The government has already signed joint venture agreements with foreign companies to build four hydropower projects and memoranda of understanding for another 19, the ministry said, adding that nine other projects were on the table. Asia World Company has been given permission to build four hydropower projects with China Power Investment. These are the Ayeyawady Myitsone, Chee Phwe, Laiza and Kunlon dams, w ...

The first project is Fuji Hydro, a joint venture company of Voith Hydro and Fuji Electric Co. based in Japan. Voith has been awarded a contract to supply major electro-mechanical equipment for the Rajamandala Hydroelectric Power Project in Indonesia. The run-of-river hydropower plant will have a capacity of 46.6 MW and is located in the Rajamandala on Citarum basin, in the Cianjur Regency, West Java Provinc ...

Alstom has secured a contract from the state-run Vietnamese power giant to supply electromechanical equipment, including a 75 MW turbine, to the extension project of a hydropower plant in southern Vietnam, the French firm announced Tuesday. Vietnam Electricity, commonly known as EVN, has awarded a contract worth around €13 million (US$16.83 million) to Alstom for the design, manufacturing, testing, installi ...

Alstom has been awarded a contract worth around €13 million1 from Electricity of Vietnam2 (EVN) for the extension project of the Thac Mo 75 MW hydropower plant in Vietnam. The aim of this project is to increase peak load capacity to support the existing 150 MW Thac Mo power station with 75MW of additional power. Alstom’s scope of the contract includes design, manufacturing, testing, supply, erection and com ...

Allen & Overy has advised Nam Ngiep 1 Power Company, a consortium formed by Japan’s Kansai power, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) and the Lao Holding State Enterprise, on a $916 million hydropower project on Laos’ Nam Ngiep river. Clifford Chance advised the lenders on the deal, which included the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB ...

Moreover, 23 firms including cronies’ companies were granted hydropower projects and they were also allowed to generate and distribute power in 84 townships across the nation. The tycoons also received the green light to build natural gas power stations. Some cronies are eyeing coal power plant projects that may be harmful to local people and environment. The projects caused worries among the locals who mig ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved funding worth $217 million for a 290MW hydropower project in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The bulk of the electricity generated by Nam Ngiep 1 will be delivered to neighbouring Thailand, which relies heavily on natural gas. The project is expected to cut around 500,000 tons of carbon emissions in Thailand every year. The Lao PDR has a hydropow ...

Xylem Inc. (NYSE:XYL), a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world's most challenging water issues, announced today that it has won a contract worth U.S. $19.6 million to provide custom-made Flygt pumps for the Xayaburi run-of-river hydropower dam. The dam is located on the Mekong River in the town of Xayaburi, 80 kilometers south of Luang Prabang in Laos. The construction of th ...

Presse-Mitteilung Voith is to modernize one of the generators at one of the most important pumped storage power plants in Germany. The recently awarded contract from E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH involves the replacement, assembly and commissioning of the stator and rotor of machine 6 at the Waldeck 2 pumped storage power plant in North Hesse, Germany. As well as extend- ing the life time, the project will also ensu ...

Small hydropower projects have the potential to bring electricity to millions of people now living off the grid. But experts warn that planners must carefully consider the cumulative effects of constructing too many small dams in a single watershed. The northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, nestled in the Himalayas, is home to a population of 10 million people, mostly farmers. Many are among the 400 million ...