The Ministry of Electrical Power have officially opened the 120 megawatts natural gas power plant that was constructed with help from Thailand. The plant is constructed with BOT system between Ministry of Electrical Power and Toyo Thai Power Myanmar Co., Ltd., Khin Maung Soe, said the Minister of Electrical Power. According to the contract, the ministry will have seven per cent of the 120 megawatts for free ...

The power sector awaits a big boost, as Japan is likely to provide about US$ 3.7 billion in the form of a soft loan for setting up a 1200-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Cox's Bazar, officials said. If approved, it will be the biggest ever financial support from Japan for a single project. "We discussed the issue with a Japanese team in Dhaka last week. They assured us of providing the financial sup ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is to begin the installation of passive autocatalytic recombiners (PARs) in reactor buildings at two of the seven units at its Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant. The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF) said Tepco would install the PARs at units 1 and 7, and that work is expected to be completed by the end of June 2013. Tepco plans to install 50 PARs at Unit 1 and 5 ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has completed the final shipment of turbine rotors for the first AP1000 nuclear power plants under construction in China. The Japanese engineering company held a ceremony at its Takasago Machinery Works to mark the completion of the order for turbine rotors for the four reactors under construction at Sanmen and Haiyang. The company secured the order jointly with China's Har ...

Corrison in a near-new high-voltage power transformer bought by Delta from Indonesia has been linked to a failure that caused a power surge across Dunedin. Delta chief executive Grady Cameron confirmed corrosion had been found inside one of two new high-voltage transformers - each costing $500,000 - installed at the city's ''crucial'' Halfway Bush substation in December. Both transformers were bought from I ...

China's Sinopec Group, Asia's largest oil refiner, said on Thursday it agreed to sell a stake of 30 percent in an oil and gas block in Myanmar to Taiwan's CPC Corp, one of a series of deals between state-owned energy giants and the Taiwan firm. Sinopec, the parent of Hong Kong-listed Sinopec Corp , gave no financial details of the transaction of block D, which is awaiting approval from regulators, nor did i ...

Despite numerous regulations supposed to speed up infrastructure development, Indonesia is still besieged with countless impediments to a sufficient supply of electricity. Demands consistently outpaces capacities. Blackouts continue across the country on a regular basis, with a significant one effecting virtually the whole of Jakarta at the beginning of April. State power company PT Perusahaan Listrik Negar ...

Bangladesh on Saturday signed its biggest ever joint venture agreement with India involving investment $1.6 billion for 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant which is expected to be operational in the next five years. "This will be the largest investment Bangladesh ever had ... this will be cheapest source of energy (after hydropower) to accelerate the country s economic growth," Prime Minister's energy affairs a ...

Malaysia's Energy Commission (EC) has selected five companies to tender for the 2,000MW Project 3B coal-fired power plant. The proposed plant will be developed at the respective consortia's site at an estimated cost of MYR12bn ($3bn). The EC received seven request for qualification submissions on 11 March for Project 3B. The power plant will be constructed on a new site in the peninsula and commissioned in ...

Korea Electric Power Corp., an energy firm owned by the South Korean government, is currently looking at potential sites in Luzon where it can put up a new power facility. According to Kepco Philippines president and CEO Kyu-Beng Hwang, the company plans to conduct a study that will look into the viability of its proposed power project as soon as it has chosen a site. They are hoping to conduct the feasibil ...