CLEAN WATER, sanitation, healthcare, transport, lighting, cooking, heating–these are energy driven elements essential to human wellbeing and a country’s economic activity and social development – yet not accessible to the world’s energy poor, the majority who are living in Asia and the Pacific. Today, more than 700 million people in the region have no access to electricity. With the threats of climate chang ...

Nexif Energy (Nexif), a leading independent power producer in Asia and Australia, announced that it has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its 110 megawatt (MW) cogeneration project in Thailand’s Rayong Province. Nexif acquired the project in June 2017 and is making rapid progress towards achieving financial close in the first quarter of 2018. “We are encouraged by the pr ...

According to Indonesia’s Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, as of December 2017, renewable energy contributed to 12.62% of total national electricity supply in Indonesia. This exceeds the 2017 state budget target of 11.96%. The renewable supply comes from both state-electricity firm PLN and a selection of private companies, according to the Jakarta Post. PLN, or Perusahaan Listrik Negara, is the Indones ...

AUSTRALIANS have thrown their support behind hi-tech, coal-fired power stations as a leading analyst warned it could be decades before batteries to store renewable power were widespread. The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) survey of 1300 people showed 68 per cent of Australians supported new-generation coal power through high efficiency, low emissions (HELE) coal-fired generation. MCA executive director ...

TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings and three other Japanese utilities plan to grant access to each other's backup power reserves to better handle dips in renewable energy output and other non-emergency situations. Tepco has agreed on an outline of the arrangement with Kansai Electric Power, Chubu Electric Power and Hokuriku Electric Power. An announcement is expected at the start of next year, with ...

CONSUNJI-LED DMCI Holdings, Inc. said that its power unit had clinched a contract to construct a 15-megawatt (MW) thermal power plant in the municipality of Mobo in Masbate. DMCI Holdings informed the local bourse on Monday that DMCI Masbate Power Corp. (DMPC), a wholly owned subsidiary of DMCI Power Corp., had entered into an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with two entities connec ...

The technology group Wärtsilä, in partnership with Australia-based Clough Ltd, a provider of engineering, construction, commissioning and asset support services, has been awarded a turnkey contract to provide a 58 MW power plant to Papua New Guinea. The plant is part of an infrastructure building programme being developed by NIUPOWER, a venture between Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited and Oil Search Power H ...

Rolls-Royce has supplied a Chinese data center with backup, emergency power supply consisting of ten 20-cylinder MTU Series 4000 engines. The data center is operated by internet service provider Sinnet and is located in the east Beijing. Sinnet has 1,220 server cabinets on an area of over 11,000 square metres, which have to be protected in the event of power failure. The emergency power supply has been purc ...

GE Power today said it has bagged an order from Jiangsu Etern Company Ltd to supply its latest gas turbine for an upcoming 100 MW plant at Shahjibazar in Bangladesh. The order, worth multi-million US dollars, includes supplying gas turbine equipment and providing related services for installation, testing and commissioning, a GE Power statement said. The project is expected to be commissioned in the second ...

Gulf Energy Development Pcl’s billionaire founder Sarath Ratanavadi plans 150 billion baht ($4.6 billion) of investment in power plants over the next four years after the company’s listing this month. The initial public offering’s proceeds will help fund some of the outlay, with the rest coming from loans, Sarath, the company’s chief executive officer, said in an interview in his Bangkok office. His net wor ...