Asia’s second-biggest power utility by value, will almost double purchases of coal from outside India this fiscal year to curb fuel shortages at its plants, said two company officials familiar with the plans. The state-run Indian company will import 17 million metric tons of thermal coal in the year started April 1, compared with 9 million tons the previous year, the people said, asking not to be identified ...

The government of Sri Lanka have announced plans to construct a new coal power plant in the southern province to cope with rising demand. Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board W.B. Ganegala stated that the plant will be constructed with help from Japan. Ganegala noted that the proposed coal power plant in the southern province will have a capacity of 500 megawatts. However, a decision is yet to be made o ...

Construction of the plant is being overseen by the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) and the 10-km-long pipeline is being carried out by the National Water Company. Prominent figures at the launch included Prince Mishal Bin Majed, Governor of Jeddah; Abdullah Al-Hussayen, Minister of Water and Electricity; Abdulrahman Al-Ibrahim, Governor of SWCC; and Luay Musallam, Executive President of the Natio ...

The Indian government plans to roll out a Rs 43,000-crore ‘green energy corridor’ project to facilitate the flow of renewable energy into the national grid. The blueprint for the project has been submitted to the Power Ministry by Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL). For implementation, the project would be split into intra- and inter-State, said a senior Power Ministry official. The ‘green energy c ...

Ormoc City may well become the renewable-energy capital of the world in an exciting development for the Philippines renewable energy efforts. Aside from its vast geothermal resource, the city will soon host a solar power plant touted to be the biggest of its kind in Asia. This was learned during the courtesy call of a Korean investor to Mayor Eric C. Codilla. Young J. Soon, chief operating officer of Philip ...

President Ma Ying-jeou has promised to consider revising the renewable energy law after a wind power company complained about restrictions on selling electricity directly to clients. Ma made the promise during a visit to the coastal Changpin Industrial Zone in Central Taiwan where there are many wind turbines. He met with energy officials and company representatives to learn about wind power operations ther ...

LSIS signed an agreement in Samseong-dong, Seoul for the technology license and support for HVDC projects and was selected as a manufacturer with the joint venture KEPCO-ALSTOM Power Electronics Systems (KAPES) set up by Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and French power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure company Alstom. KAPES was established at the end of 2012 to secure HVDC tech ...

You'd expect, or at least hope, that members of the solar industry walk the walk when it comes to designing environmentally friendly offices and factories of their own. And though we don't know much about Sputnik Engineering's office and production building at Biel, Switzerland, its designer, Burckhardt+Partner, claims the building's electricity is provided entirely by renewable energy. It's not remotely su ...

The momentum for a big push into community solar projects appears to be gathering pace, with several different organisations planning public launches in the next month, and suggestions that several dozen projects could be built on NSW rooftops in coming years. Among plans revealed this week are the launch of a community solar network Farming the Sun in the northern Rivers region, to be followed soon by simi ...

China’s Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited is continuing to expand its business interests in the Asian region with the announcement that it will supply 10.269 megawatts of solar modules for projects in Malaysia. “We are delighted to make this breakthrough in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is a very promising photovoltaic market given its rich solar radiation, serious lack of electricity and governm ...