Alstom was awarded by the Chinese company Sinohydro a contract worth about €58 million to provide electro-mechanical equipment and technical services for Karuma Hydropower Project, Uganda’s largest electricity plant. This is Alstom’s third contract awarded by Sinohydro after successful cooperation of Bui hydropower project in Ghana and Soubre project in Côte d'lvoire. Alstom will provide six 100MW Francis t ...

India's renewable energy industry is likely to generate business opportunities worth $160 billion in the next five years, the Economic Survey said on Friday, the day before a budget that is set to boost clean energy funding. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is banking on renewables to fight climate change rather than committing to emission cuts like China. He has set ambitious clean-energy targets including rai ...

Renewable power producer Mytrah Energy has secured a Rs8,527.8m ($137.5m) loan for 150MW of wind power development in India. The firm intends to use the loan as long-term project finance for the renewable energy project, which is expected to go online within a year. "The project will raise Mytrah's installed capacity to more than 690MW from its current capacity of 543MW." Once operational, the project will ...

Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, today announced the completion of the sale of its Business Line Energy Storage to Johnson Matthey Plc, which was announced on October 29th,2014. The sale was closed on February 28th 2015. “The divestment of the Energy Storage business with its LFP technology is part of our focused portfolio management and reallocating capital towards our core areas Care Chemi ...

Several South Asian and African countries came together to discuss and share their experience in mainstreaming sustainable water management and possible solutions to treat waste water. "Today's session is whole challenge in managing water in South Asia and Africa and outcome of the water which is waste water. The aim of the session is to bring together the countries of Africa, South Asia and India to unders ...

Singapore Foreign Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam witnessed the signing ceremony of a joint water management programme between Singapore and the Public Health Engineering Department of the Government of Rajasthan in Jaipur on Wednesday (Feb 25). The document was signed by Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) and the Public Health Engineering Department of Rajasthan. The Singapore-India joint programm ...

Belden Inc. (NYSE: BDC), a global leader in signal transmission solutions for mission-critical applications, announced today that it has formed a partnership with Shanghai Hi-tech Control System Co., Ltd. to jointly develop, market and sell new industrial networking solutions. HiTe Control is a leading industrial automation systems provider with established divisions throughout China and already a valued pa ...

PV equipment specialist SCHMID Group has sold eight APCVD systems to three undisclosed Asia-based solar manufacturers. Financial and shipment details were not disclosed. Dr. Christian Buchner, vice president and head of business unit PV at the SCHMID Group said: "The current contracts show the great popularity of our technology and should be interpreted as a clear sign of stimulation of the PV industry. In ...

Proinso recently launched a new Engineering, Procurement and Management (EPM) service program across the area. The Program supported by the Asia Pacific Program Management Office located in Brisbane, Australia, offers Technical support, Project Management services and system monitoring and asset management services ensuring consistency of service across the region. Under the program Proinso has already comp ...

TECH company Intelligent Energy (IE) confirmed yesterday it has struck a £1bn, 10-year deal with Indian telecommunications firm GTL. Loughborough-based IE already has an estate of more than 10,000 telecom towers in India, which it supplies with its hydrogen fuel cells. The firm has now reached an agreement in principle with GTL to increase this arrangement to over 26,000 towers. According to IE, the deal is ...