The Nepal government has passed the Electricity Regulatory Commission Bill, 2017, which entails the establishment of the Nepal Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), an independent body to regulate the power sector of the country. The bill […]
GE has signed a 12-year agreement with Daya Bay Nuclear Power Operations and Management (DNMC) to help boost reliability of DNMC’s Daya Bay, Ling Dong and Ling Ao nuclear power plants in Dapeng peninsula off the South China Sea […]
Israeli utility Star Pumped Storage has awarded a contract to GE Renewable Energy to supply and build the 244 MW (2×172 MW) KokhavHayarden hydro pumped storage station in Israel. GE will design, manufacture, supply and install electromechanical and hydromechanical […]
Sarawak Energy has awarded a contract to the joint venture of China’s Gezhouba Group Company Limited and Malaysia-based Untang Jaya SdnBhd for executing civil works of the 1,285 MW Baleh hydroelectric plant in Malaysia. The […]
Finnish company Wartsila has won the engineering, procurement and construction contract to supply two heavy fuel oil engines to Morocco’s state utility. The engines will have the capability to use light fuel oil as a […]
Singapore-based independent power producer (IPP) Summit Power International will invest $1 billion in power generation and LNG supply projects in Bangladesh in the next three years. The IPP will develop a gas-to-power generation facility and an offshore […]
The Cairo Electricity Production Company, a subsidiary of the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC), has awarded a contract to Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) to upgrade the 750 MW Cairo North CCPPÂ Module I located 20 […]
Pakistan’s vertically integrated electric energy corporation K-Electric has received approval from its board of directors for the development of a 900 MW (2×450 MW) combined cycle power plant (CCPP) at the Bin Qasim Power Station Complex […]
Indonesia-based PT Energi Nusantara MerahPutih (ENMP) will be developing a 600 MW combined cycle gas-fired power plant in the Bantaeng Industrial Estate, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. ENMP has signed a heads of agreement for the same with the industrial […]
The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company has awarded the contract for construction of two new 500/220 kV substations in the Delta region to Siemens. The two new substations – Samanoud and AboulMatameer – will transmit electricity […]
Siemens has received an order from Alghanim International to supply power generation equipment for the 900 MW Sabiya Extension 3 combined cycle power plant in Kuwait. The project is being built on the existing site […]
Finnish energy group Wartsila has won multiple contracts in the international market. It will supply 13 natural gas engines and performance-related equipment for the Sumbagut-2 peaking power plant in North Sumatra, Indonesia, providing an output […]
Tunisia’s national utility SociétéTunisienne de l’Electricitéet du Gaz has awarded Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and the Sumitomo Corporation a joint contract to build a 450 MW gas-fired power plant in Tunisia. Sumitomo will provide […]
Myanmar is planning to set up a 1,280 MW coal-fired power plant in eastern Kayin to address the country’s power deficit. Only a third of the population of 60 million is connected to the grid […]
Malaysia’s KKB Engineering and China’s State Nuclear Electric Power Planning Design and Research Institute Company Limited (SNPDRI) have signed anMoU, under which both the entities will collaborate to explore power plant construction opportunities in the […]
The Renewable Energy Project Development Office has issued the request for qualification for the 400 MW wind plant at Dumat Al Jandal – Saudia Arabia’s first utility-scale wind power project. Potential bidders and plant developers need […]
State-owned Electricity of Vietnam’s transmission subsidiary, National Power Transmission Corporation, has commissioned the 220 kV Thai Thuy substation in Thai Binh Province. The VND 346.5 billion substation involved the installation of a 220/110/22 kV, 250 […]
The supply of electricity from India to Nepal through the 132 kV Raxaul-Parwanipur transmission line is yet to be initiated even six months after the completion of its construction and successful test transmission. Reportedly, the […]
China’s TBEA Company Limited has commenced works on Mongolia’s 330 kV line linking southern Mongolia, Ulan Bator and Gobi. The $119 million project is likely to be commissioned by 2019. The Chinese government will provide […]
State-owned Chinese transmission system operator State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) has commenced trial operations on the 500 kV third power transmission link between the Sichuan and Chongqing power grids. The CNY 1.62 billion project […]
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