Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) and Japanese contractor Marubeni Corporation has broken ground on a US$1.27 billion thermal power station in the northern province of Thai Binh. The project in the province’s Thai Thuy District is 85-percent funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency official development assistance (ODA) and the rest is funded by EVN. The station included two plants to supply a total capac ...

The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) headquarters in Manila is now meeting all of its energy needs from renewable sources, following a geothermal power supply agreement with AdventEnergy Inc., a licensed retail electricity supplier of Aboitiz Power. The headquarters is now powered by 100% renewable energy generated by geothermal plants in Tiwi in Albay province and Makiling-Banahaw in Laguna province, both of ...

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) has set new roles for its subsidiaries for overseas business expansion. According to Egat governor Soonchai Kumnoonsate, the Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Plc (Ratch) will be mainly responsible for investment in the development of power plants in Myanmar’s Salween River. Ecgo group will focus on the plans to establish a coal-fired power pla ...

JA Solar, a global leading manufacturer of high performance solar cells and modules, will launch its PERCIUM module and RIECIUM module in global exhibitions since February, 2014. The products have already been successfully launched in CleanTech Summit & Exhibition in Israel on 18 th  February and will show up in several upcoming exhibitions such as PV Expo in Japan on 26th February, Ecobuild in UK in Ma ...

Alstom India, leader in power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure, gained on Tuesday after it has been awarded a contract worth around Euro 30 million to equip the 2 x 89.3 MW Shuakhevi Hydropower plant located in Georgia. Alstom's share of the contract is worth around Euro 20 million Euros. The aim of the project is to supply Georgia as well as Turkey with clean renewable energy to meet ...

President Barack Obama Monday approved a civilian nuclear pact with Vietnam which could lead to the sale of US reactors to Washington's energy-hungry former war foe. US President Barack Obama speaks to the members of the National Governors Association in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, on February 24, 2014 The move by the president formally opened a 90-day review process in Congress. ...

Amata B Grimm Power, one the largest small power producers (SPPs) in the country, has inaugurated two co-generation combined-cycle plants, Amata B Grimm Power (Rayong) 1 and 2. With a total investment value of Bt10 billion, the power plants have a combined generating capacity of 246 megawatts, of which 180MW is supplied to the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) under a 25-year SPP power pur ...

The government has been warned that it would fail to implement the wind power development strategy if it does not raise the buy price to UScent12-13.5 per kwh. The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) now buys electricity at UScent7.8 per kwh from ashore wind power plants and UScent9.8 from the plant at sea, in accordance with a Prime Minister’s decision released in mid-2011. However, the low prices set by the gove ...

 AVEVA announced today that NGLTech Sdn Bhd. (NGLTech) has chosen AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) as its first and primary 3D design tool. NGLTech is a technology development and licensing company focusing on developing innovative solutions for the improvement and enhancement of processes in upstream oil & gas. The advanced functionalities of the new AVEVA design software will play a strategic role in th ...

-Demonstrating the growth potential for its new Distributed Power business, GE (NYSE: GE) today announced it is nearly finished supplying Navigat Energy Pte Ltd. with 100 gas engines for on-site power projects throughout Southeast Asia. The 100 natural gas and ecomagination qualified biogas gas engines will be installed at various sites in Indonesia and Thailand and produce a total of 330 megawatts (MW) of ...