6Jan

Thar coal to generate 10,000 MW by 2020: Ebad

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Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan said that the government had devised a plan to generate 10,000 megawatts of electricity from Thar coal by 2020.

The federal government had been approached for laying a transmission line to take the electricity from Thar field to the national grid, he said while presiding over a meeting on Thar coal at the Governor’s House Thursday. He said installation of transmission network is the integral part of the plan which should be ready by the time power projects are ready to generate electricity from Thar coal.

The Governor pointed out that Thar coal would be utilised to make Pakistan self-sufficient in power generation to strengthen economy and make this area the hub of the petro-chemical industry.

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2Jan

Indian generator Essar Energy to build eight coal-fired power plants

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An energy company listed on the London Stock Exchange is planning to spend up to an estimated $6bn (£3.8bn) building eight coal-fired power stations that could add tens of millions of tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere.

Essar Energy has just brought online the first part of the 1,200MW Salaya 1 plant in Gujarat on the west coast of India and says this and other stations are needed to counter power shortages. The move comes after countries around the world met in Durban, South Africa, this month to try to hammer out a new climate change treaty to cut global CO2 emissions.

Britain is introducing cleaner fuels and phasing out its old coal-fired power stations while saying that new ones would need carbon capture and storage schemes attached. But a spokesman for Essar, which is listed on the FTSE 100 but operates largely in India, said its customers on the subcontinent could not afford the extra costs associated with subsidising cleaner technologies.

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4Nov

Foster + Partners Unveil Thames Hub Plan To Update Britain’s Energy & Transport Infrastructure

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To make bold, sweeping changes, sometimes you need to implement a massive plan. Foster + Partners, in collaboration with Halcrow and Volterra, have unveiled a vision for Britain that completely re-imagines transportation and energy infrastructure. The study proposes a giant spine running the length of the UK which combines rail, energy, communications and data. A new hub, located on the Thames, will create a river barrier and crossing, an international airport, a tidal power plant, and a shipping and high speed rail complex. It is only in dreaming big that we can begin to overhaul our inefficient systems and transport ourselves into the future, and this plan is one way to get there.

Foster + Partners, Halcrow and Volterra have worked together on a self-funded study to produce a detailed vision for the Thames Hub. The study is unique for its scale and strategic cross-sector thinking and the outcome is a holistic vision for future infrastructure development in Britain.

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21Jul

Britain is ready with its biggest solar power field developed in just 6 weeks

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In the recent past, Britain has seen a surge in developing of alternative, off the grid power systems across the country. There have been an array of projects which mushroomed in quick succession, soon after the government’s announcement of a review date. Recently, Britain witnessed an old mine turning into a 1.4MW solar plant, a combined wind and solar power plant and a huge solar plant by Toyota. Now a new solar plant has come up very recently which has surpassed all the older ones with its sheer magnitude and very less time frame taken for development. Conergy has built a 5MW solar field, in only 6 weeks time.

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