Month: June 2019

India’s Waaree Energies has commissioned a 49.5 MW ground-mounted solar project worth $40 million in Vietnam. The project has been developed for Song Giang Solar Power on a 60 hectare site in Cam Ranh, Khanh […]

The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), has approved a $995,000 grant to support the roll-out of a sustainable procurement framework for independent power producers (IPPs) in Ethiopia. […]

State-owned Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) plans to commission the 400/220 kV Mariakani substation in Kilifi county by October 2020. The under-construction substation will enable the increased supply of geothermal power from the Olkaria fields […]

The Government of Benin has approved the construction of four solar PV power plants with a combined capacity of 50 MW. The projects will be developed under the Millennium Challenge Account-Bénin II (MCA-Benin II) programme, […]

The Egypt and Cyprus governments have signed a framework agreement for the construction and commissioning of the high voltage direct current (HVDC) EuroAfrica Interconnector, which is being developed by EuroAfrica Interconnector Limited, a unit of […]

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation has approved $87 million in financing for the 250 MW Lekela wind power project in Egypt. in the Gulf of Suez. The project will support economic growth in Egypt through […]

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a loan of $90 million for the 216 MW Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project, AIIB’s first project in Nepal. The project is being developed by the Nepal Water […]

South Korea’s largest electric utility the Korea Electric Power Corporation has awarded a contract to ABB to build two new HVDC converter stations linking the mainland with Jeju, the country’s largest island and one of its nine provinces. […]

Germany-based wind energy major wpd AG has secured five onshore wind projects with a total capacity of over 160 MW in South Korea. The projects have been secured as a result of cooperation with a […]

The International Development Association, the concessional financing arm of the World Bank, has approved a loan of $65 million to complete Pakistan’s infrastructure component under the Central Asia-South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project [CASA] […]

The State Grid Corporation of China has awarded ABB a contract for the supply of converter transformers and high voltage equipment for the 800 kV ultra-high voltage direct current Shanbei-Wuhan transmission line. The 1,100 km […]

The World Bank has approved a $300 million loan for the China Renewable Energy and Battery Storage Promotion Project, which aims to promote the large-scale deployment of battery storage systems to increase renewable energy integration. […]

The power unit of the Philippines-based conglomerate San Miguel Corporation is arranging funds for the construction of two 300 MW circulating fluidised bed coal-fired power plants in Pagbilao, Quezon, and Mariveles, Bataan, at an estimated […]

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Limited has completed the shipment of an M701F gas turbine to PT PLN (Persero), Indonesia’s state-owned electricity provider. The unit will serve as the core of a 500 MW natural gas-fired […]

Indonesia’s state-owned power company PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PT PLN) plans to construct a 2,933 km power line, also known as the Tol Listrik Sumatra project, by 2021. Under the project, the 275 kV Sarulla-Simangkuk line, […]

Vietnamese National Power Transmission Corporation, a subsidiary of the Electricity of Vietnam Group, has commissioned the second 250 MVA, 220/110/22 kV transformer at the 220 kV Xuân Loc substation, increasing the total capacity of the substation […]