Staff Reporter

Cyan's metering technology deployed for smart grid pilot in India

Cyan's metering technology deployed for smart grid pilot in India

Cyan Technology is showcasing its smart electricity metering solutions at a pilot project in India.

Vietnam gets French loan to upgrade for power grid

Vietnam will get a 75 million Euro credit from France to upgarde its power transmission network.

British-Bangladeshis to invest in power sector

Bangladeshis in Britain have expressed interest to invest in Bangladesh’s prospective sectors especially power.

Hong Kong needs to be more energy efficient

Buildings should be more energy efficient to save power to help transform Hong Kong into a low carbon city.

Japan to beef up transmission system

Upgrade triggered by plan to triple wind power capacity.

Tohoku Electric to hike power rates by 11%

It’s their first tariff increase in 33 years.

Mitsubishi to supply turbines for Hyundai power project

Power plant will be Saudi Arabia’s first with supercritical pressure steam turbines.

India frees Bhutan from export power charges

India has acquiesced to Bhutan's demands for not imposing unscheduled interchange charges on supply of construction power.

New Zealand's first tidal power station gets approved

New Zealand's first tide-driven power station to be set up at Kaipara Harbour has been approved.

Vietnam achieves 96% electrification with renewables

Vietnam's move to turn away from coal towards renewable energy resulted in 96 percent electricification.

Coal stocks up in China

Large drop in electricity consumption leads to large coal inventories.

Bangladesh to fund 5 power projects with hard $1.5-B loan

The Bangladesh government will utilize US$1.5 billion export credit agency loans to fund five power projects.

Asian solar capacity growth pushes global total to 101GW

Solar power capacity growth in China and Japan largely helped push global capacity to 101 gigawatts in 2012.

China comes to rescue of the UK’s nuclear program

State-owned China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group could build four nuclear plants.

Japan to assist Saudi Arabia’s nuclear power program

Deal will be Japan’s first overseas project since the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Philippine JV to add 100MW of clean energy to grid

Deal will build the Philippines’ largest biomass power plant.

Alsons to build another power plant in Mindanao

The company sees Toyota as a partner in building its newest plant.