India will shortly start construction on Rs.3,642.04 crore Kishanganga hydropower project after International Court of Arbitration at The Hague having ruled in its favour. Pakistan had questioned the “legality of the construction and operation of an Indian hydro-electric project” under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960. India had said that building the dam was within its rights. The treaty regulates the use o ...

Additional water will be released from Vajiralongkorn dam in Kanchanaburi province in April to power extra hydro-electricity generation when gas supplies from Myanmar are disrupted for routine maintenance. After discussions with the Royal Irrigation Department and other government agencies under the Water Monitoring Sub-committee, Kitti Tancharoen, assistant governor of the EGAT, said it was agreed that 35 ...

Odisha will set up a dedicated public sector company, Green Energy Development Corporation, to provide focused attention to developing small hydro power projects in the state, quoted Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. "We have developed several hydro power plants in the state with an installed capacity of about 2,100 MW. Of late, the ratio of hydro power in the mix of power is reducing because the demand for po ...

Mitsubishi Rayon Co. has entered into a distributor agreement with the Vietnamese engineering firm Greentech Environment Joint Stock Co. to strengthen its water treatment-related businesses in Vietnam. Through Greentech, Mitsubishi Rayon will market membrane bio-reactor (MBR) hollow fiber membranes for use in wastewater treatment equipment installed in hospitals, hotels, factories and other facilities. Esta ...

The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has finally decided to determine the upfront solar power tariff for projects on the basis of proposed 23.2934 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) as laid down by the Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB). An official document said Nepra has decided to initiate suo motu proceedings for determining upfront solar power tariff for projects on the basis of ...

JinkoSolar announced this week that it has signed an agreement with China Three Gorges New Energy Corporation to deliver a total of 600MW of high-efficiency solar panels. The three-year strategic cooperation agreement between the two companies will run from 2013 to 2015, and make use of JinkoSolar’s solar panels in an installation in western China. “We are very pleased to sign this long term large contract ...

According to estimations of German experts, if the EU implements it plan of introducing antidumping duties for solar panels from China, this would very likely be disastrous for European producers of solar batteries. Solar batteries production would reduce in Europe, and mass dismissals would start. EU leaders noticed long ago that solar panels from China are sold in Europe for much cheaper prices than their ...

The municipal corporation of Anantapur in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh is set to become the first municipality in the country to set up a solar project to power its water pumping operations and street lights. The impressive plan includes installation of a 5 MW solar PV project in the city. The project will be connected to the state’s power grid and will power the water pumping and street lights ...

Controversial turbine manufacturer Enercon India surprised the industry earlier this year when it revealed it had decided to drop the Enercon name and rebrand itself Wind World India (WWI). The company has been involved in a legal dispute since German manufacturer and partner Enercon cancelled a licensing agreement between the two companies in 2007. This dispute has included the use of the Enercon name and ...

Siemens has delivered a new 2.5MW version of its 2.3MW turbine, specially developed for the Asian market, to a 50MW project in eastern China. The turbine, which has a 108-metre rotor and targets medium wind speed locations, has been designed in conjunction with Shanghai Electric. According to Siemens, the new machine has received upgrades to the power conversion system. It is manufactured at the Shanghai na ...