Map by ENR The 1,483-kilometer industrial corridor from Delhi to Mumbai would contain nine megazones for industry, spread out along a future high-speed freight rail. Related Links: The Ten Most Noteworthy Rail Projects: Overview and Related Stories  Project: Delhi-Mumbai Industrial CorridorCost: $90 BillionThe Indian Cabinet last month approved the restructuring and financing for the future $90-billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, opening the way for forward for the ambitious megaproject planned along a future 1,483-kilometer high-speed-rail freight corridor. India’s rail ministry expects to invite bids this year for $2.2 billion worth of civil engineering contracts for the rail corridor’s first phase. The

Plans for federally controlled power lines to transmit solar power are moving ahead in the Southwest, but in the Northwest, lines to move wind power are being slowed while wind developments there are being re-evaluated.Earlier this month, the Western Area Power Administration announced it will hire construction firms to upgrade and build parts of a $91-million transmission- line project in southern Arizona.The 109-mile Electrical District 5-to-Palo Verde transmission project includes a mix of new and upgraded WAPA-owned 230-kV lines as well as the acquisition of capacity on a 500-kV line that runs to the Palo Verde hub.The federal power marketer

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company 2011 / Scott Sinklier RISING MARKET The production tax credit, set to expire in 2012, is spurring wind-farm construction. The expiration of the federal production tax credit for renewable energy, scheduled to take effect at the end of 2012, is spurring a boomlet in the construction of wind farms.The federal production tax credit (PTC), an important economic incentive for developers of renewable-energy facilities, provides wind-farm owners with a 2.2¢/kWh tax credit for wind power generated during the first 10 years of a facility's operation. However, the legislation under which the PTC was most recently extended—the American

Israel is pushing through two new energy projects to meet expanding needs with limited resources.State-owned Israel Electric Corp. (IEC) is seeking a partner to build an additional co-generation plant, valued at between $500 million and $600 million, at a site in northern Israel. The 450-MW plant would be located at Alon Tavor, near Afula, next to an existing facility.  A request for information (RFI), which was set to close on Oct. 1, says the investor would hold at least a 51% stake and possibly up to a 100% stake in the project. If the holding is less than 100%, IEC

chemicals-technology.com Island location near Singapore is close to Asian customers and has a deepwater port. chemicals-technology.com Facility will be sited on Jurong Island, already a major petrochemical complex in Singapore. On a 124-acre island site off the coast of Singpore, work has restarted on a $2.4-billion facility complex that could become one of the world's largest plants for producing aromatics, hydrocarbon products derived from crude oil.Originally set for completion this year, the Jurong Aromatics Complex (JAC) on Jurong Island has experienced setbacks caused by financial issues in the marketplace and among its investors, according to a published report. Singapore-based developer

Image courtesy AGL Energy/Meridian Energy Located 230 kilometers west of Melbourne, the farm will be powered by 140 3-MW turbines. Located 230-km west of Melbourne, the farm will be powered by 140 turbines Due for completion in 2013, the $1-billion wind farm will produce enough energy to power more than 220,000 homes, according to the developer. Developers of Australia’s Macarthur Wind Farm recently completed financing for the 420-MW project, which it says will be the Southern Hemisphere’s biggest wind farm. Construction already has started at the site in Southwest Victoria. Houston-based KBR Inc. is acting as the owner’s project manager.Due

Photo by AP/WideWorld POSTER CHILD President Obama praised Solyndra and its technology during a facility tour in May 2010. The bankruptcy of a Silicon Valley-based solar panel manufacturer, announced Aug. 31, followed by an FBI raid on the company a week later, sent shock waves through the solar industry and provided an easy opening for congressional Republicans to question the wisdom of the federal government's $535-million loan guarantee as well as its investment in renewable projects in general.But solar industry sources claim the bankruptcy of Solyndra LLC is an isolated case. And the Obama administration so far is showing no

Photo courtesy chevron PRISTINE? Builders of the $45-billion Gorgon LNG plant in Australia face strict bio-security rules. Uncertainty and volatility will dominate development of large-scale projects in new markets and untapped locales, say attendees of the Engineering and Construction Contracting in Phoenix on Sept. 7-10.With uncertainty and volatility stifling large-scale capital investment in new global markets and pristine locales, project challenges attracted a record number of attendees to a key energy-industrial megaprojects conference in Phoenix on Sept. 7-10.As development encroaches on increasingly remote areas, jurisdictions are becoming more protective of threatened species and environmental risks, Chevron Corp. executive Johann Van

Photo Courtesy of Penn State University / Steven Rubin Firms say the transmission build-out across the U.S. will take years to design and build. The U.S. transmission-line construction business is in the early stages of what may well turn out to be a 10- or even 20-year boom, according to transmission designers, contractors, electric utilities and independent transmission companies.“We're looking at a decade or more of double-digit annual growth in power delivery services,” which includes work not only transmission lines but also on substations and lower-voltage distribution lines, says Don Mundy, senior vice president in Overland Park, Kan.-based Black &

Photo Courtesy of Rangeland Energy Rangeland Energy is building North Dakotas first open-access, crude-oil terminal, which will accommodate 120-car unit trains and be capable of moving 80,000 barrels per day by rail. Related Links: Shale Gas Major Driver For New Projects Some say it is the biggest construction project in the U.S.—a job requiring $8 billion in rail and fuel terminals, oil pipelines, natural-gas plants, oil wells, highway upgrades, water distribution systems and more.To others, it is the Bakken shale formation, a 15,000-sq-mile oil field straddling North Dakota and Montana and producing 300,000 barrels per day of crude oil. Its