Bangalore Water Supply abd Sewerage Board (BWSSB) Chairperson Gaurav Gupta, on Friday, said the board had to switch off its pumps for the first time in 30 years after the water crisis became unmanageable since May 17 this year. Addressing a panel discussion on ‘Critial Water Situation’ in Bangalore, he accused Bangaloreans of not using water judiciously. Former Additional Chief Secretary V Balasubramanian s ...

Chinese investors are getting active in Vietnam’s power sector investment. For example, the Vinh Tan 1 build-operate-transfer (BOT) coal-fired thermal power plant, based in southern Binh Thuan province with 1,200 megawatt annual capacity, is the first Vietnam-based power project with Chinese businesses acting as the project key investors. China Southern Power Grid Company Limited (CSG) and China Power Inter ...

South Korea's Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) plans to form a consortium to bid for European nuclear fuel producer Urenco. The Netherlands is willing to sell its 33 per cent stake in Urenco, which is also owned by British and German utilities E.ON AG and RWE AG. The three countries are in complicated talks about selling a stake in the security-sensitive uranium enrichment firm. KEPCO is seeking to form a ...

The government of Tajikistan and the World Bank have been the two main driving forces behind the implementation of the Central Asia South Asia power export project widely known by its acronym CASA1000. This project envisions erecting thousands of kilometres of high-voltage electricity transmission lines at the cost of around US$1 billion. Once completed, the project will make it possible for the export of a ...

Once the Smartgrid plan is implemented in India by Power Grid Corporation, it expects to prevent tripping and help in smooth flow of power. But, as a sequel to setting up the Smartgrid, state electricity distribution companies will have to upgrade their inter-state checking transmission systems. According to Power Secretary, P Uma Shankar, the southern region, which is not connected to the National Power Gr ...

Indian energy giant Adani Group is planning to build a $300 million electricity transmission mine to its proposed mine in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland. Despite growing speculation some of the Galilee mines, including Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal, may not proceed because of the falling coal price, Adani has flagged plans to build a 250-kilometre high-voltage line from Powerlink's Strathmore substat ...

An electricity outage that blacked out large swathes of the Philippines' main island of Luzon for up to eight hours last month has highlighted worries about a potential power crisis that could undermine Asia's fastest-growing economy. Predictions that electricity demand will outstrip government forecasts have raised fears over the impact on the expansion of industries such as call centres, tourism and gamin ...

State-run Taiwan Power Co is considering purchasing natural gas and building a receiving station in Taiwan in a bid to cut energy costs, a top company official said yesterday. Taipower president Chu Wen-chen said the company might stop purchasing energy through state-run oil refiner CPC Corp, Taiwan, as the development of shale gas in the US has contributed to lowering the price of natural gas. Taipower’s l ...

On June 3, Hyundai delivered the first ix35 Fuel Cell vehicle in Europe, to the City of Copenhagen in Denmark, and production of the company's hydrogen-fuelled vehicle began in February. That means that its first production hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle is now on the roads, albeit at low planned volumes (like most fuel-cell cars). Hyundai says it will build 1,000 of the hydrogen-fuelled compact crossover by 20 ...

KDDI Corp., Japan’s second-biggest mobile phone company, will build three solar plants in central Japan with a combined capacity of 8.8 MW to take advantage of the country’s incentive program for clean energy.  The Tokyo-based company will build a 3.5 MW station in Tochigi prefecture with plans for a 3.3 MW and 2 MW plants, both in Ibaraki prefecture, it said in a statement. The plants will be built on idle ...