The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a ground-breaking agreement in partnership with 13 banks to support Beijing Enterprises Water Group Company (BEWG) to promote high standard wastewater treatment and reuse in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The $288 million B-loan agreement, signed today, is the largest such loan arranged by ADB. The B-loan is part of ADB's financing package to the project, w ...

It was not exactly crossing Checkpoint Charlie, but the four Malaysian journalists who walked out of Siemens’ gas turbine manufacturing plant in Berlin into a cool drizzle, realised that it was a historical landmark. As we ended a three-day tour of the engineering giant’s gas and steam turbine operations in Germany, we took a hurried final look at the plant − or more specifically, towards the facade of one ...

The International Energy Agency Photovoltaic Power System Programme (IEA PVPS) on Monday published its 19th Trends in Photovoltaic Applications report examining PV market, industry, policy and research trends and activities as well as the integration of solar into the power sector in the 24 countries reporting to the IEA PVPS program. The IEA PVPS' participating countries include Australia, China, the Unite ...

The United States welcomes the agreement announced today between Afghanistan and Pakistan over transit pricing for the Central Asia South Asia electricity transmission project (CASA-1000). This marks an important step in bilateral relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and one of the first foreign policy achievements of the new government of national unity in Kabul led by President Ashraf Ghani and Chi ...

Alstom Renewable Power Chairman Jérôme Pécresse and DCNS Marine Energy and Infrastructures Division Director Thierry Kalanquin were on hand on 13th of October as both groups signed a partnership agreement in the floating wind energy business. The agreement aims at developing and then commercialising an integrated system for a semi-submersible floating wind turbine delivering 6 MW. The groups will combine th ...

Wärtsilä and two Indonesian partners on Wednesday signed a joint development agreement with the intention of creating the first ever bio-LNG plant in Indonesia. The co-signers of the agreement with Wärtsilä are PT Pertamina and PT Godang Tua Jaya (GTJ), a waste utilization sector specialist company. Wärtsilä Oil & Gas Systems will conduct a feasibility study for the project to develop a mini bio-LNG pla ...

ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) has said interests in Iran’s discovered Farsi offshore block are still alive, reported Indian newspaper BusinessLine. Company’s managing director Narendra K Verma said there is nothing that suggest that India is out of race. “We have been interacting with Iranian authorities… negotiations are not yet concluded.” Media reports have suggested that Iran has put the Farzad-B gas field on a ...

New Customer Network Center is dedicated facility giving Alcatel-Lucent customers hands-on experience with advanced technologies to create new services and virtualized network functions Paris, France and Tokyo, Japan, October 09, 2014 Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has today opened an innovative facility in Tokyo designed to give service providers and enterprise customers hands-on experience ...

Asia has taken the lead as the wind power capital of the world as a surge in installation activity in China has led a recovery in the global wind energy sector. In its half yearly report for 2014, the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) said the overall volume of global added capacity came in at 17613 megawatts (MW) in the six months to June – up from 13,978 and 16,376 in the first half of 2013 and 2012 re ...

A boom of nuclear power is underway in major Asian countries despite Japan's experience with Fukushima. Growth in China continues unabated; India is planning and making major nuclear power investments; challenges in South Korea will not impair long-term growth; and emerging Asian countries are also expressing interest. The story of nuclear power in Asia overall is one of consistency and growth for the first ...