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SECL cancels LoA for Aditya Birla's power plant

SECL cancels LoA for Aditya Birla's power plant

SECL has served a notice to Aditya Birla's Birla Cellulosic unit for the cancellation of the letter of assurance and encashment of commitment guarantee for the latter's 25 MW captive power plant at Kharach, Gujarat.

India, Pakistan await IAC decision on Kishanganga

The International Court of Arbitration is reviewing the additional required information over controversial Kishanganga Hydro Power Project, which both Pakistan and India submitted recently.

Three Gorges Dam targets full-capacity run by October's end

The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water control and hydropower project, started collecting water early Saturday in an effort to reach full-capacity by the end of October, said an official with the project.

Mitsui, Toshiba to build Japan's largest PV plant

Mitsui and Toshiba are jteaming up to build Japan’s largest PV system.

Kansai Electric's 10MW solar system in Osaka starts operations

Kansai Electric Power has started commercial operation of its 10MW PV plant in Sakai City, Osaka.

Realforce Power completes 2.5MW rooftop system in China

Realforce Power has completed work on a 2.5MW PV array on the roof of a technology institute in Shandong province.

Shanghai Electric to supply 100 MW offshore wind farm

The winning bid involves supplying 26 wind turbines of 3.6 MW  each, according to a Bloomberg report.

China and Kazakhstan to expand gas pipeline network in Central Asia

The capacity of Pipeline “C” will rise to 25 billion cubic meters a year by December 2015.

Two power plants to be set up at Bangladesh

Peoples and Venture Energy Resources and Union Consultant and Venture Energy Resources are foreunners to get two power plant projects of 52.50 MW each at Munshiganj and Comilla.

Powergrid defers construction of bays for 2 projects

The Talcher-II and North Karanpura transmission projects habe been deferred due to the ambiguity in the commissioning schedules.

Haryana Power gets environmental clearance for gas-fired plant

Haryana Power has received environmental clearance for the construction of a 1,500MW gas-based power project in Haryana, India.

Chinese power plant contractors take half of Indian market share

China's SEPCO III took more than 20 percent of Indian power plant building market, aid Lu Yanxia, director of SEPCO III’s Mumbai Office. All Chinese power plant contractors occupy less than 50 percent of market share in India.

Chinese firm heeds protests to stop Cambodian hydro projects

Two Chinese state-owned companies held back from their investment projects in Cambodia under public pressure.

Kerala, Orissa leave plant construction for allocated coal to NTPC

Kerala has asked NTPC to develop a 1000 MW power project as a expansion of the central power developer`s Ramagundam power plant utilizing the coal blocks allocated the state in Baitarani, Orissa.

TELK in talks with Ukrainian and Chinese companies to upgrade technology

Transformers and Electricals Kerala Ltdis now in talks with a Chinese and a Ukrainian company for a technical partner so as to be able to upgrade the existing technology to 765 Kv level.

NTPC's naphta-fired Kayamkulam power plant in danger of closure

 NTPC`s naphtha fired Kayamkulam power plant may be removed after Tamil Nadu and Kerala refused to draw power from it due to the sharp price increase of its power.

Pakistan's Thar coal gasification project to undergo test burn

The underground coal gasification project in Tharparkar will undergo its first test burn on September 19 in the presence of four experts from Uzbekistan.