Heidenheim, Germany. Last Thursday, Liberian Energy Minister Patrick Sendolo visited the technology group Voith to find out about the company's hydropower offering. In the process, the Minister also learned more about the status of the Mount Coffee modernisation, which is currently Liberia's only hydropower project. “I am delighted to have the opportunity to get my own impression of current activities on th ...

The Australian Utility sector ICT spending growth will remain moderate at 2.0% five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to 2018. IT investments by utilities companies remain focused on delivering cost savings and efficiency gains, but change is in the wind. Utility sector business priorities highlight the increasing importance of customer related initiatives. These changes are also reflected in the role ...

KOMIPO announced on May 5 that it has started construction of the Semangka Hydro Power Plant on Sumatra Island, Indonesia. This is the second development project in Indonesia, following the Wampu Hydroelectric Project in 2011. Indonesia's Semangka Hydroelectric Power Plant Project will have a construction period of two years and seven months from now and be completed in Sept. 2017. The project includes an e ...

Alstom T&D India, a leading player in the power transmission business, has been selected to lead the smart grid pilot project by Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board. This pilot project will be located at the Kala Amb industrial area of Himachal Pradesh in Northern India and will serve over 1,500 consumers. This will be the second out of fourteen projects under the Indian Ministry of power's flagshi ...

Growth in the global membrane chemical market to 2020, will be led by the wastewater sector according to market analyst Future Market Insights (FMI). And desalination was expected to witness the highest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.4% in the global membrane chemicals market between 2014 and 2020. Growth will be fired by demand for process water among end-users such as the municipal, power, food ...

Emerson Process Management has launched Energy Advisor, a real-time energy management information system that automates the process of monitoring and managing energy consumption across mills, plants, and refineries. With real-time, meaningful information about a site's energy performance, process manufacturers can identify inefficiencies and irregularities and take corrective action, saving on average 5 to ...

European industry group EU ProSun requested the benchmark review. The group said the number of Chinese companies reporting data to be included in the benchmark has “increased significantly” since early 2014 and the prices provided by these businesses “have historically been lower than prices reported by other companies,” according to the commission. “The sufficient evidence submitted by the applicant sugges ...

Nepal's investment board on Monday cleared China's Three Gorges International Corp to build a long-delayed $1.6 billion new hydropower project, the single biggest foreign investment in the Himalayan country. A Nepal parliamentary panel first approved the project in 2012 but state-owned Three Gorges had been waiting for the investment board's clearance. The project is forecast for completion by 2021-22 and o ...

AFC Executes Heads of Agreement with Bangkok Industrial Gas for 10MW of Fuel Cell Development in Thailand AFC Energy plc (AFC.L), the industrial fuel cell power company, is pleased to announce it has executed its first Heads of Agreement in Thailand to initiate a programme of commercial fuel cell deployment with a leading Thai industrial gas company, Bangkok Industrial Gas Co. Ltd (“BIG”). Highlights Initia ...

More companies have filed applications with the Energy Department to develop new wind power projects in Ilocos Norte province, which is already home to three major wind farms. Energy Development Corp., owner of the 150-megawatt Burgos wind project, currently the country’s largest wind facility, has four other pending applications to develop wind projects in the province, according to data from the Energy De ...