The state-owned Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) has signed a contract with Jordan’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources for exporting 10 GWh of electricity to the latter on an annual basis. Currently, Egypt exports […]
Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation ABB has secured a retrofit deal from the Philippines-based Energy Development Corporation (EDC), one of the world’s largest vertically integrated geothermal firms, to upgrade six geothermal units of two power plants totalling […]
The Energy Market Authority (EMA) has announced plans to expand the ambit of the open electricity market in Singapore to include all consumers zone by zone, starting November 1, 2018. The move will enable about […]
Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued revised feed-in tariffs (FiTs) for domestic wind power projects. Accordingly, the 20-year FiT for onshore wind power projects has been fixed at 8.5 US cents per kWh […]
The state-owned Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has signed a VND 17 billion financing agreement with the US Trade and Development Agency to examine the feasibility of advanced energy storage technologies in Vietnam. The deployment of […]
Vietnamese private developer Power Plus Vietnam Company Limited has started the construction of a 30 MW solar power plant in Vietnam’s central province of Binh Thuan. The plant entails a total investment of $43.48 million. […]
Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KENGEN) has awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract to Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corporation for the construction of a 70 MW geothermal power plant in Nakuru County, Republic of Kenya. The […]
The Kenyan Ministry of Energy has announced the completion of the long-delayed Loiyangalani-Suswa transmission line. However, the line will begin to supply power to the country’s national grid only in December 2018. The project involved […]
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has operationalised the 330 kV Gombe-Damaturu transmission line and a 150 MVA transformer at the Damaturu substation, along with associated 75 MVAr reactors. The project was commissioned in three […]
The Myanmar government is expected to raise $298.8 million through loan assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to expand the country’s national grid in seven regions and states. The expansion project area covers Yangon, […]
The World Bank has approved a $100 million loan under the Nepal Energy Sector Development Policy Credit programme to strengthen the finances and operations of Nepal’s energy sector. The credit aims to implement key policy, […]
The state-owned NEA has awarded a $5.6 million construction contract for the World Bank-funded Nepal-India Electricity Transmission & Trade Project to China-based Hengtong Optic Electric Company Limited. The scope of the contract includes the installation, […]
The NEA has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Sushmit Enery Private Limited to purchase 20 MW of electricity generated by the upcoming 24.78 MW Kunban Khola Hydropower Project (KKHP). The project is located […]
SES Saran LLP plans to commission its 100 MW solar farm, reportedly the largest solar project in Central Asia, in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan by the end of 2018. The design capacity of the […]
The Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MoEE) in Myanmar has issued a notice to proceed (NTP) to a consortium of Austria-based Andritz, Japan-based Kansai and Myanmar-based Shwe Taung Group for the development of the 56 […]
There was significant top-tier restructuring in the past year in both public and private sector power companies in the past 12 months. At the central level, new heads were appointed for the Central Electricity Regulatory […]
The issue of stressed assets is not new for the power sector. However, developments in the past 12 months have made it imperative for the stakeholders to take immediate steps. With a view to improve […]
It was another year of significant action for power sector companies. In the generation segment, while thermal and hydro project commissioning was led by public majors, the renewable space was dominated by the private sector, […]
NTPC Limited, India’s biggest energy conglomerate, caters to almost 23 per cent of the country’s power demand. The company is looking to increase this share over the next few years, with the addition of 4-5 […]
With this issue we celebrate our twenty-second anniversary. As before, we use this occasion to provide you with a view on the state of the sector, our own as well as that of leading sector […]
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