Staff Reporter

Most companies in the process industries are working hard to reduce their energy consumption and the resulting emissions. But the benefits achieved through standalone, one-off projects can be lost over time.

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission raised power tariff by 6.6 percent for bulk consumers in the country.

Singapore and the Panasonic Corportation will test-bed the first total energy solutions for public housin.

Nepal decided to scrap the licence of West Seti Hydropower Limited to construct a 750-MW power project.

GVK Power may finalise a deal to buy coal mines operated by Australia’s Hancock Prospecting in two months, GVK Group Chairman GVK Reddy said.

Infrastructure India Plc. is acquiring Indian Energy Plc. in an all-stock deal valued at £7.9 million or US $13 million.

The website carries here, a status update on the associated transmission system (ATS) of NHPC's 45 MW Nimoo Bazgo hydro-electric project (HEP), works for which are likely to slip into the 12th plan period. Work on the ATS has commenced, with the transmission lines and substation works having been awarded in two separate contracts (supply and erection & commissioning), which encompass works for 66 kV lines, 66 kV /11kV substations, 11kV lines, LT lines and BPL connections. As per the present status, an approval for the revised cost estimates (RCE) from Rural Electrification Corporation (REC)/Ministry of Power (MoP), which had been submitted to REC in October last year, is currently awaited. Any further delay in the approval of the RCE is likely to now push the completion of the lines and substations to the next fiscal period, since the working period is maximum from April-October.   --It is pertinent to note that a revised RCE had been prepared where the estimates are over 20%, to take into account the substantial increase in the Bill of Quantities particularly for the erection contract. Most of the works will be taken up subsequent to the approval of the RCE and amendment to the contract. The 45 MW project is a run-of-river scheme, planned to harness the hydropower potential of the Indus river, in the Leh district of the state. The project envisages the construction of a 57 m high concrete gravity dam, three 6.3 m long penstocks, with a diameter of 3.3 m, each, and a surface power house with four Francis turbine units of 15 MW capacity, each. The project would afford an annual energy generation of 239 million units (MU), assuming 90% performance.  

Turkey resumed discussing a potential with Toshiba and TEPCO to build the country's second nuclear plant in Sinop.

A natural gas-fired thermal plant will be built in Tokyo by the city government.

Chinese wind turbine manufacturers have experienced explosive growth in recent years. Sinovel, which installed its first wind turbine in 2006, was ranked as the world’s second largest wind turbine manufacturer in 2010 – ahead of companies like GE, Gamesa, and Siemens. In 2010, four of the top ten original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) were Chinese.

Australia is a major energy exporter. Are we going to continue to increase our contribution to Asia’s energy mix? Will it be clean energy? And is it possible that our best renewable energy resources will also be exported rather than supplying our own towns and cities?

Most companies in the process industries are working hard to reduce their energy consumption and the resulting emissions. But the benefits achieved through standalone, one-off projects can be lost over time.

A Mongolian and a Chinese mining company have signed a coal deal worth US$ 250 million.

China's nuclear power developers are turning to equity investors for funding as interest rate hikes.

The CEA sent a team to review the progress at the 110 MW Guruji combined cycle power project at Dadri in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The World Bank will lend $300 million to Indonesia to finance the development of two geothermal projects.