As the global population soars by about 74 million people a year, water shortages are becoming more severe. About 300 million people in rural China had no access to safe drinking water in 2005, according to the website of China’s Water Resources Ministry. At current rates of growth, the demand for water worldwide may exceed supplies by 40 percent by 2030, according to the World Bank-sponsored 2030 Water Res ...

Transgrid are to move ahead with animportant transmission relocation for Xstrata’s Mangoola Coal mining project. Environmental consultant, Umwelt, has completed a detailed Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Project, which received approval from the Minister of Planning and infrastructure in July 2012. The Mangoola 500 kV Relocation Project will involve the relocation of an existing transmission line on X ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order for 4 sets of a 700 megawatt (MW) class supercritical pressure steam turbine and generator, plus supercritical boiler components, to be installed at a large-scale, heavy oil-fired power generation plant that will be built by Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), a state-owned power company in Saudi Arabia. The 2,800 MW class power plant, which is to b ...

Alstom Bharat Forge Power (ABFPL) have bagged an order worth Rs 2,251 crore from NTPC for supplying three supercritical turbine generator islands (TGI) for the state-run power producer's 1,980 MW coal-fired power project in Bihar. A 'turbine generator island' comprises turbine building and its installed components. The company, a joint-venture between Bharat Forge and Alstom Power Holdings, has received the ...

The new $13 million visual intercom system in Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town, the largest in the world, connects 8,760 apartments through 178 entrances in 89 towers to each other, with a central command system, security and fire-alarm lines, and was delivered from Israel by way of Japan. The company behind the system, Elbex, was founded in Japan by an Israeli, David Elberbaum, in 1974 and has since grown into ...

Welspun Energy, country's renowned name in the solar sector will be successfully commissioning two more plants in the state of Rajasthan by the end of next week. The completion marks Welspun's efficiency, which has managed to complete its projects well ahead of schedule. The 15-megawatt and 20-megawatt projects in Jodhpur district were expected to be starting from 26 February. The company has already set up ...

Mytrah Energy Limited (MEIL) gears to become the largest wind based independent power producer in India by installing a capacity of 310 MW of power from wind assets. In Andhra Pradesh, the company has a total capacity of 63 MW of wind assets in Vajrakarur in Anantapur district. Over Rs 400 crore has been invested for the project in Vajrakarur. A capacity of 37.4 MW in Burgula in Kurnool district is under co ...

With China seemingly on a dam-constructing spree over the Brahmaputra, including one near the point where the river enters India, the government has given the go-ahead for a big Hydropower Project in Arunachal Pradesh to mark India's stake in a river that is in many ways a lifeline of the strategic northeast. Officials said China's 510 MW capacity Zangmu dam, being built on the Brahmaputra bend section, 'wi ...

Saudi Arabia's Saudi Saline Water Conversion Corp. (SWCC) is planning on building a New Water Desalination Plant, according to Arabian Business. The project is not expected to be complete until 2018, but is in the state utility’s budget for this year. Once it’s built the plant is said to have a capacity of 600,000 cubic meters per day of desalinated water. Water consumption in the desert country is increasi ...

A New State Grid Corporation of China Smart-Grid Project, using passive optical networking (PON) technology, which could not only help it deliver electricity more efficiently across the country, but also turn it into China’s next broadband service provider. The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) has connected around 86,000 premises to its smart grid so far, with a target of 100% smart-meter penetration ...