Thai firm signs $350m 220MW Myanmar generating station deal Thailand’s Green Earth Power Company has signed an agreement with the government to move forward on its plans to spend US$350mbuilding a 220-megawatt solar-power generating station near Minbu in Magwe Region, it was reported. According to Green Earth managing director, U Aung Thiha, the facility will sit on 850 acres that are not suitable for agric ...

ABB has won an order worth around $55 million from Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) in United Arab Emirates (UAE) to build a substation that will integrate power from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park. The gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) substation will enhance transmission capacity, boost power supplies and strengthen the reliability of the grid. The 100MW Phase II of the solar pow ...

Overseas wind turbine makers have seen their market share on the mainland shrink and two Sino-foreign joint ventures have either ended in divorce or struggled to flourish in the world's largest wind power market. Industry executives said their troubles were partly due to aggressive capacity expansion by local firms that focused on short-term volume and market share gains at the expense of long-term, sustain ...

DNV GL, a leading global energy advisory and testing authority, today announced the latest advancement in its Smart Cable Guard solution. In addition to the existing capability that allows system operators and industrial asset managers to detect and locate partial discharges on-line, Smart Cable Guard now immediately pinpoints, within 1% accuracy, the exact location of a fault in a MV cable system and reduc ...

The state-run power company KEPCO is trying to develop its smart grid technologies as a new export item. To that end, the company plans to spend $155 million between 2015 and 2017 on comprehensive tests of related technologies, which are believed to be helpful in reducing spending on power, and greenhouse gas emissions, while boosting energy saving and efficiency. The company unveiled its three-stage action ...

Testing and certification company TUV Rhineland has opened a new solar PV module testing facility in Asia. The move would help the company take advantage of the booming solar power industry in India. TUV Rhineland is expected to release the results of the first batch of testing done on solar PV modules in India over the next month or two. The results would be of great utility to prospective project develope ...

Enerkem Inc. (www.enerkem.com), a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer, today announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding ("MOU") with Shanghai Environmental Group Co. Ltd., a municipal solid waste management company and a subsidiary of Shanghai Chengtou Holding Co. Ltd., to develop a project partnership to jointly build municipal solid waste-to-biofuels and chemicals facilities in China . The ...

October 27, 2014, Shanghai, China – The 2014 ExxonMobil Forum of Chinese Equipment Builders was held in Shanghai today. Experts from ExxonMobil Product Technology demonstrated lubricant technology innovations that deliver the benefits and competitive advantages in safety, environmental care, and productivity.   To support the development of the latest lubricant technology, ExxonMobil has announced the ...

Thai firm Green Earth Power Company has signed an agreement with the government to move forward on its plans to spend US$350 million building a 220 megawatt solar power generating station near Minbu in Magwe Region. The facility will sit on 850 acres that are not suitable for agriculture, and will take three years to complete, said Green Earth managing director U Aung Thiha. “The first stage will see 50 meg ...

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501 / “Hitachi”) and Veolia Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE and NYSE: VE), through its subsidiary OTV (“Veolia”), announced today that a consortium formed by their two companies, along with Egyptian engineering firm ArabCo, has received an order from the Iraqi Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of pretreatment faciliti ...