Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Nguyen Quoc Khanh, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), signed today in Moscow a number of documents to strengthen cooperation between the companies. The signing ceremony was attended by Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime Minister of the Socialist Re ...

To encourage innovation in Smart Nation solutions and capabilities, SAS and Temasek Polytechnic (TP) have jointly launched a Smart Nation Sandbox Environment. Supported by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, the Smart Nation Sandbox Environment platform constitutes of SAS' data management and analytical architecture. TP will host the platform architecture and set forth the participation of end- ...

VRN said in a statement released on May 11 that the project proposed by Xuan Thien Co Ltd would leave huge negative consequences. With a capacity of just 228 MW, it would contribute less than 1% to the nation’s electricity output. What is more, it is not included in a master zoning plan for socioeconomic development in the Red River Delta until 2020, so if the mega project gets the go-ahead, it would negati ...

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) has received an order for three sets of M701 DA gas turbine and generator to be installed at the 400MW Zerger gas-fired power plant for the national utility, Turkmenenergo, in Turkmenistan. The turbines will be supplied to Sumitomo Corporation, which is charged with engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) for the plant. The power generation system is scheduled ...

Electro Power Systems Group Consolidates Its Presence in Asia Pacific, in Partnership with Toshiba The Group has signed an agreement to provide 1MW storage system for a Hybrid Power Plant that will ensure sustainable energy supplies to a mining site in Australia. “We’re very proud to collaborate with a leading player such as Toshiba. This innovative storage solution is a great example of how our advanced te ...

ALE are approaching the final stages of one of its biggest wind energy contracts it has ever secured in Thailand. ALE has been awarded a major contract for the transportation, crane lifting and installation of 24 x 2.5MW turbines to be erected on a project site in Khao Kho and another 30 x 2.5 MW turbines at Watabak, Thailand. The scope involves receiving the components from the vessel in several shipments ...

Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) yesterday said that living near an electric substation is safe, following a media report saying residential complexes close to substations might be exposed to high levels of electromagnetic radiation, with environmentalists calling on the company and the government to assess the long-term health risks of electromagnetic radiation exposure. According a report by the Chinese-languag ...

In the field of water management, Singapore has much to offer. It is a small country, around the size of Hyderabad. It has very few water resources and imports water from Malaysia under the 1961 Johor State Water Agreement. This has forced it to optimise its water management and it has done so admirably. Today, Singaporeans have universal and round the clock access to water which is of such high quality tha ...

GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that it has signed a contract worth approximately $250 million with the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) to provide the company’s advanced grid solutions technologies to substations located in Mostathmereen, Beni Suef Industrial, Ismailia East and Temay Alemdeed. These four Gas-Insulated Substations (GIS) will help connect 7 gigawatts (GW) of power to the nation ...

Memorandums of Understanding for development of distributed generation as well as power and transmission infrastructure In connection with Indonesian President Joko Widodo's visit to Germany, Siemens has signed today two Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with the state power company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN). Both parties agreed on the development of 500 megawatts (MW) of distributed power generation ...