More than 500 delegates from over 50 countries attended the International Water Resources conference in Vientiane, Laos last week focusing on water resources and hydropower development across Asia. The conference centered on the development and engineering of regional hydropower with China, India, Russia, Malaysia and Pakistan boasting some of the largest dams and power plants globally. But environmentalist ...

Hyflux has been awarded a letter of intent for a contract to construct the Ain Sokhna Integrated Water and Power Project in Egypt, it announced in a press release. The environmental solutions firm said the desalination plant, commissioned by the by the General Authority for the Suez Canal Economic Zone, is designed to produce 150,000 cubic metres of water per day. It will feature an on-site 457-megawatt com ...

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) has signed a joint research agreement on new combustion / measurement technology for gas turbines with Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO). The two companies aim to develop new combustion technology that can use low calorific value fuel efficiently, in preparation for the introduction of low calorific value gases. Kim Doo-Young, head of KEPCO's research center, a ...

The Canberra economy is again the winner, with more than $100 million dollars in economic benefits flowing from the final successful proponent of the ACT Government’s second wind auction, Minister for the Environment and Climate Change Simon Corbell announced today. Sapphire Wind Farm in northern New South Wales, to be developed by CWP Renewables, is the fifth successful wind energy project from the ACT’s t ...

WITH the inauguration of the 132.5-megawatt (MW) solar power plant at Barangay Tinampaan in Cadiz City on Thursday, March 3, Negros Occidental would no longer be a power beggar, and could even export power to other provinces, provincial officials said. Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr. said the P10-billion solar farm situated on a 176-hectare lot in Cadiz will be the largest in Southeast Asia and seventh largest ...

Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN) has drawn up a plan to ensure that power supply will meet the anticipated surge in demand during the dry season this year. EVN plans to complete 351 electricity works of 110 kV to 500 kV with a total power line length of 4,800 kilometres across the nation. The dry season, which starts from April to June, is usually a peak time for power consumption. According to a report from E ...

Japanese nuclear waste management specialist Masako Sawai yesterday identified flaws in Taiwan Power Co’s (Taipower) nuclear waste management, describing the contingent measures at the Guosheng Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Wanli District (萬里) and a radioactive waste repository on Orchid Island (Lanyu, 蘭嶼) in Taitung County as “ill-planned and careless.” Sawai, a member of Japan’s Citizens’ Nucle ...

Eric Fleckten (43) has been appointed General Manager of Phoenix Solar Pte Ltd, Singapore. In this position, which he assumed in November 2015, he also oversees the Phoenix Solar Group’s activities in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining Phoenix Solar, he held the post of Director of Business Development Emerging Markets at SunEdison, and before that led the operations of the Dry Sorbent Injection (UCC ...

Water treatment company Metito has signed a licensing agreement with Swiss start-up Biopipe Global AG to offer a novel in-pipe wastewater treatment technology to the Africa and Asian markets. Called Biopipe, the process claims to treat wastewater inside a pipe, which then passes through a filtration stage to complete the treatment. According to a press release from Metito, Biopipe “produces no sludge, no od ...

Earlier this month CTC Global's CEO, Mr. J.D. Sitton, was invited to speak at the 2016 T&D conclave "Elecrama" in Bangalore, India. Mr. Sitton explained to the delegates the importance of leveraging modern conductor technology to increase line capacity and reduce line losses. Using a 33 kV example with an existing 105 mm^2 ACSR "Dog" conductor, Mr. Sitton showed how replacing it with high-capacity composite ...