The first unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) Tuesday night stopped operations due to a feed water problem, states a report on Wednesday. The 1,000 MW unit, which was resynchronised with the grid Oct 25 night, was stopped at 8.03 pm on Oct 29 due to feed water problem and is expected to re-start operations on Nov 1, according to a Power System Operation Corporation Ltd report. Power System Opera ...

The November 26 Mumbai terror attack has stalled plans to form an inter-connected electricity grid among South Asian nations. India has shelved a proposal to establish 220 kilovolt (KV) links with Pakistan after the Mumbai outrage that killed 183 people, which the Indian government strongly claims was orchestrated by Pakistan-based terror groups. India intended to import 500MW of electricity from Pakistan t ...

Telstra will deploy fuel cells as an alternative to back-up battery arrays at mobile base stations and small telephone exchanges. The carrier's director of asset and facilities management, John Romano, said Telstra has included fuel cell technology as the standard back-up power source for sites that consume less than 5 kiloWatts an hour. The telco has spent the past several months testing the efficacy of fu ...

State-owned PetroVietnam and Rosneft are expected to sign two upstream pacts and a crude oil sales deal during Russian President Vladimir Putin to Vietnam early next month, PetroVietnam said Wednesday. One is to do with PetroVietnam's participation in the South Russky block in the Pechora Sea and West Matveyevsky in the Barents Sea. Also on the anvil is a memorandum of understanding on Rosneft's acquisition ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co should be stripped of the responsibility for shutting down its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, according to a draft proposal by a panel of Japan's ruling party. Tokyo Electric, or Tepco, has been widely criticized for repeated missteps, poor planning and a lack of disclosure in its efforts to clear up the site of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. A task forc ...

A Chinese company has bagged a P30-billion contract to construct the 405-megawatt coal-fired power plant of FDC Misamis Power Corp. in Mindanao. FDC Misamis, a unit of Filinvest Development Corp., said it would hold groundbreaking ceremonies, marking the start of the power plant’s construction at the Phividec Industrial Authority in Misamis Oriental next month.  Commercial operation of the plant is expected ...

Yokogawa India, a subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric, has secured a contract from NTPC to provide control systems to each of the three units at the Kudgi supercritical coal-fired thermal power plant in Karnataka, India. Under the contract, Yokogawa will supply CENTUM VP integrated production control system, DPharp EJA series differential pressure/pressure transmitters, oxygen and liquid analyzers, a CCTV syste ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has decided to increase the amount of U.S. shale gas it will purchase from 2017 as fuel for thermal power generation to 1.5 times its initial plan, or 1.2 million tons a year. The move will be included as a centerpiece of TEPCO’s cost-cutting measures in the new management reorganization plan to be compiled as early as December. Shale gas is 30 percent cheaper than the liquefied nat ...

In a strategy aimed at cushioning the impact of expensive imported coal, power major NTPC Ltd is in final stages of launching an ambitious plan to move this coal from the high seas to its generating stations through inland waterways, starting with its Farakka plant in West Bengal. The very first consignment for Farakka — a ship bearing 69,060 metric tonnes (MT) of imported coal — has already arrived at Sand ...

Air Liquide Japan and Toyota Tsusho Corporation have signed a partnership agreement for a hydrogen supply business for fuel cell electric vehicles in Japan. According to this agreement, the two companies will establish a new JV company (Toyota Tsusho 51%, Air Liquide Japan 49%). As a first step, the new company will build two hydrogen filling stations in Japan in the Aichi area (Atsuta in Nagoya and Fukada ...