid infrastructure between 2014 and 2024, according to a new study by market intelligence firm Northeast Group. This investment will include smart metering and the modernization of electricity transmission and distribution networks with sensors, communications and software. By 2024, the largest markets will be Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singa ...

New Customer Network Center is dedicated facility giving Alcatel-Lucent customers hands-on experience with advanced technologies to create new services and virtualized network functions Paris, France and Tokyo, Japan, October 09, 2014 Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has today opened an innovative facility in Tokyo designed to give service providers and enterprise customers hands-on experience ...

Space-Time Insight, the leading provider of next-generation situational intelligence solutions, and NEC Corporation have announced the formation of a partnership for the smart energy market. Under this partnership, NEC has concluded a preferred sales contract covering Japan and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region with Space-Time Insight for the sale of several of the company's real-time visual analytics applicat ...

Trilliant has signed a contract with EVN HCMC, a subsidiary of EVN, the largest power company in Vietnam, for a smart grid project. The announcement was made following the contract signing ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City, which was attended by Mr.Tran Khiem Tuan, Deputy General Director of EVN HCMC, Chief of Staff Clark Jennings and Regional Manager Mark Dunn from the U.S. Trade Development Agency (USTDA), and ...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed today between PowerStream and the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), South Korea's only electric utility, has set the framework for the two companies to work together on a project which will be of mutual benefit. The MOU, signed by Mr. Brian Bentz, PowerStream President and CEO and Dr. Cho, Hwan-Eik, KEPCO President and CEO, in an official ceremony at PowerS ...

NEC Asia Pacific partners with the Economic Development Board (EDB) to develop Smart Energy Solutions in Singapore NEC Asia Pacific announced today their partnership with Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) in developing smart energy products and solutions in Singapore. This partnership will focus on product research and solution development in the areas of energy management & control, smart gr ...

Singapore Power (SP) won the ‘Smart Grid Project of the Year’ award at the Asian Power Awards 2014 today, for its programme with Silver Spring Networks, Inc. SSNI, -0.82% to enable deregulated energy services in Singapore. This was enabled by SP's successful deployment of a smart infrastructure networking platform, with nation-wide coverage, through Silver Spring’s IPv6 technology. Since April 2014, SP has ...

The Chinese government have proposed a new $16 billion investment which would stimulate growth in the country’s electric vehicle (EV) market. According to a GlobalData report, China currently has over 70,000 EVs on its roads but is planning to increase this number to five million, including plug-in hybrid vehicles, by 2020. Strategic planning and the country-wide installation of DC and level-2 charging will ...