India has decided to allow some power companies to pass on the costs of foreign coal to customers, a minister said on Friday, in a move likely to boost imports and investment in power generation but bring higher prices. The policy will apply only to power stations that rely principally on domestic coal and buy imports to make up for local shortfalls, however. Tata Power Co, one of the country's best known u ...

Two new projects aim to reduce treated water losses and ensure continuity of service for people in India  LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. and NEW DELHI, INDIA — June 19, 2013 — Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that it is helping address water conservation and efficiency in India by delivering advanced automation technology. Itron has been selected by Larsen & Turbo, the largest construction company in Ind ...

Pakistan has asked the Manila-based Asian Development Bank to help finance two coal-fired power units at the Jamshoro thermal power station in Sindh, a senior official of Pakistan's Water and Power Development Authority revealed this week. Zafar Umar Farooqi, chief engineer at the authority, said Pakistan had initially sought a $433 million ADB loan for one 600-megawatt unit but the bank has now been asked ...

South Windsor manufacturer ClearEdge Power has sold a fuel cell to a key financial center in Korea, the company announced Wednesday. ClearEdge will install one of its PureCell Model 400 kilowatt units at the Busan International Finance Center's Landmark Tower, in a deal with Samsung Everland. This is ClearEdge's first installation in the city of Busan and the fourth deal with Samsung Everland, which has ins ...

The Indian power sector is facing a series of big challenges in financing, big demand and supply gap in electricity power, serious AT&C loss etc. The country has been in an endeavor to move towards smart grid with government and industry initiatives for the past two years. Recently the government funding for smarter grid pilots has been delayed. However, in the discussion with international investors an ...

As China’s photovoltaic industry has frequently encountered anti-dumping and anti-subsidy in foreign countries, most people focus on the solution that the government adopts to deal with the crisis. Thanks to cost reduction and emerging market exploitation, PV industry is gradually seeing recovery and positive development. However, many corporations are still facing hard times at the moment.   “The puni ...

High levels of a toxic substance called strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, announced TEPCO today. Strontium-90 is a by-product of the fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear reactors as well as nuclear weapons, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says on its website. The discovery of rising levels of such radioactive material is lik ...

Soonchai Kumnoonsate, Deputy Governor for power plants at the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat), has been selected by a committee to become the new Governor of the organisation. The selection committee, chaired by Deputy Permanent Secretary for energy Kurujit Nakornthap, on Wednesday reported the result to Egat's board, saying that Mr Soonchai had the highest assessment score of the three ...

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) says that a new coal-fired power plant in Dawei will benefit both Thailand and Myanmar. Confirming mutual benefit for Thailand and Myanmar from the new coal-fired power plant, EGAT Governor Sutat Patmasiriwat acknowledged on Tuesday that his agency has studied the new power plant project in Myanmar's planned Dawei industrial estate zone and found that ...

Sharp Develops Concentrator Solar Cell with World's Highest Conversion Efficiency of 44.4% and Sets New Record with Concentrator Triple-Junction Compound Solar Cell Osaka, June 14, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency of 44.4% , using a concentrator triple-junction compound solar cell. These solar cells are used in a lens-based concentra ...