Month: April 2019

Afghanistan’s Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) is expected to begin work on the CASA 1000 project simultaneously at three different provinces of Afghanistan in April 2019. The Afghanistan section of the project will cost $460 […]

Ethiopian energy company Tulu Moye Geothermal Operations Plc has invited expressions of interest (EoIs) for developing Phase I (50 MW) of the Tulu Moye geothermal project in the Eastern Rift Valley, Ethiopia. The selected contractor […]

IFC InfraVentures has signed a joint development agreement with the Malawi government to develop the 258 MW Mpatamanga hydropower project on the Shire river. The agreement has been signed in coordination with the World Bank […]

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has partnered with Centrica Business Solutions to decarbonise the Japanese grid. TEPCO is using Centrica’s demand-side response platform FlexPond to deliver industrial demand response capacity for the reliability of the […]

Cambodia’s Electricite Du Cambodge has signed an agreement to import 200 MW of power from Laos’s Dan Sahong hydropower dam for the period 2019 to 2021. At present, the transmission lines required for the import […]

The Malaysian state-owned utility Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) has entered into an agreement with global infrastructure investor I Squared Capital to acquire 100 per cent stake in Singapore-based firm Amplus Energy Solutions, which owns a […]

The private concessionaire for the Philippine transmission network, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, has received approval from the Energy Regulatory Commission for construction of the 69 kV La Trinidad–Calot line project. The key […]

Indonesian power company PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara PLN (Persero) is planning to complete a 275 kV project that will connect north Sumatra with south Sumatra in 2019. The electricity corridor will run from Lahat in […]

State-owned Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited is set to receive a $120 million loan from multilateral financial institution Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for implementing the Bangladesh Power System Upgrade and Expansion Project. The […]

Pakistan’s National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) has installed additional transformers at various grid stations across the country, adding around 1,750 MVA of transformer capacity to its grid network. NTDC has installed a 750 MVA […]

GE Power has synchronised one 660 MW supercritical unit of China Power Hub Generation Company Limited’s 1,320 coal-based power plant in Balochistan, Pakistan three months ahead of schedule. CPHGC is a joint venture between China […]

China’s United Gas Turbine Company (UGTC) will collaborate with Italy’s Ansaldo Energia to develop heavy-duty gas turbines. Ansaldo Energia will support UGTC’s heavy duty gas turbine programme with technical experience in design, engineering and testing. […]

Two subsidiaries of China Energy Engineering Corporation Limited have commenced construction on a 500 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant and a 130.88 MW/268.6 MWh energy storage facility in China. Shanxi Electric Power Engineering Company Limited […]

Chinese grid network developer China Southern Power Grid (CSG) plans to invest CNY 170 billion during 2018-22 to meet the increasing electricity demand in the country’s rapidly growing Pearl river delta region. The region houses […]

French utility EDF Group has signed an agreement with the China Energy Investment Corporation to jointly construct and operate two offshore windfarms totalling 500 MW in capacity, in China. According to the agreement, the EDF […]