First Solar's modules have been used to power a 40 megawatt (MW) ground-mounted photovoltaic power plant in Rajasthan. The project, commissioned by Reliance Power, a Reliance ADA Group company, was completed in five months and covers 350 acres. 500,000 First Solar thin film modules have been installed in the plant,...
To Samalkot from Schenectady, Obama mentions India again at General Electric plant
When I was part of the Presidential Executive Mission to India last November, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt and Boeing CEO Jim McNerney flanked Barack Obama in his first public appearances in Mumbai. Immelt's GE Energy unit had just won its largest order in India to supply six gas turbines,...
Reliance Power awards $8.2 billion order to Shanghai Electric
Reliance Power awarded an $8.2-billion contract to the Shanghai Electric Group, one of China's biggest power equipment manufacturers, to supply 36 coal-fired generators. Reliance Power said in a statement the order included 30,000 MW of boiler, turbine and generator packages for its coal-powered plants. The company described the order as...