China may wrest power projects away from India in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, thwarting its bid to exert economic and strategic influence in the neighbourhood by developing infrastructure. One such instance is Indian state-run power utility NTPC Ltd’s stalled plan to build a 500 megawatt (MW) plant in Sri Lanka. The island state is now said to favour a Chinese tie-up for the project.   Also uncertain is ...

Intelligent Energy today announced that its proprietary fuel cell technology is providing leading levels of power output and performance for a number of its automotive customers, with the company’s fuel cell stacks demonstrating continuous volumetric and gravimetric power densities of 3.7 kW/L and 2.5 kW/kg, respectively. “We believe that our fuel cell stack technology has achieved industry leading power de ...

A big manufacturing plan of the steel ministry, the proposal for ultra mega steel plants (UMSPs) have been dropped. Steel minister Beni Prasad Verma has discarded the projects developed along the lines of ultra mega power projects (UMPPs), since neither the finance ministry nor state governments support the plan. The projects were conceived in 2008. Four steel plants of 10 million tonne capacity each were p ...

Indian renewable energy owner and operator Greenko has added six new run-of-river hydroelectric plants to its development pipeline, it was recently announced. Funding for the projects will come in large part from the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), which announced that it will invest approximately US$150 million into the projects via Greenko's Mauritius division. The six hydel plants w ...

KSK Energy Ventures, a leading India power development and generation company, and MiaSole, the leading manufacturer of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels and system solutions, today announced that the commissioning of an 11.6MW solar photovoltaic project occurred on February 26, 2013.  The project is under India's Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission and is one of ...

The National Thermal Power Corporation on Monday announced setting up of two solar power plants of 25 Mw and 10 Mw capacity in Singrauli and Unchahar respectively. The central power generation utility in India is already in the process of establishing an 8 Mw power plant in Singrauli. Speaking to reporters, regional executive director, NTPC, Sharad Anand said that the northern region of NTPC is working on ( ...

Japan Asia Group Ltd., a Tokyo based brokerage and aerial surveyor, got a 1.6 billion yen ($17 million) loan from Shinsei Bank Ltd. and Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company Ltd. for Solar Projects. The Japan Asia's Project-Finance Loan For Five Solar Stations is for the building of plants on the northern island of Hokkaido, the company said in a statement yesterday. The five plants will have a combine ...

Ballard Power Systems has announced that Azure Hydrogen Energy Science and Technology Corporation (Azure), Ballard's partner in China, has acquired a 10% ownership position in Dantherm Power, Ballard's telecom backup power subsidiary, for $2 million. Mr. Grand Mao, Chairman of Azure, will become a member of the Dantherm Power Board of Directors and will support the business in achieving commercial success i ...

India should find ways to utilize Myanmar's enormous gas reserves to feed the power-deficit states in the North East following the path of China's Yunnan province, Meghalaya Governor R S Mooshahary said today. Stating that Myanmar could be among the ten largest nations having huge gas reserves, Mooshahary said, India and North East in particular could utilize the gas for power generation. We do not have eno ...

There has been much discussion lately about the financial situation of Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) and the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao District. New Taipei City. Just last week Taipower's Director of Legal Affairs Mr. Hu Ta-ming shared some stark some facts to the media. 'First of all, international fuel prices have surged over the past 10 years. In an effort to support the gov ...