Chinese investors are getting active in Vietnam’s power sector investment. For example, the Vinh Tan 1 build-operate-transfer (BOT) coal-fired thermal power plant, based in southern Binh Thuan province with 1,200 megawatt annual capacity, is the first Vietnam-based power project with Chinese businesses acting as the project key investors. China Southern Power Grid Company Limited (CSG) and China Power Inter ...

The government of Tajikistan and the World Bank have been the two main driving forces behind the implementation of the Central Asia South Asia power export project widely known by its acronym CASA1000. This project envisions erecting thousands of kilometres of high-voltage electricity transmission lines at the cost of around US$1 billion. Once completed, the project will make it possible for the export of a ...

An electricity outage that blacked out large swathes of the Philippines' main island of Luzon for up to eight hours last month has highlighted worries about a potential power crisis that could undermine Asia's fastest-growing economy. Predictions that electricity demand will outstrip government forecasts have raised fears over the impact on the expansion of industries such as call centres, tourism and gamin ...

Indonesia and Malaysia would cooperate to develop a coal-fired power plant in Sumatra to meet the needs of electricity in the two countries. "The cooperation agreement was signed by the two countries` electricity companies last year," Energy Minister Jero Wacik said after opening an ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting here on Monday. The plant would have a capacity of 2,000 MW, 1,000 of which would be used to me ...

Siemens Energy has developed a new steam turbine for geothermal power plants to serve the power range up to 120 MW. The SST-500 GEO follows the SST-400 GEO turbine, which was introduced in the autumn of 2011. The SST-500 GEO is a single-casing, double-flow condensing turbine. As a derivative of the SST-500 and SST-600 turbine families, it combines the proven casing and auxiliaries of the Siemens SST-500 and ...

Gulf Energy Development Co was the only winner for Thailand's third round of Independent Power Producer (IPP) bidding, with combined capacity of 5,000 megawatts. A source who asked not to be named said Gulf was shortlisted based on technical criteria two weeks ago and named the sole winner in terms of proposed electricity tariffs last week. Five bidders won in the first round and three in the second round. ...

India has decided to allow some power companies to pass on the costs of foreign coal to customers, a minister said on Friday, in a move likely to boost imports and investment in power generation but bring higher prices. The policy will apply only to power stations that rely principally on domestic coal and buy imports to make up for local shortfalls, however. Tata Power Co, one of the country's best known u ...

Pakistan has asked the Manila-based Asian Development Bank to help finance two coal-fired power units at the Jamshoro thermal power station in Sindh, a senior official of Pakistan's Water and Power Development Authority revealed this week. Zafar Umar Farooqi, chief engineer at the authority, said Pakistan had initially sought a $433 million ADB loan for one 600-megawatt unit but the bank has now been asked ...

Soonchai Kumnoonsate, Deputy Governor for power plants at the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat), has been selected by a committee to become the new Governor of the organisation. The selection committee, chaired by Deputy Permanent Secretary for energy Kurujit Nakornthap, on Wednesday reported the result to Egat's board, saying that Mr Soonchai had the highest assessment score of the three ...

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) says that a new coal-fired power plant in Dawei will benefit both Thailand and Myanmar. Confirming mutual benefit for Thailand and Myanmar from the new coal-fired power plant, EGAT Governor Sutat Patmasiriwat acknowledged on Tuesday that his agency has studied the new power plant project in Myanmar's planned Dawei industrial estate zone and found that ...