Power Utility
Singapore to test-beds electric vehicles
A multi-agency taskforce has been set up to spearhead the test-bedding of Electric Vehicles in Singapore. It will be chaired by the Energy Market...
Singapore to test-beds electric vehicles
A multi-agency taskforce has been set up to spearhead the test-bedding of Electric Vehicles in Singapore. It will be chaired by the Energy Market...
HK Electric promotes electric cooking
HK Electric is persuading caterers to switch to electric cooking. In the biennial HOFEX 2009 Exhibition, HK Electric is putting on its "Five-star...
Poll says Chinese IT managers ignore power concerns
Many organizations in the country do not factor in the cost of electricity and utilities in their IT budgets, according to a research from IDC China...
Hot winter leaves Kansai Electric in the cold
The decrease in electricity sales due to lesser power demand for heating forced Kansai Electric to revise its financial forecasts.
Macau continues residential electric subsidy
CEM residential customers will continue to receive a maximum monthly subsidy set at US$18.75 from April 2009 to March 2010. The second phase of the...
Kyushu's slump now at six months
Kyushu Electric registered electric sales of about 6,943 million kWh for February 2009, down by 7.4 percent from February 2008. The sales volume was...
Revamp causes Macau power outage
20,000 customers were affected by power outage caused by a short circuit of a transformer at Macau Norte Substation.
Kyushu Electric's sales volume down by 1 percent
Sales by Kyushu Electric Power Company for January 2009 amounted to approximately 7,736 million kWh, down by 1 percent from January 2008. The sales...
CEM to boost service via Outage Management System
The Companhia de Electricidade de Macau (CEM) is enhancing its internal communication and customer service by providing timely outage information...
Cobalt-60 will now be produced by China
China will now produce cobalt-60 to address the country’s need for the isotope, according to the World Nuclear News. This initiative is intended to...
Japan and the UAE join hands for peaceful nuclear energy
Japan has signed a memorandum with the UAE to cooperate in the field of peaceful atomic energy. Takamori Yoshikawa, Japan's senior vice-minister of...
Korea's Jeolla region emerging as the Mecca of Photovoltaic industry
Photovoltaic businesses are hogging the spotlight thanks to skyrocketing international oil prices, and Korea's Jeolla region is emerging as the Mecca...
T&D Infrastructure and Workforce Challenges Call For Integrated Asset and Workforce Management
Two T&D challenges have arisen from the rapid expansion of Asia's power industry: (1) a diverse asset infrastructure, and (2) a young workforce...
Uranium's going nuclear
The uranium industry's worst year is about to collide with a nuclear construction program in India and China that rivals the ones undertaken during...
Tata’s tornado
Indonesia may be known as ‘The land below the wind', but for foreign players in the power market, conditions are about to get a whole lot stormier...
Lighting up Macau in more ways than one
Companhia de Electricidade de Macau (CEM), which has lit up the lightbulbs in Territory of Macau for more than a century, and its CEO Franklin...
Tenaga’s Net Income Falls
With coal prices more than doubling in the past twelve months, it was only a matter of time that surging prices would push some producers into losses...