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Hydropower generation up by 23 per cent in Punjab

  • 6 years ago (2017-11-16)
  • David Flin

Hydroelectric power plants owned by the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) in India have produced 23 per cent more electricity from the months since April 2017 compared with the same period last year.

Siemens to supply more than 200 MW of mobile power to Afghanistan

  • 6 years ago (2017-11-15)
  • David Flin

The Afghanistan Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Siemens and Bayat Power for the provision by Siemens of its SGT-A45 mobile gas turbine for a three-phase energy project in the country.

Pakistan to install 6000 MW coal-fired power plants by 2025

  • 6 years ago (2017-11-14)
  • David Flin

Pakistan has said that 14 coal-fired power plants, based on Thar coal, with a combined capacity of 6000 MW, will be installed by 2025.

GE and Green Investment Group to deliver 650 MW of onshore wind to Sweden

  • 6 years ago (2017-11-13)
  • David Flin

GE and Green Investment Group have partnered to deliver and operate 650 MW of onshore wind through the Markbygden ETT wind farm in Northern Sweden.

Puerto Rico again in blackout after repaired power line fails

  • 6 years ago (2017-11-10)
  • David Flin

A major outage in Puerto Rico has plunged more than 80 per cent of the island back into darkness.

UK power market ripe for more mergers after SSE deal

  • 6 years ago (2017-11-09)
  • David Flin

A deal to merge the British retail power businesses owned by SSE and Germany’s Innogy could pave the way for more industry consolidation.

Siemens wins order for H-class gas turbines in USA

  • 6 years ago (2017-11-08)
  • David Flin

Tyr Energy has chosen Siemens as technology partner for the Hickory Run Energy Centre, a new 1000 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant to be built by Kiewit Power Constructors Co in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.

Bill Gates and China partner on world-first nuclear technology

  • 6 years ago (2017-11-07)
  • David Flin

Bill Gates’ nuclear firm TerraPower and the China National Nuclear Corporation have signed an agreement to develop a world-first nuclear reactor, one that uses the waste of other nuclear reactors as fuel.

Bangladesh to build 3600 MW LNG-based power plant

  • 6 years ago (2017-11-06)
  • David Flin

A 3600 MW LNG-based power plant is to be built at Payra in Bangladesh.

Coal ash to blame for Indian boiler explosion

  • 6 years ago (2017-11-03)
  • David Flin

The explosion at NTPC’s Unchahar power plant, in which the death toll currently stands at 39, may have been caused by the malfunctioning of fans designed to maintain pressure inside the boiler.