Mineral exploration and development company Kibo Mining has signed an MoU with Tanzania Electricity Supply Company Limited to purchase power generated from its 300 MW Mbeya coal-to-power project in Tanzania. The MoU is a precursor […]
Pakistan’s Private Power and Infrastructure Board has granted approval to UK-based Oracle Power and its partners for the development of a 700 MW coal-fired power plant in Sindh province. Oracle has collaborated with Chinese state-owned […]
State-owned Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Limited (CPGCBL) has commenced construction of the 1.2 GW Matarbari power plant in Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh. The ultra supercritical coal-fired power plant comprises two units of 600 MW […]
Turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA has entered into a non-binding MoU with the Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group (YGG), a China-based metals manufacturing company, to develop the Taichung Harbour for offshore wind activities […]
ACWA Power has received a contract from the Renewable Energy Project Development Office for the 300 MW Sakaka solar project in Saudi Arabia. ACWA Power has signed a PPA with the Saudi Power Procurement Company […]
Sunseap International Private Limited is set to collaborate with InfraCo Asia Development Private Limited for the development of a 168 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Vietnam. Both the companies are planning to form a […]
The Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy of Egypt is planning to set up a 2,400 MW pumped storage hydropower plant at Ataqa Mountain in Suez. The EPC contract for the project has been awarded […]
CG Power Systems Indonesia, a wholly owned subsidiary of CG Power and Industrial Solutions Limited has received an order worth IDR 744 billion ($55 million) from Indonesian State utility PT PLN (Persero) for the manufacture […]
The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) commissioned the 132/11 kV mobility substation in January 2018, which has a transformer capacity of 150 MVA. The construction of the AED 173 million substation commenced in July […]
One of the key comments in this year’s Economic Survey was regarding aggressive bidding in the coal block auctions. “In the case of spectrum, coal and renewables, auctions may have led to a winner’s curse, […]
Smart metering is essentially the first step towards a smart grid. It involves not only the installation of smart meters but also the setting up of communication networks, control centres and data management systems. It […]
Reiterating the government’s commitment to providing 24×7 power supply by March 2019, the power minister, in a recent announcement, stated that appropriate legislation will be enacted to penalise discoms if they indulge in unjustified load […]
The increasing influx of renewables, greater variability in load and varied sources of generation have necessitated greater flexibility and automation in grid operations and stepping up the smart grid efforts for dynamic monitoring of grid […]
The Economic Survey 2017-18, which was released as a precursor to the union budget, made some key observations about the power sector. Among other things, it highlights that the government has not only focused on […]
In 2017, the government announced its ambitious plan to shift to an all-electric car fleet by 2030. To this end, it is planning to invest Rs 1.8 trillion in electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure. In the […]
Solar Energy Corporation of India’s (SECI) latest wind project auction of 2,000 MW interstate transmission system (ISTS)-connected capacity, the largest so far in the country, attracted the lowest winning bid of Rs 2.44 per kWh […]
Distributed generation, also known as on-site generation, distributed resources, distributed energy resources and dispersed power, is the use of small-scale power generation technologies located close to the load being served. Meanwhile, microgrids are groups of […]
In December 2015, 195 countries made history when they agreed to the world’s most ambitious pact to limit carbon emissions. The Paris Agreement, so named because that is where the COP21 meeting of nations took […]
The perform, achieve and trade (PAT) is one of the flagship schemes launched by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) in April 2012 under the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency, which is one of […]
With increased adoption of smart technologies in the country’s power sector, the need for cybersecurity has become paramount. To this end, the central government has been undertaking a number of initiatives to address the growing […]
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