Transgrid has announced it is reviewing its planned Dumaresq to Lismore line upgrade. The state owned corporation is responsible for the electricity transmission network in NSW and was planning a $250 million upgrade to the poles and wires to cater for future population growth. But Transgrid's general manager of network planning and performance, Stephen Clark, said their latest data suggests the project wou ...

Following protests over its plan of converting the oil-fired unit-6 in Trombay facility to a coal-fired one, the Tata Power Company will now arrange for visits by NGOs, activists and locals to change public perception about the plan. The experts’ appraisal committee (EAC) of the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) had, last week, asked Tata to submit a compliance report and carry out some tasks befor ...

B.Grimm Trading Corporation (BGTC), an affiliate of the B.Grimm Group, expects revenue growth of at least 50% each year until 2030 on the back of an Energy Ministry plan for more gas-fired power plants. The company, which distributes imported engineering products, last year achieved revenue of 819 million baht from its four business units _ electrical, mechanical, air-conditioning and heat-recovery steam ge ...

State-controlled inspection firm Sucofindo has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Institute of Energy Research, a South Korean nonprofit research institute, to introduce technology that could upgrade the quality of its coal. The technology will use waste or residue from palm oil to increase the calorific value of coal, turning it into medium-rank coal, which typically has a calorific value ...

Mr. Imad Makhzoumi Executive Vice President and member of the board of Future Pipe Industries (FPI), a leading global provider of fiberglass pipe system, was recently invited by KPMG and Global Pipe Australia to be the guest speaker in a reception held in Melbourne, Australia. At this exclusive event Mr. Makhzoumi addressed an audience of around 50 senior executives from the Energy, Water and Financial sect ...

Melbourne’s low-income households will be hardest hit by water price hikes of up to $222, the state's peak welfare body says. Water bills across Melbourne will rise an average 22.4 per cent, plus inflation, from Monday, mostly to cover the cost of Victoria's desalination plant. The increase, however, is less than original proposals from water retailers, who wanted increases of between $269 and $355. The Vic ...

Farmers in Fukushima Prefecture are turning to "solar sharing," a process in which they can generate solar power on the same land where they grow crops and sell the power to utilities. The farmers are hoping to sell the power to help cover the losses they are suffering because of the nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. To help farmers recover from the effects of ...

Residents have had a sneaking suspicion about it for a while, but it's now official: Metrowater has been supplying only about 75% of the water it says it distributes to the city for the last month. For the first time since a failed monsoon triggered a water crisis, Metrowater officials-who have been maintaining that the usual 831 million litres of water a day was being supplied to the city-admitted that the ...

Eyre Peninsula could get its desalinated water from Adelaide, according to members of the Port Lincoln Liberal Party branch. Vice president Brad Flaherty has contacted the state and federal governments suggesting a marine pipeline be constructed to bring fresh water from the mothballed Adelaide desalination plant across Gulf St Vincent to Yorke Peninsula, and then across Spencer Gulf to Eyre Peninsula. Memb ...

PUB and the United States' Environmental Protection Agency will work together on safe drinking water research, watershed management, R&D for innovative water and wastewater treatment, water reuse, and other areas of mutual interest. Singapore's national water agency PUB and the United States' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will work together on safe drinking water research, watershed management, ...