APR Energy, a global leader in fast-track power solutions, today announces contract signature for a peaking power plant in Port Hedland, Pilbara, Western Australia. The power plant features four state-of-the-art GE TM2500+ dual-fuel turbines running on clean-burning natural gas. Contracted with the end-user customer, Horizon Power, the plant will run for a term of at least 30 months and will serve as a brid ...

A Japanese court has ruled that Fukushima nuclear operator Tokyo Electric was responsible for a woman’s suicide after the March 2011 disaster and must pay compensation, in a landmark ruling that could set a precedent for other claims against the utility. The civil suit by Mikio Watanabe claimed that Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc (Tepco) was to blame for the July 2011 death of his wife Hamako, 58, who doused h ...

Reports indicate that two state-run enterprises are poised to battle over a government construction project to build a natural gas terminal servicing northern Taiwan. Taipower (台電) previously lashed out against CPC Co. (中油) for supplying natural gas at high prices, according to reports published yesterday. Taipower claimed that if it awarded the northern Taiwan natural gas terminal, its operating costs woul ...

Electricity Generating Plc (Egco), Thailand's second-largest private power producer, wants to diversify to industrial estates, with the first project located on its 500-rai former power plant in Rayong. President Sahust Pratuknukul said Egco had previously planned to redevelop the plant, which fed electricity to manufacturers in Map Ta Phut for 20 years. The gas-fired plant's operating concession from the E ...

China is the world’s top energy consumer, with the vast majority of its electricity coming from domestically-mined coal. But the Asian nation is cutting its dependence on coal, oil and natural gas and replacing it with solar at a breakneck pace. Between January and the end of June, China added 3.3 gigawatts of solar capacity, double the additions over the same period last year, and equivalent to the entire ...

India needs economic growth for sustainable development, which in turn requires access to clean, convenient and reliable energy. An estimated 400 million people still lack access to electricity, and blackouts are still common across the country. A combination of rapidly increasing energy demand and fuel imports plus growing concern about economic and environmental consequences is generating growing calls fo ...

German engineering giant Siemens said on Thursday (Aug 21) it has won a contract worth €650 million (S$1.07 billion, US$862 million) to supply wind turbines to Norwegian power groups Statoil and Statkraft. "Siemens Energy has received an order from the Norwegian energy utilities Statoil and Statkraft for the 'Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm' in Britain," the German group said in a statement. Under the terms of t ...

Ten investors are seeking approval for biomass power projects with an average capacity of 10 MW each, according to the Vietnam Institute of Energy under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. A representative of Tuyen Quang Sugar Joint Stock Company said at a seminar in Hanoi last week that sugar refining firms would have to rely on biomass power generation as a new source of income since sugar prices would st ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved funding worth $217 million for a 290MW hydropower project in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The bulk of the electricity generated by Nam Ngiep 1 will be delivered to neighbouring Thailand, which relies heavily on natural gas. The project is expected to cut around 500,000 tons of carbon emissions in Thailand every year. The Lao PDR has a hydropow ...

State-owned Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) plans to raise up to 20 billion baht ($627 million) by listing an infrastructure fund in the first quarter of 2015, delayed from this year due to domestic political unrest. The proceeds from the initial public offering would be used to finance construction of new power plants and transmission lines, EGAT Governor Soonchai Kumnoonsate told repor ...