Metso Oyi, a Finnish engineering company, plans to expand its biomass business in China and India as growing urban populations drive up energy demand, while European governments cut back support for clean power. The growth of Asian cities adds to waste as well as energy consumption, offering opportunities to use that waste as biomass, Martin Ridderheim, vice president of Helsinki-based Metso’s power busines ...

Phinma-led Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. is expanding its power generation portfolio in northern Mindanao, where it plans to build a P13-billion, 135-megawatt coal-fired power plant to address the growing demand on the island. According to Trans-Asia president Francisco Viray, the project was still in the early stages with the company still under the pre-engineering component. The company also ...

Given the government’s grand plan to build up power plants at mega capacity of 20,000 megawatt (MW) in two phases until 2018, Indonesian energy providers are keen to see it as lucrative business as they already had captive market and resources to fuel their business. Embracing private power provider firms, the Indonesian government has set ambitious plans to build new power plants in two phases, with 10,000 ...

NTPC will invest nearly Rs 12,000 crore for setting up 1,600 MW first stage of the Lara thermal project in Chhattisgarh. NTPC's announcement today comes a day after the company increased its generation capacity to 39,674 MW. The board of directors of NTPC, during a recent meeting, approved an investment of Rs 11,846 crore for the first stage (1,600 MW) of the Lara Super Thermal Power Project in Chhattisgarh ...

Nearly 46,400 MW of indigenous coal-based power plants are running with just up to three days of fuel stock. This may lead to a risk of complete shut down of power stations and blackout if there is a disruption of coal supply even for a day. According to the Central Electricity Authority, as on November 7 almost 35 power plants are at super critical stage. An electricity generating station is considered sup ...

Laos will start building a dam on the Mekong River this week, a step that neighboring Cambodia and Vietnam fear could imperil fish and cripple rice fields. The Xayaburi dam is expected to reap profits for Laos by generating hydropower to sell to Thailand. The $3-billion-plus project would be the first major dam on the lower part of the Mekong, a massive waterway that provides food and jobs to millions of pe ...

The Jammu and Kashmir government is implementing three mega power projects to harness 2,220 MW of hydro-electricity which will cost an estimated Rs 17,290 crores in the first phase. Chenab Valley Power Projects Ltd will be initially be involved in development of 2,220 MW of hydro-electricity from three power projects: Pakuldul, Kiru and Kawar in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). This was revealed at a high level ...

Alstom has successfully delivered the first generating unit at the Xiangjiaba hydropower plant in China. The 800MW Francis turbine and 889MVA generator unit passed a reliability trial run of 72 hours and recently began commercial operation. Each generating unit has a maximum output equivalent to a small nuclear power plant and is claimed to be the most powerful ever built. When completed the station, which ...

Construction on a desalination plant began yesterday for south China's city of Sansha, as part of a larger project that will also include a rainwater purification system. The project, which will be capable of processing 1,000 cubic meters of seawater daily, will supply residents on Yongxing Island, where the municipal government is seated, said a spokesman from the local economic planning body. The desalina ...

Sumitomo of Japan has won an order from the state-owned Oman Power and Water Procurement Co. to build a desalination plant in Oman with Malakoff Corp. Berhad of Malaysia and Cadagua SA of Spain. The plant, scheduled to start operations in September 2014, will supply water for daily use equivalent to the amount consumed by about 800,000 people, the Japanese trading company said in a statement today. The proj ...