The US government yesterday charged Chinese wind-turbine company, Sinovel Wind Group Co and three people of stealing trade secrets from US supplier AMSC. In a grand jury indictment, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Sinovel, its deputy director of R&D Su Liying, technology manager Zhao Haichun, and a former employee of AMSC's Austrian subsidiary, Dejan Karabasevic, of stealing proprietary softw ...

The government has given the green signal to the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) to install clear water meters with automatic meter reading (AMR) and GSM technology for 1,318 bulk consumers. The government on Saturday issued a GO to HMWSSB managing director to take up the implementation of the Rs 12.58 crore-project to install clear water meters to bulk consumers. Chetas Cont ...

Solar-products maker ReneSola Ltd. said it restarted production at its Sichuan polysilicon plant Monday, following upgrades to the plant's furnaces and hydrochlorination technology intended to help lower production costs. The Chinese company had halted polysilicon production in November to complete the upgrades, which included new proprietary reduction furnaces and improved proprietary hydrochlorination tec ...

Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corp. plans to increase production of drinking water in the Islamic holy city of Mecca by 29 percent to a record 670,000 cubic meters a day, al-Madina reported, citing Abdulrahman Al-Ibrahim, the company’s governor. The state-run company said earlier this month that the city of Jeddah, the kingdom’s second-biggest city, is being supplied with 1.2 million cubic meters a ...

Malakoff will acquire the entire share capital of Meridian Wind Macarthur Holdings, which operates Macarthur Wind Farm under a joint-venture agreement with Australian-listed AGL Energy Ltd. Malakoff Corporation Bhd is acquiring a 50 per cent stake in an Australian wind farm for A$130mil (RM382mil) from New Zealand state-owned Meridian Energy Limited. Under the share purchase agreement, Malakoff will acquire ...

Vestas is to supply 51 turbines for the 106.8MW Taralga wind farm in New South Wales, Australia. The Danish manufacturer will manufacture and ship a mix of 1.8MW V100, 2MW V90 and 3MW V90 machines through the second half of this year and the first quarter of 2014. Construction of Taralga is slated to take 17 months and the facility is slated for full operations by November 2014. The deal with Taralga Wind F ...

Melbourne households could see the ''water use'' component of their water bills increase to encourage water wallies to save more water, under a new strategy released by the state government on Monday. As part of the strategy, launched by Water Minister Peter Walsh, households would also be given more flexible pricing options to suit their circumstances. Melbourne's Water Future draft plan aims to save Victo ...

The fourth unit of China Huadian Corporation's (Beijing) Shatuo Hydropower Station, the last project in the cascade development scheme of the Wujiang River, passed the 72-hour, continuous, full-load trial operation and was put into commercial operation on June 13, 2013. The project has achieved its objective to put all four units into operation in one year. Completion of the project also means the developme ...

Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced that it has been awarded an exclusive module supply agreement to PV modules totaling 91MW for Soleq Solar Co. Ltd. power plant projects in Thailand. "We chose to work with Canadian Solar because of their vast industry experience and track record delivering high quality modules to large scale solar power projects worldwide ...

More than 1,300 GW of wind and solar power generation capacity are expected to come online in the next 10 years, creating an unprecedented amount of instability on the grid--particularly in key markets within North America, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific. As grid operators adapt to increasing levels of variable generation on their systems, energy storage systems (ESSs) will become an integral element of t ...