Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has completed the final shipment of turbine rotors for the first AP1000 nuclear power plants under construction in China. The Japanese engineering company held a ceremony at its Takasago Machinery Works to mark the completion of the order for turbine rotors for the four reactors under construction at Sanmen and Haiyang. The company secured the order jointly with China's Har ...

Corrison in a near-new high-voltage power transformer bought by Delta from Indonesia has been linked to a failure that caused a power surge across Dunedin. Delta chief executive Grady Cameron confirmed corrosion had been found inside one of two new high-voltage transformers - each costing $500,000 - installed at the city's ''crucial'' Halfway Bush substation in December. Both transformers were bought from I ...

The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) wants to repair the transmission facilities that connect the Agus hydroelectric plant to the grid to help improve power supply in Mindanao. In a petition before the Energy Regulatory Commission, NGCP asked that it be allowed to upgrade the 59-year-old switchyard located in the vicinity of the Agus 6 hydropower facility. “It is high time that NGCP rehabilitat ...

Ethiopia will receive funds from China for a transmission line valued at $1 billion that will bring electricity from a hydropower plant to the capital, Addis Ababa according to a government official. The 619-kilometer (385-mile) link from the 6,000-megawatt Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River will be constructed over the next three years by China Electric Power Equipment and Technology, D ...

With the Veeranam water supply being suspended Chennaities are more concerned lot. With summer looming large, the fear of water scarcity has made people to look for alternative arrangements. However metro water officials allayed fear of water scarcity and exuded confidence that that the capital city would be able to avoid the water scarcity as the Krishna water is all set to reach the city by May. The decre ...

China Hydroelectric Corporation, an owner, developer and operator of small hydroelectric power projects in the People's Republic of China, today announced that it has closed its previously announced sale of the Yuheng hydroelectric power project, a 30 MW project located in Fujian province. This sale, for total consideration of approximately $44.3 million, has resulted in net proceeds of $20.8 million to the ...

Two subsidiaries of Bouygues Construction have signed a US$50m contract for the design, construction and maintenance of three photovoltaic power plants in the Tak and Sukhothai provinces of north-east Thailand. Bouygues Thai and Bouygues Energies & Services are carrying out the work for solar energy producer Soleq Solar Thailand. In total, the three solar farms will be equipped with more than 100,000 ph ...

China's Sinopec Group, Asia's largest oil refiner, said on Thursday it agreed to sell a stake of 30 percent in an oil and gas block in Myanmar to Taiwan's CPC Corp, one of a series of deals between state-owned energy giants and the Taiwan firm. Sinopec, the parent of Hong Kong-listed Sinopec Corp , gave no financial details of the transaction of block D, which is awaiting approval from regulators, nor did i ...

Indonesia intends to put up 36 solar power plants in 2013, particularly in remote and border areas. According to Alihudin Sitompul, the director of renewable energy and energy conservation at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, the government’s plan is to increase the number of solar power facilities to 153 this year, from last year’s 117. To date, Mr. Alihudin said the central government and its ...

Tata Power today said it has commissioned its 21-MW wind power project in Rajasthan. Tata Power has an operating capacity of 397 MW in wind power which is spread across five states- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Karnataka. Its South Africa JV with Exxaro called Cennergi has been shortlisted as preferred bidder for two wind projects of 234 MW, including 139 MW Amakhala and 95 MW Tsitsikamma ...