Volvo Penta has started production of industrial engines for the power generation market at the Volvo Group’s facility in Curitiba, Brazil.
The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat ) has announced that it is asking the country’s energy regulator to allow it to build more renewable power plants and to increase its power generation capacity to half of the country’s total capacity, in order to strengthen national power supply security.
Siemens has announced that it will supply three direct drive SWT-3.2-113 wind turbines for the onshore wind power plant at Naundorf, Saxony, Germany.
Siemens has said that it is putting new wind power investment plans in the UK on hold due to uncertainty caused by the UK’s vote to leave the EU.
The amount of electricity generated using solar panels is likely to expand as much as six-fold by 2030 as the cost of production falls below competing natural gas and coal-fired power plants, according to a report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
Coal availability in India has resulted in a situation where power plants are requesting Coal India Limited (CIL) to stop further supply. Nearly a dozen plants in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and West Bengal have written to CIL, citing high stock and falling demand as reasons to stop supply.