In a few years, the expanded city can hope for improved water supply, thanks to yet another desalination plant. Chennai Metrowater has initiated process to set up the third desalination plant in the city. The water agency recently appointed a consultancy firm to prepare a detailed project report for the proposed plant at Pattipulam along the East Coast Road. The plant will have the capacity to treat 200 mil ...

Places throughout the world are facing a looming water crisis, including the hot, dry Middle East. Seawater desalination is considered one of the best ways to meet the needs of the region’s growing population, but the process can be energy intensive. Some new technologies have aimed at making it more efficient, but Masdar, the clean tech organization that has been planning and building the green city of the ...

It is known for having the fastest growing population of any state in the country, and its capital is already being heralded as the major Australian urban centre of the future but Western Australia faces on enormous infrastructure problem. The state and in particular its capital Perth has been experiencing hot weather and ever-diminishing rainfall, drying up the state's system of dams and prompting water re ...

The $450 million expansion of the southern seawater desalination plant was opened last week with the first intake of seawater. Premier Colin Barnett and Water Minister Bill Marmion were on site in Binningup to activate the flow of seawater into the facility for treatment and delivery as drinking water. Mr Barnett dubbed the occasion as another step towards “drought-proofing Perth.” “When the expanded plant ...

Singapore desalination provider Hyflux Ltd announced on 11 January 2013 that it was starting financing discussions for the SGD 1.05 billion (US$ 855 million) Tuaspring Desalination Plant in Singapore. It will be supplying desalinated water to PUB, Singapore's national water agency, over a 25-year period under the terms of the water purchase agreement that was signed with PUB in April 2011. Hyflux says that ...

Power plant and highway construction specialist Mudajaya Group Bhd will start developing phase one of its US$750 million (RM2.3 billion) coal-fired power plant project in Myanmar in the second half of next year. It is understood that the special purpose vehicle (SPV) set up by Mudajaya and IJM Corp Bhd co-founder Datuk Koon Yew Yin will build the plant over several phases. Phase one will supply up to 500 me ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has awarded a contract to Siemens Government Technologies, Inc., to construct and operate the federal government’s largest wind farm. The Pantex wind farm, a first in the NNSA enterprise, will consist of five 2.3 MW turbines located on 1,500 acres of government-owned property east of the Pantex Plant. Energy savings from the wind farm average $2.9 million ...

Mitsubishi announced it is backing offshore wind projects in Germany, with an investment of €576 million (£481.2m).The Japanese firm is helping Netherlends-based grid operator TenneT connect wind farms to the power grid. TenneT said Mitsubishi will pay €240 million (£200.5m) for a 49% stake in the BorWin1 and BorWin2 grid connection projects and €336 million (£280.7m) for a 49% stake in HelWin2 and DolWin2. ...

Japan is planning to install the world’s largest offshore wind farm. The wind farm will consist of 143 wind turbines located off Fukushima’s coast. Scheduled to be completed by 2020, it would generate 1 GW of energy. This is part of a project to make Fukushima totally renewable-energy-dependent by 2040; emphasized by further plans to build the largest solar power field in the country. The wind farm would be ...

The southern states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are seeking to increase the contribution of renewable energy to meet their power requirements in the 12th Plan period (2012-17). They plan to set up wind farms on wastelands and form a green energy corridor for increasing transmission of renewable power.The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) is working with these states to prepare a ma ...