fourth manufacturing plant in China and also made another sale of 400 wind turbine generators to the Longyuan Electric Power Group Corporation, a leading Chinese renewable energy company. With the start-up of the new Tianjin city plant, Gamesa said it is now equipped with an integrated production and assembly centre for wind turbine generators capable...

offshore industry, said it has successfully executed and completed the Mampak platform installation work for Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sdn Bhd using its heavy derrick barge, the Dalihao which has a 2,500-MT lifting capacity. The project is part of Swiber’s landmark US$146.6 million contract with Brunei Shell announced in February 2007 which includes offshore work...

approved Petronas’ purchase of a 40% of its Gladstone LNG (GLNG) project first announced on May 29. Petronas, Malaysia’s state oil and gas company, will pay US$2.008 billion to become Santos’ partner in the development, operation and marketing of the project. Petronas will pay another US$500 million when the partners proceed to build a second...

will need to think seriously about what it does with its limited oil resources, according to independent analyst Peter Strachan. “As the oil price escalates, the global free market in oil trade will dissipate as those countries with oil become more selective in how they sell,” he said. “Oil could become unavailable at any price...

General Electric, have signed a pact to establish standards for compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) in an effort to rid the Asian market of shoddy energy-saving lights. Under the new agreement, lighting suppliers in Asia will develop performance levels to rate CFL quality, a system for product marking, and a regional database so consumers can identify...

(EnergyAsia, July 18, Friday) — India’s ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) said it would grant an incentive to independent power producers to use wind for generating power and feeding it into the national grid. Owners of the wind plants would bepaid an incentive of Rs0.50 per unit of electricity generated over a 10-year...

(EnergyAsia, July 18, Friday) — Solar Private, an Indo-Norwegian joint venture, plans to build a solar grade silicon plant in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The Rs15 billion plant will have a design capacity of about 5,400 tonnes per year of silicon. (US$1=Rs43). The project would run on a newly patented Norwegian technology to...

(EnergyAsia, July 18, Friday) — The Indian government has spelt out a key role for solar energy in the country’s energy and environmental plan under its newly released and much anticipated climate change policy. The plan calls for the government and solar energy companies to work together to boost solar energy production and use in...

(EnergyAsia, July 18, Friday) — Advanced Holdings Ltd, a Singappore-based supplier of proprietary process equipment and technologies, clean energy solutions and environmental technologies, said its wholly-owned subsidiary, Advanced Environmental Technologies Pte Ltd (AET), will be investing S$1.8 million to build the country’s first biogas plant for local poultry company N&N Agricultural Farm. (US$1=S$1.35). The investment...

(EnergyAsia, July 18, Friday) — Talisman Energy Inc, an independent upstream oil and gas company based in Alberta, Canada, said two of its wholly-owned subsidiaries have entered into agreements with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) within Iraq for interests in Blocks K44 and K39. Talisman will acquire a 40% interest in Block K44, with WesternZagros...

(EnergyAsia, July 18, Friday) — Yingli Green Energy, a China-based vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) product manufacturer, said it has signed a contract to supply 10 MW of PV modules to Enfinity Management bvba, a renewable energy project developer based in Ghent, Belgium, from July to December 2008. Yingli Green Energy chairman and CEO Liansheng Miao...

(EnergyAsia, July 18, Friday) — Flordia, US-based Clean Coal Technologies Inc said it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Sino-Mongolia International Railroad Systems Co Limited (SMIRSC) of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The MOU amends a previous agreement and provides for specific milestones to determine the suitability of CCTI’s technology to enhance some two...

combat climate change. The plan focuses on what the government calls the pillars of sustainable development including the promotion of solar energy and energy efficiency, creating a sustainable habitat, water conservation, preservation of the Himalayan ecosystem, and sustainable agriculture. So far, New Delhi has not disclosed how it proposes to fund the action plan. Critics...

protest against soaring diesel prices and high fuel taxes. They have threatened to extend the strike which could jeopardise the supply of vital foodstuff and commodities in many parts of India that rely mostly on trucks for their logistics. Any disruption will deepen India’s economic gloom brought on by slow growth and rising inflation. A...

Rs3 trillion this year as world oil prices continue to rise. (US$1=Rs43). Earlier estimates placed the subsidy cost at Rs2.4 trillion for the year, but that was based on an oil price of US$123 per barrel. Oil has since soared to well over US140. Bowing to economic pressure, the Indian government recently increased domestic fuel...

its customers throughout the country and Singapore after fire damaged one of its gas processing plants in Terengganu state early this month. Production was down for about two days at the plant in Kertih town, crippling the local power distribution system. Petronas Gas customers including manufacturers and power companies like Singapore’s Senoko Power and Malaysia’s...

of 26 gigawatts (GW) by 2015, generating well over $20 billion in revenues, said NanoMarkets, a US-based consulant. In a study, the company said this “extraordinary” growth rate is due in part to the rapid deployment of photovoltaics of all kinds to low cost, flexibility and manufacturing advantages associated with TFPV compared with the now...

solutions to the international energy industries, recently opened its new training centre in Sakhalin to be operated by its technical training business, PKT. Among the 150 guests welcomed by the centre general director, Malcolm Young were Alexander Kislicin, vice-governor of Sakhalin region and Evgeniy Safonof, head of Sakhalin’s department of education The Sakhalin Technical Training...

tariff-setting to ensure that power firms have the incentive to invest and upgrade their plants, an industry association said. The Asean Power Utilities/Authorities (Hapua) group said government restrictions on electricity rates were harming the financial strength of power utilities and deterring them from investing in much-needed new capacities. ASEAN stands for the 10-member Association of...

industry, now one of the world’s largest. The country is home to several leading manufacturers of photovoltaic cells, mostly for the export markets. While China has national standards in place for solar water-heating, it has yet to set standards for solar-power generation. Officials said they are aiming to put in place standards governing solar energy components...