DuPont, US chemical giant with diverse interests, is in talks with solar panel manufacturers to ascertain the feasibility of new products the company plans to unveil in India. "For our new product, E-Frame, we are currently in discussions with some of the leading Indian solar panel manufacturers to validate the concept and evaluate product feasibility in the Indian installations," said Rajaram Pai, business ...

The state-owned hydropower company NHPC Ltd has decided to also focus on developing thermal power plants in India in a move that will put it in direct competition with another state-owned company, NTPC Ltd. The main reason would seem to be the long-gestation period of hydropower projects as well as delays in clearances. With projects that will generate 3,808.5 megawatts (MW) delayed due to issues such as di ...

Pakistan has commenced spadework on the 1,000MW nuclear power plant being built with the Chinese assistance near Hawkes Bay in Karachi, unnamed sources have revealed. A part of the Karachi Coastal power project, which involves construction of two nuclear reactors having a production capacity of 1,000MW each, the $4bn plant is scheduled to be inaugurated by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, on a later da ...

An agreement signed between the United States and Vietnam earlier this month could allow U.S. companies to sell nuclear technology to Vietnam. The deal still needs to be ratified by the U.S. Congress, but the agreement has nonetheless put what some critics say are Vietnam’s overly ambitious nuclear power plans in the spotlight. On October 10, Secretary of State John Kerry signed a civil cooperation agreemen ...

Hundreds of Malaysian tribespeople blockaded the construction site of a new dam on Thursday that is set to force them from their homes in Sarawak on the island of Borneo, activists said. The Baram dam is the latest in a series of controversial hydroelectric mega-dams planned by the Sarawak government as it pushes economic development in one of Malaysia’s poorest states. Indigenous Kenyah, Kayan and Penan pe ...

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world’s largest solar companies, announced a quicker and more cost effective method, using Zep Solar® technology, to install PV arrays for commercial and residential roof applications. Suntech will showcase its new Zep CompatibleTM module at this week’s Solar Power International (SPI) Exhibition, booth #243. Zep Solar mounting and grounding products are purposefu ...

A 13 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic (PV) power plant, marking the first phase of Dubai’s Dhs12 billion Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, has gone live, it was announced on Tuesday. The facility is now the largest operating solar PV plant in the region. The plant was connected to the emirate’s electricity grid 195 days after breaking ground in March 2013. Spread across an area of 238,764 square meters, ...

Army scientists have been working to cut down on the fuel consumption of forward operating bases in order to lower the costs associated with such bases. Lowering fuel expenditure is not the only focus of the Army, of course, as it also intends to increase its use of renewable energy as directed by the U.S. Department of Defense. The federal agency considers energy to be a matter of national security and has ...

Meralco PowerGen Corp. (MGen), the power generation unit of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), has acquired the 20 percent stake of First Metro Investment Corp. (FMIC) in Global Business Power Corp. for P7.15 billion. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange yesterday, Meralco said MGen and FMIC have signed a shareholders’ agreement to complete the sale of FMIC’s 20-percent stake in Global Power, a powe ...

China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC), reputed to be the number one Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor in China for international power plant construction has stated that it would contribute almost 2,000megawatts of electricity to Nigeria. Speaking at the inauguration of the 500megawatt-capacity Omotosho Power Plant built under the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) in ...