Staff Reporter

ABB has opened a facility for manufacturing power products in Vietnam, as the country builds and strengthens its electricity network. Vietnam is experiencing rising demands created by a growing economy.

Mengdong Energy Group got the right to develop up to 2000MW wind farms in the Chifeng Alukerqin region.

ABB sealed $22 million worth of deals to provide four turnkey substations for the regional grid in northern India.

AboitizPower assumed ownership of PB 117, a 100-MW power barge at Nasipit, Agusan del Norte, Mindanao.

A mega-solar power facility in Iida City, Nagano Prefecture will be constructed by Chubu Electric. This is made possible through the cooperation of Iida City Mayor Mitsuo Makino.

Units 1 and 2 of Heimifeng Pumped Storage Power Plant passed the synchronisation safety assessment of the NERC. The plant met the 21 requirements according to the document issued by the Changsha Electricity Regulatory Bureau of National Electricity Regulatory Commission.

Chubu Electric is pushing ahead with development of the Omaezaki Wind Power Station in Omaezaki City, Shizuoka Prefecture. It is the company's first commercial wind power facility. Positioning responses to global environmental issues is one of the company’s most important corporate agendas.

CEM will collect experimental data and conduct feasibility study about solar energy in Coloane CCB Power Plant. It will be done through a pilot project of Grid-connected Photovoltaic System installation.

Bank of China has approved China Hydroelectric Corporation's subsidiary, Fujian Huabang Hydroelectricity Investment Co., as a borrower of up to an aggregate of $440million.

Wujing co-generation modification project's Unit 8 passed 168-hour test running simultaneous with the desulphurisation and de-Nox systems. That marked the official commercial operation of the first 300MW unit of Wujing co-generation modification project.

The three ring circus that was COP-15 has long since packed up leaving behind recriminations and all sorts of “I told you so’s”.

Consequently, the country’s grid companies will need to improve their power transmission technologies.

Unit 2 of Xinchang Power Plant passed the 168-hour test running indicating that it was fully commissioned. The 2×660MW USC coal-fired generation units in Phase I of Xinchang Power Plant is the first "replace small units with big ones" power construction project in Jiangxi Province.

AREVA has been awarded two contracts worth US$54.3 million for Extra High Voltage turnkey projects in India.

China Power Investment’s CO2 capture facility in Hechuan, Chongqing, was officially commissioned.

China Energy Recovery's new Shanghai production facility will get a $5 million funding for development and construction.