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Construction on Song Bac River hydro plant starts

Construction on Song Bac River hydro plant starts

The construction of a dam across the Song Bac River for a hydropower plant in northern Ha Giang province is now underway.

License granted to construction of An Khanh 2 thermal plant

The construction license has been granted to the An Khanh Thermal Power Joint Stock Company by the Thai Nguyen Provincial People’s Committee for the...

Toshiba joins consortium for solar-wind project in Japan

Toshiba is participating in a seven-company consortium headced by Mitsui in plans to construct and operate a solar photovoltaic plant in Japan...

Serbia, China sign deal for coal plant, mine

Elektroprivreda Srbije of Serbia has agreed to jointly build a 744 megawatt coal-fired unit at an estimated cost of more than 2 billion euros or $2.7...

Sale of MWM to Caterpillar approved by the European Commission

The transaction is then expected to be finished before the year ends.

Vietnam borrows $1B for Mekong wind power development

Vietnam Development Bank has been approved Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh to sign a credit commitment letter to borrow $1 billion for wind power...

Kudankulam nuclear plant expansion deferred

The NPCIL is having a hard time obtaining a final clearance for units three to six of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Projectwith the Union Ministry of...

Investment board approves cost estimate for THDC's 1000 MW PSP

The Public Investment Board have accorded its investment approval forTHDC's 1000 MW Tehri pumped storage plant at an estimated cost of Rs 2978.86...

TEPCO's 500MW gas-fired unit starts operations in 2012

Tokyo Electric Power will commence operations of a new 500MW combined-cycle, gas-fired unit at its Kawasaki plant in Japan by next year.

Lai Chau hydro-electric power plant to be built at VND 6,000B

A loan of VND6,000 billion will be allocated for the construction of a hydro-electric power plant in the northern mountain province of Lai Chau.

Vestas ships first 14 V112-3.0 MW wind turbines to Australia

The 420MW Macarthur Wind Farm is Vestas’ first major order for the new V112-3.0MW wind turbine.

Wind energy to eclipse aerospace as top user of advanced composites by 2020

The demand for advanced structural materials by wind turbine makers will surge five-fold from $2.5b in 2011 to $15.4b in 2020.

Deals in the energy sector slump 35% to 86 in Q3 2011

The deals only amounted to $66.057b compared to $152.13 last year.

China takes on Western wind turbine suppliers

China's windmill makers face competition head on with at least $15.5 billion in state-backed credit.

BPI to build $4B Indonesian coal-fired plant

PT Bhimasena Power Indonesia will build a 2,000MW coal-fired power plant in Central Java at an estimated cost of US$4 billion.

Indian wind farm assmbled by Spanish group

Acciona has completed the construction of the 56.1MW Tuppadahalli wind farm in Karnataka, India.

Star Hydro gets ADB financing for Pakistan hydro project

Star Hydro Power has secured a $97m loan from the Asian Development Bank to finance the construction of a 144MW hydro power plant in Muzaffarabad...