Japan is gearing up to launch fuel cell vehicles as the next-generation of environmentally safer cars. Oil distributors have started to establish hydrogen station networks, while the government is set to provide financial assistance and is considering deregulation to make it easier to set up the fuel supply networks. Fuel cell vehicles are powered by electricity generated through chemical reactions of hydro ...

The Building a pipeline in Queenstown New Zeland to transport Cardrona wastewater to Wanaka looks increasingly likely as initial assessments indicate the project is both technically and financially feasible. Queenstown Lakes District Council infrastructure and assets general manager Erik Barnes said the proposal to pipe wastewater out of the Cardrona Valley to the Project Pure treatment station near Wanaka ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) announced today the completion of its acquisition of Pratt & Whitney Power Systems (PWPS). The acquired company will now be known as PW Power Systems and will be a core asset for a recognized global leader in the power generation industry. MHI is at the forefront of innovation and has set the standard for high-efficiency power generation products by developing the ...

India is calling in specialist quality control monitors to stop poor quality coal imports getting through to its import-reliant power plants. Indian utilities complain that poor quality coal reduces the efficiency of power stations, requiring more fuel and an increased need for the costly disposal of pollution. Last month, India's largest utility NTPC refused to pay for coal viewed as substandard, prompting ...

The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the country's largest energy distributor, announced on Friday that it has signed an agreement with Singapore Power Limited to buy partial stakes in the latter's two Australian assets. Under the deal, which was signed here on Thursday, the SGCC will purchase a 60-percent stake in SPI (Australia) Assets Pty Limited (SPIAA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Pow ...

Fuji Electric has announced that it has developed a product designed specifically for hydrogen fuel production. This product is meant to be incorporated into existing fuel cell products in order to make them more alluring to the Japanese market. Hydrogen fuel has managed to capture a great deal of interest in this market, but much of this has been reserved to the transportation sector. Fuji Electric believe ...

Shanghai-listed Sinovel Wind Group Co Ltd, China's largest manufacturer of wind turbines by market value, has just lost its second chairman in two months, the company announced Wednesday. After Wei Wenyuan, chairman and acting president of Sinovel, formally announced his intentions to resign from the turbine maker Monday, the company's board of directors voted in Wang Yuan as its new chairman and Liu Zhengq ...

Manufacturers in Myanmar's two biggest cities are facing steep increases in costs and possible job losses after the government shut down their electricity supply, the latest sign that the ageing power grid is holding back economic development. The country's Electricity Supply Board said it had halted power supplies to industrial zones outside Yangon and Mandalay from Monday due to drought. "If this situatio ...

A start-up from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has launched its first overseas water treatment plant in Vietnam. Located at Duc Hoa, at Long An province near Ho Chi Minh City, the newly-built plant is about the size of a five-room HDB flat but has an output of 1 million litres of drinking water daily. The high-tech remote-monitored plant built by NTU's new start-up, De.Mem Pte Ltd, will supply clean ...

Toronto-based private investment firm JCM Capital has announced plans to co-develop and fund costs for approximately 100MW of PV projects in Japan. The company said it would focus on projects of 10MW and larger, and was seeking partners to develop project sites of 40 hectares and above. JCM will fund project costs through to the construction-ready stage and rely on its construction and long-term financing p ...