General Electric just closed a deal meant to buy it a seat at the table of the world’s biggest high-voltage transmission grid players. On Tuesday, GE announced the completion of a long-awaited investment and joint venture with China XD Electric Co., one of the world’s biggest transmission equipment makers in a country that’s leading the world in new high-voltage power lines. GE will spend $552.2 million to ...

The Asian Development Bank will be providing a $49.5 million loan for the construction of a cross-border power transmission that will bring hydropower from Malaysia to Indonesia. The loan provided by A.D.B. will be used to finance a 145-kilometer distribution line, distribution feeder extension, and a new substation that will be built to improve the reliability of power in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Additi ...

State-owned electricity company PT PLN are teaming up with PT Astra Graphia Information Technology (AGIT) on an IT project valued at Rp 21 billion (US$1.94 million), in order to lower operational and maintenance costs for transmissions reaching Rp 2.35 trillion in 2012 and to answer calls for more efficiency. The project, dubbed the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), will be implemented by AGIT on PLN’s tra ...

Intergraph® has released Intergraph Mobile Alert, a new mobile application for crowdsourcing incident information. Intergraph Mobile Alert simplifies reporting for citizens. Cities benefit by enlisting the masses to help define and pinpoint issues, such as road or utility line damage. With crowdsourcing to collect data about city infrastructure growing in popularity, Intergraph’s Mobile Alert allows citizen ...

Siemens has successfully installed a massive new high voltage DC converter station in the North Sea that will play a crucial role in supply wind energy to more than 500,000 German homes. The HelWin1 offshore platform will be used to convert the alternating current (AC) power generated by two wind farms, Nordsee Ost and Meerwind, into low-loss direct current (DC) for transmission onto the mainland. Transmitt ...

The transmission line constructed for importing electricity from India will go for test from August 26, a move aimed to rid Bangladesh of nagging power crisis. “We will start energising the transmission line prior to a full-fledged import of electricity from India,” acting Managing Director of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB), Chowdhury Alamgir Hossain said on Saturday. He said 400 kilovolt trans ...

The continued monopoly of state-owned Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) and the lack of transparency in its price calculations have made the latest increase in power prices unpalatable to both experts and other residents. EVN, which produces 70 percent of the electricity in Vietnam, and is the country’s sole distributor, increased electricity prices by an average of 5 percent on August 1, the fifth hike since 20 ...

China’s leading power cable producer Jiangnan Group Ltd. reported a 6% decline in its first half profit due to lower copper and aluminium prices. Jiangnan Group’s net profit was 149.4 million yuan ($24.2 million) in the first six months, or 0.049 yuan per share, the company told Hong Kong Stock Exchange today. The Group’s revenues in all its product categories dropped as selling prices declined as a result ...

China is already building, or has approved, more than half of a $100 billion network of high-voltage power lines to connect remote energy producing regions to the east coast, a top official at the state grid firm told Reuters. The project has been controversial with critics arguing the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the world's biggest utility, is betting too much on costly and untested technology ...

ENERGY bills are set to continue to rise as the nation's largest electricity retailer's boss says the industry can no longer afford the widespread discounting of recent years. Origin Energy chief executive Grant King said customers had done well out of the discounting, despite the fact electricity bills have already grown. Rising bills have not benefitted the energy providers, with Origin's underlying profi ...