(EnergyAsia, August 7, Tuesday) — Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, a leading vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) product manufacturer in China, said it has completed the first stage of its Phase III 500MW manufacturing expansion plan. The newly finished production lines add 100MW of total production capacity of polysilicon wafers, PV cells and PV modules,...
(EnergyAsia, August 7, Tuesday) — Singapore-based Oculus Ltd, a contact lens manufacturer, has signed non-binding MOUs to buy another four hydropower plants in China to add to the eight that it is acquiring. The company, which is diversifying into the energy business, will pay 1.05 billion yuan for the four plants which have a combined...
(EnergyAsia, August 7, Tuesday) — Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) said it has received a full-turnkey order from PT PLN, Indonesia’s state-owned electricity company, for a repowering project to convert an aged oil-fired power plant to a natural gas-fired gas turbine combined-cycle (GTCC) plant. The power generation units No 1 to 3 of 100...
(EnergyAsia, August 7, Tuesday) — US-based GeoPetro Resources Company said its 12%-owned subsidiary Continental-GeoPetro (Bengara-II) Ltd (CGB2) has called for tenders for a third drilling rig to provide turnkey, integrated drilling services to drill wells on the Bengara-II PSC, onshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia. CGB2 expects to award the drilling contract around the end of August....
(EnergyAsia, August 7, Tuesday) — China and Turkmenistan have signed an agreement to cooperate on natural gas development in the latter’s Amudariya River area. Last month, China National Petroleum Corporation and Turkmenistan’s The State Agency For Management And Use Of Hydrocarbon Resources signed a gas production sharing contract. Separately, CNPC signed with Turkmengas a gas...
(EnergyAsia, August 7, Tuesday) — Nearly 700 companies from 38 countries will showcase their controls and instrumentation technology and services for the oil refining, petrochemical, chemical and pharmaceutical industries in Singapore on November 29 to December 2. Some of the companies will exhibit at the ControlsAsia & InstrumentAsia (CIA) 2007 under country pavilions representing China,...
(EnergyAsia, August 6, Monday) — Germany’s Oiltanking GmbH said it has signed an agreement under which 3i Infrastructure Limited will acquire 45% of the shares of its terminal facilities in Amsterdam, Malta and Singapore. 3i Infrastructure is a Jersey-incorporated investment company, admitted to the London Stock Exchange in March 2007, which invests in and provides...
(EnergyAsia, August 6, Monday) — A growing electricity shortage in northwestern Cambodia, including around the tourism hub of Siem Reap, is being fixed with the help of an $8 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to build power lines that will import electricity from neighbouring Thailand. The development will be a boost for...
(EnergyAsia, August 6, Monday) — Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, said it has secured four contracts worth a total of S$350 million to build six offshore support vessels (OSV) and a derrick pipelay vessel. (US$1=S$1.52). The vessels are to be delivered between the second half of...
(EnergyAsia, August 6, Monday) — Commercial demand for fuel cell products and services — including revenues associated with prototyping, demonstration and test marketing activities — will expand nearly sixfold to $2.5 billion in 2011 and reach $8.5 billion in 2016. According to the Freedonia Group Inc, a Cleveland-based industry market research firm, a number of...
(EnergyAsia, August 6, Monday) — The Indonesian government is planning to install solar power generators to provide electricity for 33,000 households living in remote areas, said the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry. With oil and gas prices on the rise, the country is experiencing increasing incidences of power supply breakdown. Most Indonesian villages do not...
(EnergyAsia, August 6, Monday) — Indian Railways has signed an agreement to transport coal for Nagarajuna Power Corporation Limited (NPCL) which is setting up a 1,015 MW thermal power plant near Padubidri near Udipi in Karnataka state. The agreement is for 25 years. Konkan Railway, a member of Indian Railways, has agreed to transport 2.8...
(EnergyAsia, August 6, Monday) — Australia’s Arrow Energy said it has signed two agreements with leading coal miners in the extensive Binchang coalfield of Shaanxi Province in northern China. The two agreements are the culmination of many months of geological review work and discussions with the mining groups and state agencies. The first agreement with...
(EnergyAsia, August 6, Monday) — IT giant HP has announced that it plans to allocate more than US$2 million in cash and equipment to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to establish three projects aimed at addressing the causes and consequences of climate change on a global basis. The projects, which focus on analysis, research and...
(EnergyAsia, August 6, Monday) — MWH, a global provider of environmental engineering, construction and strategic consulting services, announced today that it has been selected by Ertan Hydropower Development Company Ltd (EHDC) to provide engineering and construction management consulting services for the Jinping I Hydropower project in China. Located on the Yalong River in the Sichuan...
(EnergyAsia, August 6, Monday) — Central Victoria has been chosen as Australia’s fifth Solar city, according to a joint announcement by two Cabinet ministers, Treasurer Peter Costello and Environment and Water Resources Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The Central Victorian Solar City consortium will receive up to A$15 million in Australian government funding to help change the...
(EnergyAsia, August 3, Friday) — Nasdaq-listed Distributed Energy Systems Corp said it is installing two 100 kilowatt (kW) wind power systems on the Malaysian resort island of Pulau Perhentian. The company, which creates and delivers products and solutions to the emerging decentralised energy marketplace, said the project consists of installing and commissioning two NorthWind® 100...
(EnergyAsia, August 3, Friday) — China’s State Forestry Administration last month launched the China Green Carbon Foundation in Beijing. The foundation aims to reduce China’s greenhouse emissions, encourage carbon credit trading and the development of forest-based biofuels. As a founding member and the only one representing the forestry sector, Torontol-isted Sino-Forest said it is looking...
(EnergyAsia, August 3, Friday) — Two ministries of the South Korean government have jointly launched the country’s first carbon fund. The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy and the Ministry of Planning and Budget are investing 20 billion won (US$1=930 wion) to create the 200 billion won carbon fund as part of a push to...
(EnergyAsia, August 3, Friday) — The Thai government recently awarded contracts for the construction of six small hydro power plants with a combined capacity of 79 megawatts. The plants, to start up between 2009 and 2010, will be built the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT). EGAT recently tied up with the Royal Irrigation Department...
(EnergyAsia, August 3, Friday) — Alarmed by the rising cost of oil and gas, the Indian government plans to generate more than 80,000 megawatts (MW) of power from renewable energy sources such as wind, small hydro and biomass by 2032. This will raise the proportion of renewable energy in the power generation sector to 5%...
(EnergyAsia, August 3, Friday) — Australia’s upstream company Oilsearch may revive the proposal for a shelved natural gas pipeline project linking Papua New Guinea to Queensland. Managing director Peter Botten said the line was still viable in the long run, subject to demand and pricing. The project was dropped earlier this year as its early...
(EnergyAsia, August 3, Friday) — Singapore-listed KS Energy Services Limited said Sovereign Assets SA has been given the greenlight by the Singapore Exchange to buy up to 13.5 million new shares in the company. KS Energy had announced Sovereign’s intention in a statement on June 7. It added that Singapore Exchange’s approval for the listing...
(EnergyAsia, August 2, Friday) — Indian Railways is expanding the capacity of its biodiesel plant in Perambur near Chennai to 1,000 litres per day. The company is using its own technology to extract biodiesel from the seeds of oil-bearing crops like the jatropha, neem and pungam as well as waste vegetable oil. Railway officials said...
(EnergyAsia, August 3, Friday) — Energy representatives from across North America and China are in Beijing to discuss energy and trade matters with Chinese experts at the Energy Council’s China North American Energy Dialogue meeting from July 27 to August 3. Canada’s Alberta province is represented by Frank Oberle, the MLA for Peace River, is...