Papua New Guinea plans to buy electricity from Indonesia`s province of Papua to cover shortage in power supply in PNG province of Vanimo across the border. Vanimo will buy 2 megawatts of electricity from a power plant to be built with a capacity of 2x10 MW in Papua, Indonesian Consul in Vanimo, Jahar Gultom said. “The two countries, PNG and Indonesia have signed a cooperation agreement on the purchase of po ...

Gopal Saxena, the chief executive of a power distribution company run by Reliance Infrastructure Ltd, which is controlled by Indian billionaire Anil Ambani, faces a tough choice. He could break a mandate to supply around-the-clock electricity to 1.8 million customers in south and west Delhi, or he could wait for two power utilities to make good on threats to cut off supplies to his company unless they are p ...

Siemens Ltd. has won two contracts aggregating to Rs.144 crore from the Rural Electrification Board, Bangladesh, to construct 38 new 33.11kV substations. The projects are funded by Japan Bank for International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and are to be delivered on a turnkey basis. The substations would be located in the Rajshahi and Barisal zones in western Bangladesh. The projects involve installing new and ...

Creating a high-tech power grid isn’t just about information and communications technology, data-crunching software and other such digital technologies. Sometimes the innovations can be hidden inside the power lines themselves. CTC Global is hoping that its new partnership with one of China’s biggest grid players will help push its own transmission technology into what’s set to become the world’s biggest po ...

India plans to spend 6 billion euros ($7.9 billion) to build an electricity grid to evacuate power from wind and solar plants that have more than doubled in capacity in the last five years. The grid will be built across seven states over the next five to six years, Ratan P. Watal, secretary at the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, said in New Delhi. The project will receive 250 million euros “soon” from ...

Armed with experience of supplying water in regions of Delhi, infrastructure development company, SPMLInfra Ltd, has bagged the power distribution franchisee licence for Bihar's Bhagalpur region. This is one of the first regions inBihar that the state government has decided to hand over to private companies for a 15-year period. Bihar is plagued with high distribution losses due to poor conditions of transf ...

Kansai Electric Power Co. said it has lost over 1,000 large-lot customers, such as companies and local governments, since raising the electricity rate for businesses in April. The number of clients that canceled large-lot contracts came to 1,050 between April 1 and July 1 alone, a massive increase from the 195 cancellations in the whole of fiscal 2011 and just 61 in fiscal 2012. So far, these departures are ...

Tapping into enormous Nepal’s enormous hydropower potential just got a boost with the government today accepting a $37 million World Bank loan for a power transmission and trade project with India. Finance Minister Shanker Prasad Koirala will sign the loan agreement with the Bank soon, government spokesperson Nepal Madhav Poudel said after the cabinet nod. The India-Nepal Electricity Transmission and Trade ...

 NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN), the state-run generation utility NTPC's power trading arm, is expected to switch on electricity supply to Bangladesh from September, energizing bilateral economic ties. Bangladesh energy ministry officials on Wednesday handed over documents guaranteeing payment for the power to be purchased to NVVN chief executive N K Sharma in Dhaka. This paves the way for beginning of pow ...

While most Indian states suffer from acute power shortage, Himachal Pradesh, strangely, is facing an uphill task in disposing of its surplus electricity in the country's two operational power bourses. The reason: a majority of state electricity boards are cash-strapped and prefer to resort to outages, euphemestically called load shedding, than buying electricity to meet the peak demands. "Most of the electr ...