After being forced to shut the Dabhol power plant in Maharashtra due to a natural gas shortage, GAIL India and NTPC are considering renting out the 1,967-Mw unit to private electricity generators. Ratnagiri Gas & Power Pvt Ltd (RGPPL), a joint venture between gas utility GAIL and the nation’s biggest electricity generator, NTPC, shut the Dabhol power plant in March after gas supplies from Reliance Indus ...

A five member delegation of China Southern Power Grid Company Limited (CSG), under supervision of Wang Jiuling, visited National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDCL) and met the Company’s Managing Director at Wapda House. NTDCL MD Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman welcomed the Chinese delegation and gave a detailed briefing about operations of NTDC, on-going projects and future expansion plan. In addition ...

The Pakistani state of Punjab has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with British company Pan Africa under which a 100 MW solar power project will be developed in Bahawalpur in eastern Punjab. The 100 MW solar power project is being developed on an emergent basis to overcome the energy crisis in the state according to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif who attended the ceremony. The MoU was signed ...

German solar energy equipment supplier SMA Solar Technology has become the first non-Japanese manufacturer to sell a three-phase inverter certified for the Japanese market. The Japan Electrical Safety & Environment Technology Laboratories (JET) has certified SMA Solar Technology’s Sunny Tripower 10000 TLEE-JP for sale on the Japanese market. The move makes SMA the first non-Japanese inverter manufacture ...

Ming Yang plans to start building 29 3MW SCD two-bladed wind turbines in October and complete installation by the end of 2014. It is the first tranche of a 100MW tender. The province plans to develop 1GW of offshore wind capacity by 2015. The project is being developed by Southern Offshore Wind Power Joint Development Company and controlled by China Southern Power Grid. The Guishan offshore wind farm will b ...

London-listed metals and mining conglomerate Vedanta Resources Plc. plans to increase its operational power generation capacity in India to 10,000 Megawatt (MW) within a year by bringing three operation-ready projects onstream shortly, thereby completing its Rs.50,000 crore power investment cycle that was set in motion five years back, reports said, quoting a senior company executive. One of the largest pri ...

Team Energy Corporation tapped Japan's Marubeni Corporation to expand the capacity of the 735-megawatt (MW) Pagbilao coal-fired plant in Quezon. Team Energy president Federico Puno said the expansion involves another 400 MW of power at a cost of $700 million. An engineering, procurement and construction contract will be signed with Marubeni soon, said Puno. Expansion work will commence after. "Hopefully, we ...

Japan’s Electric Power Development Co, Itochu Corp and Indonesia’s PT Adaro Energy further delayed the schedule for securing financing for their $4 billion coal-fired power plant in Indonesia. The group pushed back the deadline by a year to October 2014 after it faced delays acquiring land, Junichiro Hoshino, a Tokyo-based spokesman at Electric Power Development, or J-Power, said in a phone interview. They ...

Delivering the opening keynote address at this year’s Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) will be the Chief Executive Officer of Qatargas, Sheikh Khalid Bin Khalifa Al-Thani. He will speak about how unconventional gas discoveries have revolutionised the global energy landscape. Sheikh Khalid, who leads the world’s largest LNG producing company, will also offer Qatar’s outlook for gas supply and trade ...

Thailand might lose competitiveness to Malaysia in terms of the cost of electricity if it fails to increase the proportion of coal-fired power plants, according to an official with the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand. Tatree Riewcharoen, director of Egat's corporate communications division, said Malaysia had four power plants using clean coal technology. They are the Manjung plant with 2,100-me ...