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GE to provide metering technology to Meralco

General Electric Company will provide advanced metering infrastructure integrated solution for Meralco's prepaid metering service to customers.

GE to provide metering technology to Meralco

General Electric Company will provide advanced metering infrastructure integrated solution for Meralco's prepaid metering service to customers.

Bangladesh shuts gas-based power plants

Production at all the three gas-fired state-owned power plants in Chittagong City has remained suspended due to an acute gas crisis.

Philippines' Trans-Asia's power plant to resume operations

Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp.will resume commercial operations of its 21-megawatt bunker fuel-fired power plant at its new location in La Union.

Bangladesh to introduce remote metering

The Bangladesh Power Development Board will soon be able to monitor, reading, measurement and billing of the High Tension consumers’ meters from a central station. 

India's BHEL to purchase power through exchanges

BHEL is seeking to purchase competitively priced electricity through open access via power exchanges.

NLC invites bids for steam generator & auxiliaries package for 1,000 MW Neyveli New TPP

Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) has invited bids for the "Steam Generator & Auxiliaries Package (NTA1)" for

West Bengal discom plans 80 MW Teesta hydel project

West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (WBSEDCL) intends to develop the 80 MW Teesta Low

Aditya Birla to invest in solar power business

The Aditya Birla group plans will address the demand for clean energy through Rs 6,000 crore investments in solar power business over the next five years.

CEA dismisses Bordoloi's demand for complete allocation of power from Bongaigaon TPP

India's apex power sector planning body - CEA - has turned down Assam Power Minister Pradyut Bordoloi`s

SMA Solar to provide inverters for Japan’s largest solar plant

SMA Solar Technology will supply inverters to Kagoshima Mega Solar Power’s 70MW solar plant, which is set to be completed by next fall.

Neo Solar Power revenue goes down

Taiwan’s solar cell maker Neo Solar Power Corp. last October 5 posted revenue at NT$764 million for last month.The said company's revenue falls as compared with August’s NT$1.07 billion, about 29 percent lower. On an annual basis, this is a 56 percent slump from NT$1.75 billion.Last month’s revenue was at its lowest level since January’s NT$663 million.In the June to September period, revenue plummeted 28 percent to NT$2.85 billion, from NT$3.96 billion in the previous quarter.

Japan electricity demand down 0.3% in September

Japan marked the first year-on-year decline in two months after power demand fell 0.3 percent in September from a year earlier.

GCL-Poly, Foxconn team-up for Chinese solar plant

GCL-Poly and Foxconn Technology will build and operate a 310MW solar plant in China’s Shanxi province and share the revenue from selling electricity to the government utility. 

Indian experts question suitability of BOOT for power projects

Exports in India warned that the Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) model would not be suitable for setting up power plants in the country and could lead to complications.

India's Vedanta group to sell 1,000 MW surplus power

Sterlite Energy Limited (SEL) and Bharat Aluminium Co. Ltd (BALCO), are hunting for buyers of their combined power surplus of 1,000 MW.

Chinese solar plant to be built

Foxconn Technology Group and GCL-Poly Energy Holding Ltd will put up and operate a solar-power plant in China’s Shanxi Province. The said companies will share revenue from selling electricity to the government utility at the 310-megawatt plant, which will use GCL’s solar cells to be assembled by Foxconn, according to Hong Kong-listed GCL’s executive president Shu Hua who told Bloomberg News Wednesday. He declined to specify the investment amount or revenue split for the facility, which is scheduled to be fully operational during the first half of next year.

Evacuation plan formulated for Song Tranh 2 hydropower dam

Experts inspected the evacuation plan for people living in earthquake-affected areas near Song Tranh Hydropower Plant in central Quang Nam Province.