Indonesia will see a massive increase in power supply this year thanks to 19 coal-fired power plants, with a combined operational capacity of 3,620 megawatts (MW). This year’s power supply, if materialized, will be the biggest since the 1998 financial crisis, according to the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry. The plants are part of the delayed first phase of the 10,000 MW program, launched in 2006, to ...

Iran is set to inaugurate two combined cycle power plants with the production capacity of 648 megawatts in the central Iranian province of Semnan. Mohammad Reza Qalambor, the projects’ manager, said Shahid Bastami power plant in the city of Shahrood and Quds power plant in the city of Semnan would be inaugurated later on Tuesday. Qalambor noted that the project comprises four 162-megawatt units, adding that ...

Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation ( GMDC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Korea's KEPCO Plant Services and Engineering Company Limited for long-term operation & maintenance of GMDC's Akrimota Thermal Power Station. The MoU is to the tune of Rs 500 crore for long-term operation and maintenance contract for 250-megawatt Akrimota Thermal Power Station, a government official ...

The Ministry of Economic Affairs warned that electricity prices could soar by 40 percent if the country abandoned nuclear power as its major electricity source. If the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District is prevented from becoming operational, while the first and second nuclear power plants are retired, state-run Taiwan Power Co would have to increase electricity rates sharply ...

The Vietnam Development Bank (VDB) and Vietnam Electricity (EVN) reached an agreement on a major loan on January 7th in Hanoi Accordingly VDB will provide credit of VND 2,500 billion for EVN to implement two power projects, namely Vinh Tan 2 Thermo-Power Plant and Duyen Hai 1 Thermo-Power Plant. The two power projects will have total generation capacity of 2,400 MW, and cost VND 52,722 billion. According to ...

Power companies in Vietnam all have reported big profits for 2012, up by 1.5-4 times in comparison with the last year. Meanwhile, the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) expects the profit of VND 3.5-4 trillion. Profits up to 400 percent The third quarter finance reports of power companies belonging to EVN and the companies where EVN holds the controlling stakes showed that they made fat profits in 2012 thanks to ...

The International Hydropower Association and the China Society for Hydropower Engineering (CSHE) have announced a collaboration that will lead to the establishment of an IHA National Office in China. IHA said CHSE is China's leading hydropower organization, with 40,000 individual members, 203 corporate members and 22 provincial hydroelectric engineering societies. CHSE will work to promote the IHA's Hydropo ...

Over 600 million people lost power in India last summer, setting a modern record for the number of people affected by a blackout. Well before that, though, India’s government was grappling with growing pressure to increase the dependability of its electricity service — for the growing numbers who have intermittent power and the 400 million who live without it. As a solution, the government proposed construc ...

The Abu Dhabi National Energy Company on Sunday said it has acquired a minority interest in the developer of a 100 megawatt hydroelectric plant in northern India, with plans to fully acquire the firm at a later date. The purchase is the latest in a string of acquisitions by the firm, which is 75 percent owned by the Abu Dhabi government. TAQA said in a statement it had acquired an interest in Himachal Soran ...

A recently approved plan to increase the capacity of Nepal's Upper Trishula 3A hydropower project from has not come without controversy, according to sources. The Upper Trishula 3A, part of Nepal's plan to develop 10,000 MW of hydropower by the end of the decade, is being constructed as a 60 MW hydroelectric project on the Trishuli River. A decision approved at a meeting of Nepal's Council of Ministers earl ...