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Sri Lanka award $12 Million contract for Renewable Energy

 25 January 2021  The Sri Lankan government has awarded a contract to a Chinese based joint venture, to install a hybrid renewable energy system in three islands of the coast of Jaffna, at a cost of USD $12 million. The contract forms a part of the Supporting Electricity Supply Reliability Improvement Project, which is being implemented by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) but is directly funded ...

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Time to tap KP’s 30,000 MW hydropower potential for sustainable economic, industrial growth

Naturally blessed with enormous hydropower resources, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a unique province where 30,000 Megawatt (MW) of hydropower potential has been identified that could easily meet the energy demands of domestic, agriculture and industrial sectors besides making Pakistan energy surplus. Out of 30,000 MW hydropower potential identified by the KP Energy Department, only 6,000 MW (33,000 Gigawatt h ...

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Phou Ngoy hydropower plant to be developed in Laos

Korea Western Power along with Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction have signed a memorandum of understanding for a partnership in the development of the 728MW Phou Ngoy hydropower plant on the Mekong River in Laos. Charoen Energy and Water Asia were also involved in the earlier agreement with the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to develop Phou Ngoy and brought in Korea Western Power as a partner. Ko ...

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Doosan, Korea Western Power to develop hydropower plant in Laos

Mekong River to be harnessed for 728MW Phou Ngoy facility in southern province of Champasak Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has signed a memorandum of understanding with Korea Western Power to partner in developing the 728MW Phou Ngoy hydropower plant on the Mekong River in Laos. Thai developer Charoen Energy and Water Asia signed the original agreement with the Lao People's Democratic Repub ...

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Japan’s Gov to run on 30% Renewable Power Next Year

TOKYO -- Japan's government facilities will switch to renewable sources for 30% of their energy supply starting in fiscal 2021, leading Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's push for the country to become carbon neutral by 2050. All national government ministries and agencies will be required to reevaluate their electricity supply for the year through March 2022 and beyond under the plan to be announced Thursday ...

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China to build historic Yarlung Zangbo River hydropower project in Tibet

China will build a hydropower project on the Yarlung Zangbo River, one of the major waters in Asia that also passes through India and Bangladesh, and the head of the involved company said that the project could serve to maintain water resources and domestic security. China will "implement hydropower exploitation in the downstream of the Yarlung Zangbo River," and this was clearly put forward in the proposal ...

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China to build major dam on Brahmaputra river in Tibet

China will build a major hydropower project on Brahmaputra river in Tibet and a proposal for this has been clearly put forward in the 14th Five-Year Plan to be implemented from next year, the official media on Sunday quoted the head of a Chinese company tasked to build the dam as saying. Chairman of the Power Construction Corp of China, said China will "implement hydropower exploitation in the downstream of ...

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How hydropower dams can help ASEAN fight climate change

Dams are infrastructures built to control river flow and store large amounts of water in artificial lakes or reservoirs.  They are used not only for agricultural water supply and flood control, but also to produce electricity. The water released from dams flows through turbines, whose mechanical energy is converted into electricity by a generator.  Since the construction of the first dams in the l ...

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Green Power Potential of Pakistan

Author: Kashif Imran, USPCAS-E NUST While Pakistan’s share of renewable energy stands at a mere 6 per cent of installed capacity, the government has set ambitious targets to increase the share of electricity generated by alternative and renewable sources to 20 per cent by 2025 and 30 per cent by 2030. But due to the intermittent nature of renewables and Pakistan’s not-so-‘smart’ transmission and distributio ...

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Eco Wave Power sign 50MW Vietnam Project

Eco Wave Power has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with MSmart Future Technology to develop a 50MW wave energy project in Vietnam. The collaboration between the parties will be executed in milestones, said Eco. In the first phase, the Eco Wave Power engineering team will perform an in-depth feasibility study, at the selected site in Vietnam. The study will include the installation of a wave measu ...

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