Manila Water Company, Inc. (MWCI) has entrusted Black & Veatch to train its professionals and water industry partners in the finer points of biological nutrient removal (BNR) in wastewater treatment. Dr. James Barnard, a Global Practice and Technology Leader for Black & Veatch’s water business, and Dr. Andrew Shaw, Associate Vice President at Black & Veatch, led the knowledge transfer session. D ...

Energy demand in Asia will continue to climb in the coming decades, which will have critical economic, climate, and geostrategic implications for the United States. Over the next 20 years, India and Southeast Asia are expected to record the world’s highest carbon dioxide growth rates. For this reason, tackling energy-related emissions in this region must be a part of any meaningful global strategy to c ...

A new partnership has been formed to integrate smart metering and analytics to address the energy industry’s next generation use cases in the Asia Pacific. Artificial intelligence-enabled energy analytics firm Grid4C is combining its solutions with Landis+Gyr’s smart meters to deliver predictive insights at the grid edge with real-time decisions. The integration removes the need to incorporate a meter data ...

Mita-Teknik’s new CEO Klaus Knudsen has announced today his new strategic vision for the company. This year, Mita-Teknik, a company thatpioneered wind technology since the early eighties, celebrates its 50th anniversary. With Knudsen in the top job, the Danish turbine control solution specialist is gearing up to embrace the challenges of the coming decade. Strategically, the company will ...

Research firm Technavio forecast the global market for smart grid communications will record a 12% growth between 2019 and 2023. Revenue generation is expected to reach $1.67 billion by 2023 whilst year on year rate growth for 2019 is estimated at 10.67%. An increase in the adoption of smart meters is expected to be the key market driver. Utilities' first step towards the deployment of smart grids is the ro ...

South Asian grid connectivity is an idea whose time has come. Fortunately, the government announced its revised policy for power trade with neighbouring countries in December last year. The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) announced last month the regulations to implement the policy. This opens the door for market based transactions with neighbours. This is nothing new for Europe but a major ...

Ørsted has taken the final investment decision (FID) on the Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Prior to the FID, Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs approved Ørsted’s local supply chain plan, and subsequently Ørsted has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Taipower at the feed-in-tariff level announced on 30 January 2019. “Over the last couple of months, we have been working intensive ...

ITOCHU Corporation (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; announced today that it will cooperate with solar power generation solution companies to install solar photovoltaic (PV) generation facilities on the roofs of its customers’ distribution and retail stores, factories and other facilities without any initial payment in Japan and overseas to supply solar electricity to customers in the long term through it ...

NINH THUAN, Vietnam— The Ayala group’s AC Energy is finalizing deals for wind power projects that need to be up and running in two and a half years, following its rush to build solar power plants here. AC Energy president Eric Francia said in an interview that while talks with Vietnamese partners are still ongoing, the parties involved realize that any wind project needs to be operating by November 2021 to ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to finance Jawa-1 power plant in Indonesia. Credit: Asian Development Bank. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to finance Indonesia’s largest combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant, Jawa-1. Located in Cilamaya, Karawang, West Java, the project uses liquefied natural gas (LNG) and comprises a 1,760MW CCGT power plant and ancillary infrastructure. Th ...