The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued guidelines to set up 100 MW solar power capacity (PDF) over and along the canals in the country. The program will see solar photovoltaic power projects of capacity 1 to 10 MW installed over canals and on the banks of the canals in India. The total cost of the program will be around $160 million, out of which about $38 million will be provided as f ...

One of four heavily damaged reactor buildings at Japan's tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear power plant has been cleared of radioactive fuel rods, the operator said on Saturday (Dec 20). It was a significant step in the decommissioning efforts, but workers still have three heavily crippled reactors to clean up after they were sent into meltdown in the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster. The overall clean-up work o ...

Alstom has been awarded a contract by DaeMyoung Energy Corporation, subsidiary company of DaeMyoung GEC, a large engineering and construction services company in South Korea to provide wind turbines for Gowon wind farm. The wind farm is located in Gangwon province approximately 170km east of Seoul. Alstom will supply and supervise the installation and commissioning of 6 units of the ECO 110 Wind Turbines wi ...

Trans-Asia Renewable Energy Corp., a unit of Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp., said it has fully completed and commissioned all 27 wind towers of the San Lorenzo wind farm project in Guimaras province. The project now contributes 54 megawatts of clean and renewable power to the grid. The wind farm started delivering power to the grid as early as Oct. 7 this year. Trans-Asia Renewable invested P6. ...

Alstom T&D India has bagged an order of about Rs 151 crore order from Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd (RRVPNL) to supply a 400/220 kV substation in Bhadla and expand the existing 400/220 kV substation in Bikaner. The new 400 kV grid substation in Bhadla to be set up by the Indian unit of the French firm will help evacuate power from the Bhadla solar park and other upcoming solar parks in the a ...

Power sector investors and suppliers alike, take heed. The Philippines and its Southeast Asian neighbors will be the largest markets in smart meters and interactive networks by 2024. Southeast Asian countries will invest $13.6 billion in smart grid infrastructure between 2014 and 2024, according to Northeast Group LLC. By 2024, the largest markets will be Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philip ...

Since last year after CHE Group Bhd securing the Vietnam biomass power plant contract, the company has not stop since then. CHE continue to nurture the rest of the biomass projects in other countries. CHE Group has entered into a MoU with Full Advantage Inc. in the Philippines to develop a total capacity of 191 MW of electricity using the energy crops as feedstock for the biomass power plants located in the ...

AVEVA today announced it is bringing its Unlock the power of your Digital Asset event to New Delhi after a very successful debut in Chennai. The event explores AVEVA’s approach to the creation, management and sharing of a Digital Asset which delivers significant technical and business benefits to Engineering, Procurement and Construction contractors (EPCs) and Owner Operators (OOs). A Digital Asset that is ...

Japan is working on doing for the hydrogen fuel cell what it accomplished with computer chips and cars in the last century, slashing costs to make them more appealing to consumers. As fuel-cell technology finds its way into factories and commercial buildings, Japanese manufacturers including Panasonic Corp. are working to make them small and cheap enough for the home. The country has set a goal of installin ...

The Russian Direct Investment Fund will team up with an Indian partner to invest $1 billion in hydroelectric projects in Asia's third-largest economy, the head of the Russian state fund said on Wednesday. The RDIF and India's IDFC, a leading infrastructure investor, will each commit $500 million to projects under a deal to be signed on Thursday during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India. Prime ...