Month: September 2019

Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited has invited international competitive bids for the design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of a 400 kV outdoor gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) substation at Bogura (West) and Rahanpur, along with […]

Spain-based wind power equipment provider Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has announced plans to set up its first offshore wind power nacelle assembly facility outside of Europe, in Taiwan. This is an important milestone for the […]

South Korea’s state-run power company, the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), has awarded a $100 million contract to GE’s Grid Solutions business through KEPCO-Alstom Power Electronics Systems – a joint venture (JV) of GE Power […]

Laos, Malaysia and Thailand have agreed on a second power purchase agreement (PPA) under the Laos, Thailand and Malaysia Power Integration Project (LTM-PIP) at the 37th ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting. The first 100 MW […]

A consortium of India’s Tata Projects Limited and Thailand-based TEDA Company Limited has completed the construction of a 41.42 km long 500 kV line section, which is part of the 78.5 km long, 500 kV […]

Singapore-based Vena Energy has commissioned the 70 MW Mingus solar photovoltaic (PV) project in the salt plains of Chiayi county, Taiwan. Mingus is currently the largest ground-mounted utility-scale solar project in Taiwan. It features 195,000 […]

Scaterc Solar’s 66 MW direct current (DC) solar power plant in Malaysia has been connected to the national grid. The Merchang plant is the company’s first large-scale solar project in the country and is expected […]

The Cambodian Ministry of Mines and Energy has asked the China Huadian Corporation’s (CHC) subsidiary to reconduct the feasibility study for setting up two hydropower plants totalling 170 MW in Koh Kong province. China Huadian […]

The Philippines’ Department of Energy has said that it will not suspend coal power plant development until the country meets its energy security goal. The Philippines has adopted a technology-neutral policy to build its capacity […]

Malaysia’s Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change has stated that the country will need investments of RM 33 billion to increase the share of renewable energy in its energy generation mix, from […]

Siemens and Orascom Construction have signed an agreement with Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity to rebuild the Baiji 1 and Baiji 2 power plants aggregating 1.6 GW in capacity in the northern part of the country. […]

Iraq has signed a contract with the Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority for funding a transmission line passing from Kuwait to Iraq’s southern port of Al Faw. The 300 km long line will have a […]

Abu Dhabi’s Department of Energy has signed an MoU with the Chinese state-owned utility, State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), for supporting the energy sector in Abu Dhabi. This is in line with Abu Dhabi’s […]

State-owned Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) has signed an EGP 587.4 million contract with a Xian-led consortium, comprising the Xian Electric Engineering Company, XD-EGEMAC (a JV of the China XD Group, Xian XD Switchgear Electric […]

Industrial Promotion Services, the industrial and infrastructure development arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, and Norwegian renewable energy company SN Power have signed agreements for the 147 MW Ruzizi III hydropower project […]

The federal government of Nigeria has formally requested for a loan from the Export-Import Bank [Exim] of China for the implementation of the 3,050 MW Mambilla hydropower project. The latter will connect with the Central […]