Myanmar has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Korea to build a 500-megawatt power plant which will use natural gas and garbage to generate power. The signing ceremony was held between Myanmar's Hexa International Company and Korea Western Power jointly with Korea Electrical Manufacturers Association on September 3 at Sedona Hotel in Yangon. The power plant will be built in Thakayta Towns ...

State-owned Bhel today said its electronics division here has bagged an order worth Rs 96 crore from NTPC to set up a 15 MW-solar power plant in Uttar Pradesh. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) order is for design, manufacture, testing, erection and commissioning of the 15 MW grid-Interactive solar power plant at Singrauli in Uttar Pradesh,the company said in a statement. BHEL will execute ...

The Chinese backer of the Myitsone dam project says more than half the funds to construct the multi-billion-dollar project have already been paid to Burma, although the project was suspended last year. Sixty percent of a total $3.6 billion in investment to build the controversial hydropower dam project in Kachin State has been paid, according to Wang Qiyue, director of China Power Investment Corporation (CP ...

The development of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) appears to be gaining momentum. Toyota Motor and Honda Motor have announced plans to start selling FCEVs in 2015. Hyundai Motor of South Korea also has a similar plan. The success of FCEVs will depend largely on whether carmakers can price them competitively and how widespread hydrogen stations become. Conventional electric vehicles that rely on batteri ...

Amata B Grimm Power Group expects the money it raises from selling units of its infrastructure fund (ABPIF) will finance two of the 11 power plants it plans to set up by 2019. Each plant will require an investment of Bt2.5 billion, so this funding source could support about two of them, as ABPIF is worth Bt6.3 billion to Bt6.6 billion, said group president Preeyanart Soontornwata. She said the group would n ...

Vestas has received two orders totalling 100 MW from Ningxia-based Hanas New Energy (Hanas), the leading regional natural gas supplier in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR). Less than a month ago, Hanas ordered 50 MW from Vestas, which brought Hanas' portfolio of Vestas turbines up to 250 MW. With today's two additional orders, Hanas' portfolio of Vestas turbines amounts to 350 MW and Vestas remai ...

Leitwind Shriram Manufacturing, an India-European joint venture between Shriram Group and Windfin BV (formerly Leitwind BV) which makes wind electric generators; has received a Rs 346 crore for the supply and installation of machines from Neyveli Lignite Corporation for a a 51 MW wind farm at Kaluneerkulam near Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu. This order follows Leitwind's recent completion of the supply, erectio ...

Welspun Energy Ltd commissioned a 20 mw wind power project in Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan. Developed within three months, the project uses ten wind turbines for generating an average annual net production of 43.1 gw-hour. Welspun Energy Solar Rajasthan Pvt. Ltd., a fully owned subsidiary of the company had signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Ltd. The pro ...

Germany's Wirsol Solar and Greenpower Capital, through their Japanese JV, have announced the acquisition of a 22 MW utility scale PV installation in Japan. The project was initially developed by Japan's Chikyu Factory Service. The Japanese PV market continues to present opportunities for foreign PV development and financing firms. The latest announcement comes in the form of an acquisition of a project by a ...

Highlighting GE’s technical expertise and regional capabilities in support of the country’s Small Power Producers (SPP) Program, GE and Bangkok-based power plant developer Bangpa-In Cogeneration Ltd, a subsidiary of CK Power Plc., have announced the signing of a $33 million service agreement. Under the agreement, GE will provide inspection and planned maintenance services for 12 years for two GE LM6000-PD a ...