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Two AP1000 plants will be delivered at Haiyang as the first pour of basemat structural concrete has been completed.

Wärtsilä has been awarded operations and maintenance agreements by the Nishat Group of Companies for two power plants in Pakistan. The 5-year agreements call for Wärtsilä to operate, maintain, and supply all labour and spare parts for the Nishat Power Limited and Nishat Chunian Power Limited plants. NPL and NCPL are Independent Power Producers supplying electricity to Pakistan's national grid. Each of these two plants will utilize eleven Wärtsilä 18V46 engines and a steam turbine to produce a total electrical output of 200 MWe. Both the NPL & NCPL power plants are located near the city of Lahore, and are scheduled to become operational in the 3rd quarter of 2009 and 1st quarter of 2010, respectively. "Wärtsilä and the Nishat Group have worked together as one team throughout the development of both these projects, which are now undergoing installation and commissioning," said Mr. Mian Mohammad Mansha, Chairman of the Nishat Group. Wärtsilä already has a strong presence in Pakistan, with nearly 1800 MW of Wärtsilä power plants either in operation or under construction. The Nishat O&M orders mean that more than half of this output will be operated and maintained by Wärtsilä's own personnel under O&M agreements. "We have supplied the power plants for several businesses belonging to the Nishat Group, including these two plants. Wärtsilä has an O&M agreement for the 33 MW captive power plant at DG Cement, which is also a part of the Nishat Group," said Christoph Vitzthum, Group Vice President, Wärtsilä Services.  

Electricity tariff for Singaporean households will increase by US$0.017 per kWh to US$0.1534 per kWh. On average, taking into account the tariffs for all customer categories, the tariff increase is 12.71 percent.

ABB's first locally designed and manufactured 3-phase shunt reactor is now rolling off the production line of ABB Chongqing Transformer Co. Ltd.

China Energy Recovery won a US$5.05 million Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract for a heat recovery system for Hubei Sanning Chemical. The latter is a fertilizer and coal chemical subsidiary of Jincheng Coal Group, a top-10 coal producer and one of the 200 Largest Companies in China.

CLP will expand its renewable portfolio to approximately 450MW with a 99MW wind farm in Tamil Nadu, India.

Net generation from China Resources Power's clean energy for six months ending 30 June totaled 1,109,775 Mwh. This accounts for 2.4 percent of total net generation in the first half.

American Superconductor Corporation has formed AMSC Korea to serve South Korea’s rapidly growing wind energy and power grid markets. Headquartered in Busan, South Korea, the new division will provide local applications engineering, sales, business development and field service support for AMSC customers, which include LS Cable, KEPCO, KEPRI, KERI, Doosan Heavy Industries and Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Wärtsilä has been contracted by Lihir Gold Limited to supply a US$83.8 million barge-mounted power plant to its Lihir Island gold mine.

CEM immediately deployed over 10 vehicles and 40 staff for network operation and emergency service to ensure Macao’s reliable power supply as Typhoon Koppu mauled the Pearl River Delta area last week.

POWER-GEN Asia, the premier conference and exhibition for the power generation and transmission and distribution industries, will return to Bangkok, Thailand, who last hosted the event in 2007.

With an initial investment of €50 million, AREVA will construct its transmission and distribution technology center for Chinese clients. Located in Shanghai's Caohejing Pujiang High-Tech Park, China, it will be the first Research and Development center of its kind to be built by an international T&D company in China.

Eco-tech Environmental Power Co., Ltd. passed the 2008 environmental credit examination conducted by Dongguan Environmental Protection Bureau, and was graded as Environmental-creditable enterprise.

After acquiring a Bataan plant, San Miguel Corporation expressed interest in buying the Sucat Thermal plant, a dormant plant in Manila.

Satisfactory evaluation results of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant while generating power at 75 percent prompted TEPCO to test it while maximising generation.

Green Core Geothermal Inc. gave the highest bid for the 192.5-megawatt Palinpinon and 112.5-MW Tongonan geothermal power plants with $220-million. The amount also met the reserve price set by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp., according to its spokesperson Conrad Tolentino.