Power

ABB wins orders worth over $300 mn for UHVDC power link in China

ABB has won orders worth over $300 million to supply transformers and other key equipment to enable the world's first 1,100 kilovolt (kV) ultra-high-voltage...

ABB wins $30 mn order from Norway’s Statnett

ABB has won an order worth more than $30 million from Norway's transmission system operator Statnett for two substations that will strengthen grid reliability...

Kudankulam n-plant II to generate 1,000 MW in 3 months

The second unit of Kudankulam atomic power project in Tamil Nadu that went critical or started nuclear fission on Sunday is expected to touch...

GE unveils MV7-Series Drive with UWave technology

GE’s Power Conversion business has unveiled the new powerful MV7-Series, ultimate waveform, multilevel, high-power drive, the MV7-Series Drive with UWave technology. GE  adopted a 5-level...

Bhaduri to be new IGCAR Director

Distinguished scientist Arun Kumar Bhaduri will take over as the next Director of India's fast breeder reactor research unit, the Indira Gandhi Centre for...

AERB finds other reactors fine, Kakrapar leakage under probe

India's atomic energy regulator found the pressure tubes and heavy water leakage warning-shutdown systems to be fine in all other pressurised heavy water reactors...

AERB nod to Kundankulam nuclear plant II fission process

India's nuclear sector regulator has given the nod for the second 1,000 MW unit at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu to go critical/start fission process,...

CSIR to analyse coal quality for affordable power generation

To ensure that quality coal reaches the power generation companies, the CSIR on Tuesday signed an MoU with Coal India and NTPC to analyse...

Indian states decide to provide 24×7 power for all by 2019

Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister for Power, Coal and Renewable Energy, said that all the states have resolved to provide 24x7 power for all...

Kudankulam plant safe from Fukushima-like incident: Russian builders

The nuclear power plant at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu is resilient to Fukushima-like incidents, say its Russian builders, adding that post the incident in...