The water industry landscape in the region is expected to face challenges in 2015 stemming from varied factors such as intense competition from new start-ups and non-conventional water companies, socio-political uncertainties, and new government regulations pertaining to public-private partnerships. 2015: Asia Pacific water industry to witness greater activity in M&A space Despite the rough economic con ...

Efficient, energy-neutral, safe and truly communal, towns of the future may look a lot like the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town. The pioneering project, 50 kilometres south of central Tokyo, is the brainchild of Panasonic and 18 companies keen to put their cutting-edge technologies in the areas of energy, construction, security and the utilities to the test. The first families have moved into the initial ph ...

The proposal was made at a meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Joint Committee in the Laotian capital of Vientiane last week to review the six-month consultation which ended over a week ago on risks and benefits of damming. The previous national and regional consultation processes showed that the information provided by the project investor lacks statistics and measures to minimize the negative imp ...

Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems said on Monday it had received a 74 megawatt turbine order for a wind project in China. The order was for 37 units of the V100-2.0 MW turbine for the Yunnan Jianshui Qikeshu wind farm in the Yunnan province of China, Vestas said in a press release. The contract includes delivery, installation and commissioning of the wind turbines, as well as a two year s ...

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Ltd has had one of its GAC-series gas turbines pass 8,000 hours of cumulative operating time in a combined cycle power generation system. The GAC series is one of MHPS's major products having been launched in 2009. Currently 27 units are on order with 15 going to the U.S., four for Canada, three for Korea and five for Japan. The machine is also built under license by Doosan ...

Brakes India, a leading auto parts firm, has set up a 7.72-MW solar power plant at its facility at Munanjipatti in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu. The plant involved an investment outlay of about Rs.66 crore. It has been set up under the Group Captive Scheme without involving any subsidy mechanism. SunEdison, solar energy services firm, set up the plant for Brakes India. The plant has been set up to mee ...

BEIJING — Chinese and Argentine leaders on Wednesday signed a batch of agreements, including collaboration on two new nuclear power plants, as Beijing is strengthening its relations with the South American country. On a state visit to China, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the two countries signed 15 agreements covering travel visas, information t ...

Zeversolar continues its solar revolution Chinese PV inverter manufacturer doubles sales and minimises failure rates After having completely redesigned and extended its photovoltaic inverter portfolio in 2014, Zeversolar is now planning to double its sales and become one of the leading PV inverter manufacturers in its budget segment. While completely redesigning its portfolio, the Chinese manufacturer has e ...

Landis+Gyr, global provider of energy management solutions, and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), global technology communications and services provider, have created a partnership to address the Middle East’s Smart Metering and Smart Grid transformation projects. Under the terms of the partnership, Ericsson and Landis+Gyr will support utilities across the region with solutions that deliver key data required to culti ...

Hyundai is soldiering on with its fuel-cell-powered Tucson, ordering an enormous cut in the zero-emission CUV's price in the company's home market. The 43-percent reduction, when combined with subsidies from the South Korean government, brings the cost of entry to a still-lofty $54,000. While that's undeniably a lot of money, we need to explain just how wildly expensive the Tucson FCV was in the first place ...