Japan’s Electric Power Development Co, Itochu Corp and Indonesia’s PT Adaro Energy further delayed the schedule for securing financing for their $4 billion coal-fired power plant in Indonesia. The group pushed back the deadline by a year to October 2014 after it faced delays acquiring land, Junichiro Hoshino, a Tokyo-based spokesman at Electric Power Development, or J-Power, said in a phone interview. They ...

Thailand might lose competitiveness to Malaysia in terms of the cost of electricity if it fails to increase the proportion of coal-fired power plants, according to an official with the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand. Tatree Riewcharoen, director of Egat's corporate communications division, said Malaysia had four power plants using clean coal technology. They are the Manjung plant with 2,100-me ...

ASIA Pacific Energy Resources Ventures Inc., (Apervi), a Cebu-based coal trading and mining equipment distribution company, is investing P14 billion to build a 150-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental. Apervi president Ceasar Lao-as announced that its subsidiary North Negros Energy Power Corp. (NNEPC) is developing a coal-fired power plant in the 10-hectare reclamation site ...

Thai-based Admin Power & Utility Co Ltd has submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Electric Power to build a 60 megawatt power plant in Dawei district that runs on natural gas from Zawtika gas project, officials from the company said. Whilst the construction period for the 500 MW plant will take some time, the 60 megawatt power plant will be built within eight months to supply electricity to Dawei area ...

Four companies yesterday submitted their financial offers for a 360-megawatt gas-fired power project in Bheramara amid allegation that the bidding authorities were favouring one bidder. When Japanese companies Sumitomo, Marubeni, and Mitsui with its Korean partner Posco, and Spanish firm Duro Felguera submitted their bids yesterday afternoon, it turned out that Marubeni had not submitted its $6-million bid ...

Though the Gas Authority of India (GAIL) officials say that the laying of pipelines to the Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Plant, the NTPC, Kayamkulam, for supplying LNG, will be given priority, the ground situation looks a little dicey at the moment. For one, the NTPC is yet to sign a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Besides, mounting protest from the fishermen c ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from Daewoo International Corporation (DWIC) of Korea for two sets of an M701F4 gas turbine and generator to be installed in two gas turbine combined-cycle (GTCC) power generation plants which State Joint Stock Company Uzbekenergo (SJSC Uzbekenergo) is constructing at the existing Talimarjan Thermal Power Plant (TPP). The engineering, procurement ...

Private power companies have said the two proposed ultra mega power projects in Odisha and Tamil Nadu, likely to be auctioned by the government within this month, were not ready for bidding as many critical clearances were pending. The process of acquiring private land for one of the proposed projects at Bedhabahal in Odisha has to be started afresh as a new land acquisition act has come in place, Associati ...

Two of Indonesia's biggest miners are building power stations to reignite coal demand and counter a drop in global prices that has squeezed industry-wide profit margins to their slimmest in a decade and dulled the appeal of exports to top consumer China. Privately owned PT Adaro Energy, Indonesia's second biggest coal miner by revenue, and the government-run PT Bukit Asam are taking the lead in trying to bu ...

It is crucial for all operators of CCGT power plants to implement and establish a full life operations and maintenance (O&M) plan for their gas turbine and balance of plant. In a time of commercial and operational pressure, there must be a real focus on delivering the most cost-effective and flexible operations as possible. The inaugural Asia-Pacific O&M and Lifecycle Management for CCGT Power Plant ...