The Department of Energy is pushing for the development of an electricity reserve market in the Philippines, which the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) can tap to avoid power shortages such as the May 8 and July 3 Luzon-wide blackouts. NGCP operates the country’s power transmission highway. Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla said a frequency imbalance in the country’s power grids – Luzon, ...

Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) will purchase electricity from biomass power projects at the price of VND1,170 per kWh or 5.6 U.S. cents exclusive of VAT and is adjusted based on foreign exchange rate. This is the content of the fourth draft on the supporting mechanism for biomass power projects in Vietnam that the Ministry of Industry and Trade put up for public comments on Tuesday. The price, which is pro ...

A group of four engineers from South Korea's state-run power company was set to visit Kaesong Tuesday, a company official said, one day before Seoul and Pyongyang hold talks on normalizing a joint industrial complex in the North Korean city. The engineers will check the power supply system in Kaesong, which has mostly been shut down since the North suspended the operation of the Kaesong complex in late Apri ...

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) is planning to invest 60 billion baht (US$1.92 million) to install power transmission cables to supply more electricity from the central to southern regions and to prevent blackouts. It also plans to import coal to feed its power plant in Lampang province in the North. EGAT governor Sutat Patmasiriwat said he will seek approval from the EGAT board to i ...

ABB Ltd recently received an order from Rio Tinto plc to upgrade an existing power substation at the Cape Lambert port in Western Australia's Pilbara region. The order, booked in the first quarter, is worth approximately $27 million and is expected to be completed by early 2014. The main objective of the contract is to upgrade and increase port power supply to catch up with the incremental exports from Pilb ...

The power supply was badly affected in the core Malwa region on Saturday afternoon following the breakdown of all four working units of Guru Hargobind Thermal Power Plant (GHGTPP), Lehra Mohabbat, and two units of Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Power Plant (GNDTPP), Bathinda, following a communication gap between different offices of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL). Bathinda, Mansa and Muktsar di ...

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Transgrid has announced it is reviewing its planned Dumaresq to Lismore line upgrade. The state owned corporation is responsible for the electricity transmission network in NSW and was planning a $250 million upgrade to the poles and wires to cater for future population growth. But Transgrid's general manager of network planning and performance, Stephen Clark, said their latest data suggests the project wou ...

Indian energy giant Adani Group is planning to build a $300 million electricity transmission mine to its proposed mine in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland. Despite growing speculation some of the Galilee mines, including Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal, may not proceed because of the falling coal price, Adani has flagged plans to build a 250-kilometre high-voltage line from Powerlink's Strathmore substat ...

State-run Taiwan Power Co is considering purchasing natural gas and building a receiving station in Taiwan in a bid to cut energy costs, a top company official said yesterday. Taipower president Chu Wen-chen said the company might stop purchasing energy through state-run oil refiner CPC Corp, Taiwan, as the development of shale gas in the US has contributed to lowering the price of natural gas. Taipower’s l ...