Under Thailand’s first Smart City Project, Nakhon Nayok province has recently signed a MOU to cover the entire province with broadband infrastructure and enhance the connection among local agencies with high speed internet via optical fibre. Presiding over the signing ceremony, Nakhon Nayok Governor Dr Surachai Sirisaracam said that as the first Smart City, Nakhon Nayok would leverage ICT to strengthen the ...

The Department of Energy has released a circular creating an inter-agency committee to develop a Smart Grid policy framework and roadmap for the power industry. The Smart Grid innovation applies information technology (IT) to electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure, computerizing the entire power grid from the suppliers' end to the consumers' end and automating the gathering of information ...

The Central Electricity Authority has recommended setting up of Bihar's first 4,000 MW ultra mega power project at Kakwara in Banka district, saying that there are no environmental issues related to the chosen site. The decision to zero-in on Kakwara after CEA, the apex planning body for the country's power sector, came after field visits recently to two potential sites for a UMPP -Kakwara and Rajouli in Na ...

A 38-ton wind turbine crashed 50 meters to the ground in Kyoto Prefecture after the steel column supporting it snapped, according to officials. The massive Dutch-made turbine, which sat atop a Japanese-made steel column, was part of a mountain wind farm. It was put up in 2001 with an expected life of at least 17 years. “We are asking experts to look into the cause of the problem. We suspect metal fatigue mi ...

China Longyuan Power Group Corp and Thailand’s Electricity Generating PCL are among shortlisted parties vying to buy a stake in an Australian wind farm. Interest in the Boco Rock wind farm in New South Wales state planned by Continental Wind Partners and Wind Prospect Group underscores how overseas investors are becoming more confident that they can make a profit from renewable energy projects. Early invest ...

Chubu Electric Power has acquired a 49% share of the stocks in an operating company that develops and operates mega solar generation plants at a total of six locations in central and northern Thailand (contract capacity 30.9 MW) from Gunkul Engineering Public Company Limited (hereafter GUNKUL). This marks the first time that Chubu Electric Power has participated in a solar power generation project in anothe ...

The largest U.S. maker of metering devices that save energy and cut waste; Itron Smart Meters Installed in Mumbai Reduced Water Losses by Half. Smart meter use in India’s most populous city eliminated 50 percent of the 700 million liters (150 million gallons) a day of water that’s wasted or leaked by broken pipes, Marcel Regnier, Itron’s chief operating officer for water, said recently from Paris. “The targ ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday officially opened its first big solar energy plant, the three companies behind the project said in a statement. The 100-megawatt (MW) Shams 1 concentrated solar plant (CSP) took the UAE's Masdar, France's Total and Spain's Abengoa three years to build at a cost of around $600 million. Shams 1 is one of the largest CSP projects in the world and by far the largest sola ...

Tajikistan’s Energy and Industry Ministry is planning to build nine mid-sized hydro-power stations on the Sukhrob and Khingov rivers. The planned power stations not only would increase power generation but also would prolong the life of the Vakhsh Cascade system of hydro-power stations. Five power stations with capacity of 160-850MW on the Khingov and four stations with capacity of 400-600MW on the Sukhrob ...

State-controlled coal miner Bukit Asam has secured a 10-year contract to supply coal for Indonesia Power, a subsidiary of state utility firm Perusahaan Listrik Negara. Bukit Asam agreed to supply 51.8 million metric tons of coal in total, equal to between 5 million and 6 million tons of coal a year, for the Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Merak, Banten. Eight units operate at the Suralaya compound with a ...