Spotlight on refurbishment
G P Sims, chairman of the ICOLD Committee on Rehabilitation of Dams, explains the fundamental principles behind refurbishing…
Analysis
Rescuing the Philippines’ first BOOT
10 Aug 98Casecnan was planned as the first irrigation and power project built on a ‘build, own, operate, transfer’ basis…
The gas-fired threat to SE Asian hydro power
10 Aug 98Hydro power is in danger of being overtaken by gas-fired generation, because perceptions of its economic and social…
Caterpillar makes further tracks into the power sector
20 Jul 98Following recent acquisitions worth more than $2 billion, Caterpillar has formally announced the setting up of a new organisation, the
Sapugaskanda hand-over well ahead of schedule
20 Jul 98Under budget and ahead of schedule after a construction phase of only twelve months for a country's first…
Single row condensers build on success
20 Jul 98In the seven years since its first commercial application, at Ogden-Huntington waste-to-energy plant, USA, the Single Row Condensing…
Using overhead covered conductors at high voltages
20 Jul 98A prototype high voltage line with covered conductors is in operation in Finland and similar conductors are now…
Compact CFBs scaled up for Tha Toom
20 Jul 98Thailand's National Power Supply Co is building a circulating fluidized bed cogeneration plant at Tha Toom in Prachinburi…
A landmark for private power in Mexico
20 Jul 98The first unit at Samalayuca II in northern Mexico entered service in June. The 700 MW project is…
Smart guys spurn suckers
20 Jul 98Conservationists in some countries take their empty glass bottles, metal cans, old newspapers and junk mail to collection centres for