Power Utility

Sharp to mass produce new solar cell

At an annual production capacity of 200 MW within fiscal year 2010, Sharp Corporation will begin mass producing its new single crystalline solar cell...

Meili Paper to build 3MW solar station

Meili Paper will build a 3MW solar power station costing US$12.6 million. According to China Business News, the plant will generate annual power of 4...

Areva to work on 2 Indian nuclear projects

India will receive a credit line of around US$9.2 billion to fund supply of two EPR reactors and uranium. This will come from a consortium of French...

Adani's supercritical thermal unit goes on stream soon

India is set to roll over to supercritical coal-based power generation mode this month.

Bharat Forge to invest $421M in NTPC JV

Bharat Forge will invest US$421 million in its joint venture with NTPC. The plans are expected to be finalised by March-April. The company has...

Yingli secures over 1,000 MW solar module contracts

Yingli Green Energy has entered into aggregately over 1,000 MW of PV module contracts for 2011 delivery. With this the company exceeded its sales...

Sunergy, Pythagoras to advance development of solar windows

China Sun Energy and Pythagoras Solar willco-market and advance the development and scale manufacturing of BIPV products from 2010-2015 in China.

China is world's most capable wind power producer

China expects between 15 million and 17 million kilowatts of newly-added installed wind power capacity in 2010.

Rented gas turbines to ease Bangladesh’s energy woes

GE will supply Bagngladesh with four gas turbine rental units that will begin generating commercial power in the first quarter of 2011.

Measurement solutions for safety, efficiency and environmental compliance in coal burning power plants

Richard Gagg, Derek Stuart and Randy Hauer of AMETEK Process & Analytical Instruments review the latest technologies available for monitoring various...

Philippine plant to produce 4MW from methane

Bacavalley Energy Inc., inaugurated the first landfill gas power plant in the Philippines to feature GE’s Jenbacher gas engines.

India now world's sixth in nuclear reactors

India is now sixth in the world in terms of number of power reactors after its unit-4 of Kaiga Generating Station achdeived criticality.  Criticalit...