Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has announced its first contract to supply its 4.X wind turbine platform in China.
India’s state-owned NTPC has announced that it has added two 660MW units each at Tanda and Khargone thermal power plants.
Siemens Gas and Power and PJSC Kazanorgsintez, one of Russia’s largest chemical companies, have signed a contract for the turnkey construction of a 250MW combined cycle power plant in Tatarstan, Russia.
NTPC, India’s largest power company, has announced that it will not undertake any new coal-based generation for the next few years as part of measures to reduce its carbon footprint, and it will invest $3.5 billion to set up one of the world’s largest solar power parks at Kutch in Gujarat.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has held a launch ceremony in Taiwan for the company’s first offshore nacelle assembly facility outside of Europe.
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power announced that Shin-Wolsong Unit 2, a PWR with 1000 MW capacity, stopped operating at 9.44pm on 6 September.
Reliance Power has signed a partnership agreement with JERA, one of Japan’s largest power utilities, to jointly set up a 750 MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant, Phase 1 of a project at Meghnaghat, Bangladesh.
Siemens has announced that it will modernise and commission six 80MW steam turbines to Hindustan Zinc Ltd, India’s leading zinc-lead mining company.
The Bangladesh Government has signed a $185 million financing agreement with the World Bank to add about 310 MW renewable energy generation capacity.
Priyvrat Singh, Energy Minister of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, faced some embarrassment when power supply to the state Congress office failed during a press conference he was addressing.