TENAGA Nasional Berhad (TNB) has dropped a hint that the electricity tariff in Malaysia in likely to be revised next year, citing the higher cost of fuel in recent years. The recent statement by TNB's president and chief executive officer suggests that the company is looking into increasing the power tariff while stressing that it will not burden households. TNB's electricity generation uses natural gas, co ...

Four new desalination research projects have been selected for funding under the fifth funding round announced by the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia. Researchers at the universities of Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales and Edith Cowan University in Western Australia will work with international research partners Stanford University (USA), Dow Water & Process Solutions and ...

Orix Corp., a Japanese finance and leasing company, and Kyudenko Corp. began building a 11.7-megawatt solar power station in southwestern Japan. The project in Fukuoka prefecture is expected to start operations in January 2015, the companies said in a statement today. Tokyo-based Orix and Kyudenko, a Fukuoka-based builder of power transmission and transformation facilities, have been working together to bui ...

Indian state-owned electric utility Power Grid Corporation, in consortium with National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) and power distributor BSES, has secured a two-year $21m system upgrade contract from Ethiopian Electric Power Service Corporation (EEPCo). "We have taken over the management of their hydro station, distribution and transmission for system improvement," reported the Press Trust of In ...

Thefts from wind farms are threatening the chances of wind development in Rajasthan, India, despite private investment of more than INR140bn ($2.1bn) from wind companies. The Business Standard reports that wind developer Suzlon has seen the majority of its towers become unusable following the theft of equipment, costing it and other companies INR1.5bn over the last 18 months. The region of Rajasthan – Jaisa ...

Burma Rivers Network welcomes India’s cancellation of Tamanthi Dam, and urges China and Thailand to take similar environmental responsibility. In a statement, the organisation stated: The Burma Rivers Network (BRN) warmly welcomes the Indian government’s recent cancellation of the controversial Tamanthi hydropower dam on the, which was planned for export of electricity to India. BRN urges China and Thailand ...

City Council plans to take a closer look at a $24 million project to improve the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant. Councilman Ed Lewis, R-Ward 6, said Tuesday night the city’s share in the proposed project is not specific, and suggested council needs more time to discuss specifics of the plan. Cost of the project is to be shared among Stark County, with some funding provided by the Ohio Water Development A ...

The work on Baglihar Power Project Stage II is to commence shortly as Jammu and Kashmir government plans an additional generation capacity of 9,000 MW in the state in the next few years. "The foundation stone of stage-II of the (Baglihar) project will be laid shortly. This would be a reiteration of the commitment of the government to bring a turnaround in the state's economy by tapping the huge hydro potent ...

Japan's government says it will spend $470 million to help deal with the repeated radioactive water leaks at the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Officials say part of the money will be used to build a wall of frozen earth to block surrounding groundwater from mixing with the toxic water being used to cool the plant's damaged reactors. The plant's operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, has ackno ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), jointly with CTCI Corporation, the largest engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm in Taiwan, has received a full-turnkey order from Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) for a project to construct a natural gas-fired gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) power generation plant with collective power generation capacity of 2,600 megawatts (MW). The large-scale GTCC ...