LAOS has agreed to sell 100 megawatts (MW) of electricity to Malaysia via Thailand's power grid in a trade deal signed this week by the involved parties, a senior Lao official has said. The energy purchase and wheeling agreement (EPWA), the first multilateral energy exchange or trade in Asean, was signed during the Asean Ministers on Energy Meeting (AMEM) in the Philippines. Under the two-year agreement, La ...

ROLLS-ROYCE STRENGTHENS PARTNERSHIP WITH TOMINAGA IN JAPAN Tominaga & Co., Ltd. is the new MTU distributor in Japan for the marine, rail, C&I and oil & gas segments Three workshops and test stands ensure the aftersales support FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, GERMANY – Rolls-Royce Power Systems and Japanese company Tominaga & Co., Ltd. are to work closely in the future on serving the marine, O&G, rail a ...

Japanese gas turbine producer Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) expects stronger demand in Southeast Asia for high efficiency coal and gas turbines due to low input prices for the fuels making such investment more attractive. Although the company has been struggling to meet annual sales goals since the merger in 2014 of the power units of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Hitachi Ltd, the partnershi ...

Asia offers the best business opportunities for the globally-declining gas turbine market, according to a new report. A study from analysts at GlobalData states that the worldwide gas turbine market is set to fall from last year's $8.49 billion to around $7.73 billion by 2021. The report states that global economic recession and the decrease in the price of gas turbines has heavily impacted market value, wi ...

Asia Pacific — home to more than half the world's population and some of its fastest-growing economies — is a key battleground in the fight against pollution, one of the biggest threats to the planet and its people, the UN environment chief said. An estimated 12 million people die prematurely each year because of unhealthy environments, 7 million of them due to air pollution alone, making pollution "the big ...

Southeast Asian countries are adopting cutting-edge information technology to improve the efficiency and environmental impact of fossil fuel power plants that the region relies on to meet surging energy demand. Japanese trader Marubeni and Global Power Synergy Co., an affiliate of Thailand's national oil company PTT, have reached a basic agreement to install sensors at existing power plants that will allow ...

  L3 MAPPS to Assist ABB With Simulator Update for Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Plant   MONTREAL, August 21, 2017 – L3 MAPPS announced today that under a contract with Swiss industrial technology company ABB it will update the simulator it provided in 2006 for DTE Energy’s Fermi 2 nuclear power plant based in Newport, Michigan. The work calls for modification of the 120-kilovolt switchyard portion of the ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) issued a paper on August 8, titled "The Internet of Things in the Power Sector: Opportunities in Asia and the Pacific", as part of its Sustainable Development Working Paper Series. The paper looks at the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) to transform the power sector through operational optimisation, asset performance management, and engaging customers to lower energ ...

Utilities are increasingly demanding that the life of battery-based energy storage systems (BESS) be extended to 10 years so they can obtain sizeable returns on their investment. Battery manufacturers currently offer five years and are making concerted efforts to enhance the durability of BESS as well as provide value-added services such as warranty and operations and maintenance contracts. In addition to h ...

The operating stability of the MWM CHPs improved significantly Per year and plant, some 10,000 t of energy crops are used in the Biogas Park Altmark (Germany). These are supplied by farms from the region. The use of renewable energy sources reduces carbon dioxide emissions, as the use of biogas only releases as much CO2 as the plants absorbed during their growth. The Biogas Park Altmark was a flagship energ ...