PLN is seeking interested bidders for funding the construction of a $200 million gas-fired power plant in Arun, Aceh. “The winner will be announced by early next year, so that the construction can start,” said PLN’s director for planning and risk management, Murtaqi Syamsuddin. The winner will provide the funding for the engineering, procurement and construction of the 200MW power plant project. PLN will su ...

Jhajjar Power Ltd., a unit of CLP Power India Ltd., is seeking 600,000 metric tons of steam coal for its 1,320 MW unit in northern India. The arm of Hong Kong-based CLP Holdings Ltd. seeks delivery of the fuel at its plant in Haryana for the year ending March 2013, according to the company’s tender notice. The company seeks coal with a gross calorific value of as much as 6,500 kilocalories a kilogram, total ...

Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang had approved the supplementary protocol and necessary documents to join the IAEA’s Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, leading the country closer to the development of their first nuclear power station. This was announced by Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Quan at the 56th annual session of the International Atomic Energy Agency general assembly ...

The State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China has issued a Notification on Grant of Patent Right to Aquaporin A/S's patent application titled Membrane For Filtering Of Water, the company announced on 11 September 2012. This is Aquaporin's first Chinese patent application which has proceeded to grant in preparation for the Danish company's entry on the huge Chinese market. A number ...

Between now and 2030, China will be adding as much new power capacity as the US, UK, and Australia combined use today, according to calculations from HSBC. That is a staggering amount. But there is a catch: Generating electricity requires water, and Chinese supplies are increasingly running short. Whether it is water used to cool nuclear power stations, in coal-washing, steam turbines, or solar panel factor ...

A 200 m³/d desalination facility has been donated to An Binh Island in Vietnam by Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co Ltd of South Korea. A ceremony on 31 August 2012 on the island in Ly Son prefecture was attended by 300 people including several Vietnamese central government officials. The Doosan facility includes two seawater reverse-osmosis units, two generators, which will provide the island w ...

India’s biggest builder of water-treatment plants, VA Tech Wabag Ltd. (VATW),expects sales to beat forecasts by rising as much as 20% annually as growing cities are overwhelmed by sewage drive government contracts. The Chennai-based company, a former unit of Siemens AG, has surged 36% this year on orders to construct water- cleaning plants for French cities, a solar polysilicon factory in Qatar and a petroc ...

Aquatech has been awarded a third contract extension to provide operating services for a boiler feed water treatment plant at Reliance Industries Limited's PTA (purified terephthalic acid) manufacturing unit in Hazira, Gujarat, India. The company will help to provide enhanced water production from the demineralization plant, which includes patented High Efficiency Reverse Osmosis (HERO™) technology, produci ...

China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Ltd. signed an agreement with China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corp. to develop offshore wind as the nation’s third- largest turbine maker seeks to boost installations at home before growing oversees. Ming Yang and Shenzhen-based Guangdong Nuclear are going to work together on the Golden Bay offshore wind project in Jieyang, Guangdong province, and develop wind on land ...

Alstom, a global leader in energy and transport infrastructure have recently introduced its Agile digital substation technology as part of the “smart grid” technology products, to enhance energy transmission and distribution networks through digital control and monitoring. Grégoire Poux-Guillaume, executive vice president of Alstom, said his firm, which has operated in Indonesia since 1996, would use the te ...