The controversial Myitsone dam project in Myanmar's Kachin state has been suspended for over two years now and stop-work costs, amounting to millions of US dollars, are mounting. No resolution seems to be in sight for the China-contracted project. The company, China Power Investment, may be facing losses, but local Myanmar citizens want the government to scrap the development entirely. Things came to a stan ...

Seven groups are keen on bidding for a government project to upgrade Mindanao's main power plant. State-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp (Psalm) today identified the seven potential bidders as Alstom Philippines, China International Water and Electric Corp, HydroChina ZhongNan-HEC-BSPJV, Kaltimex Energy Philippines Inc, PHP Philippine Hydro Project Inc, Vicente T. Lao Construction, an ...

The National Power Corporation in the southern Philippines has totally shut down the Agus 4 hydro-electric power plant that resulted to rotating brownouts in Mindanao. After Agus 4, the NPC said it would also schedule the Pulangi hydro-electric power plant Number 2 for repair because of damage it took during the typhoon Bopha last year. Lawyer Romero Pacilan, legal counsel and spokesperson of NPC, has told ...

Argentina's government on Wednesday awarded a contract worth billions of dollars for the construction of two hydroelectric dams to a consortium led by China Gezhouba Co. Ltd. The group, which also includes Argentine firms Electroingenieria SA and Hidrocuyo SA, will construct a $4 billion hydroelectric project capable of generating 1,740 megawatts of electricity in the sparsely populated province of Santa Cr ...

The World Bank has agreed to provide US$14 billion for the construction of Pakistan's 4,500-MW Diamer-Bhasha hydropower project, the Kuwait News Agency has reported. Pakistani Minster of Finance Ishaq Dar said in a statement that the country was able to secure the financing after convincing the bank that it is not legally necessary to seek a no-obligation certificate from neighboring India. The World Bank h ...

Extensive hydropower development in the upper reaches of China's Yangtze River poses a threat to the future safety of Shanghai's water supply, says a new study. The report, by Yangtze River Fishery Resources Committee under the Ministry of Agriculture and World Wide Fund for Nature, known as WWF, is based on a scientific expedition by 32 researchers from government agencies and NGOs through five provincial ...

Myanmar plans to give the green light to three of six hydroelectric projects to begin construction on the Thanlwin River within three months, a high-ranking official at the Ministry of Electric Power said on August 16. “We plan to build six hydropower projects on the Thanlwin River,” said the official who asked not to be named. “Feasibility studies on three of the projects have already been completed, but w ...

India's Himacal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (HPPCL) has announced plans to commission more than 1,000 MW-worth of hydropower projects in the next three years, Asian news sources have reported. The announcement comes after Germany announced a US$268.4 million loan for HPPCL's 191-MW Thana Plaun hydroelectric plant earlier this month via its development bank, Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW), as par ...

The most powerful generator-turbine unit ever built by Voith has entered service in the Xiluodu hydropower plant on the Jinsha River in China. After a successful 72-hour test run, Voith handed over the first of a total of three machines to the customer, China Three Gorges Corporation. With 784MW, the output of the generator-turbine unit in Xiluodu is higher than that of the world's largest hydropower plants ...

The SET-listed Ch. Karnchang Plc (CK), Thailand’s third-largest contractor by market value, has signed a contract with the Laotian government to develop the 20-billion-baht Nam Bak hydroelectric power plant. Construction costs are estimated at 17 billion baht, said chief executive Plew Trivisvavet in a statement. ‘‘We are working full-speed on finalising the power purchase agreement and construction contrac ...