Xylem Inc., the water company whose pumps helped clean tunnels flooded by Hurricane Sandy, has been awarded a contract from Beijing Drainage Group, a state-owned wastewater utility. Xylem will install 19 pumping stations in downtown Beijing as part of the $2.9 million contract, according to a statement from the White Plains, New York-based company. The pumps will improve water storage capability and prevent ...

Sembcorp Industries has officially opened its US$1 billion Wilayat Mirbat Independent Water and Power Plant in Oman. The ceremony was officiated on Sunday by Oman's Minister of State and Governor of Dhofar, Sayyid Mohammed Sultan Hamoud Al Busaidi, and Singapore's Foreign Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam. The facility consists of a gas-fired power plant that has a total gross capacity of 490 MW and a se ...

Japan's Shinsei Bank has signed a project financing agreement with Japan Renewable Energy to provide a ¥10 billion (US$97 million) loan to fund the development of 40MW worth of PV projects. The solar power projects will be built on around 50 hectares of land in the city of Mito and the town of Shirosato in Japan’s Ibaraki prefecture by Japan Renewable Energy. Construction is due to commence in June while co ...

State-owned electricity firm Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) on Monday said it had built two recharging stations for electric cars, and was set to build more in order to support the development of electric cars in the country. PLN said the first two recharging stations were built in Yogyakarta to support the operation of electric minibus Hevina, which was developed by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (L ...

P2 Solar, Inc. has announced that it has acquired a unique renewable energy project to develop a mini-hydro facility in Punjab, India, on the Sidhwan irrigation canal in the city of Ludhiana. P2 now owns the project outright through its new wholly owned subsidiary, Jagat Energy Private Limited and will be moving to begin construction as soon as this summer. The project involves the installation of a 700 KW ...

Westinghouse and China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) will work together to develop a small modular reactor (SMR) design licensable in both the USA and China. A MOU signed by the two companies, which have a long history of working together for the deployment of AP1000 pressurised water reactors (PWRs) in China, will see them establish a partnership to develop an SMR based on Westinghou ...

A desalination plant to make sea water potable is being planned near Gopalpur in Ganjam district of Odisha. Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) has planned to install a 5-million litre per day (mld) capacity plant to meet the industrial and potable drinking water requirements for its Odisha Sands Complex (OSCOM) at Matikhala near Chhatrapur, according to official sources. The Rs 112.90 crore project is schedu ...

Indonesia opened a rights tender for 21 oil and gas exploration blocks on Friday, four of which are for unconventional gas concessions on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, as Southeast Asia's largest economy moves to shore up its energy security. Besides two shale gas blocks and two coalbed methane blocks, the tender includes 17 offshore blocks that are mostly in the eastern half of the archipelago, accord ...

Welspun Energy today said it has been sanctioned Rs 120 crore loan for its 20 MW wind power project at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. The company has received a sanction exceeding Rs 120 crore as against a debt requirement of Rs 88 crore. The entire project cost has been funded on a 75:25 debt equity ratio. Welspun Energy Solar Rajasthan is a fully owned subsidiary of the company had signed a Power Purchase Agreem ...

LDK Solar, the Chinese solar-panel maker that has reported seven straight quarters of losses, said it agreed to provide 500 MW of wafers to Realforce Power Co. The company will start shipments this month through December 2014 to Realforce, a solar-cell and panel maker in China’s eastern province of Shandong. Financial details weren’t disclosed. LDK reported last month that it had a net loss of $517 million ...