Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has shipped 13 sets of power generation systems operated by diesel engine to the Yangon City Electricity Supply Board (YESB) of Myanmar. The generators are being provided as part of emergency grant aid from the Japanese government in response to Myanmar's current power crisis. The event marks the first large-scale aid of its kind provided by Japan to Myanmar since the ...

An international consortium led by state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) clinched a US$2.3 billion deal to build a thermal power plant in Vietnam, KEPCO said Thursday. Under a build, operation and transfer deal, the consortium will build the coal power plant with a generation capacity of 1.2 million kilowatts by 2018 and operate the plant for the next 25 years before it is transferred to the Vietname ...

Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. on Thursday said it is investing up P1.5 billion for Phase 2 of its South Luzon Therma Energy Corporation coal project in Batangas. With joint venture partner AC Energy Holdings Inc. a Ayala Corporation subsidiary, Trans-Asia is now building the first unit of the coal project, comprising a 135-MW circulating fluidized bed thermal power plant due for completion by ...

A venture of Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) is evaluating the acquisition of units set up jointly by BGR Energy Systems Ltd and Hitachi Power Europe GmbH, in what could be the harbinger of consolidation in the Indian power generation equipment manufacturing sector, according to two people aware of the development.   The BGR-Hitachi joint ventures (JVs)—one mak ...

After completing land acquisition process, civil works for the proposed Super Thermal Power Plant (STPP) of NTPC at Darlipali in Sundargarh district are likely to be kicked off from Tuesday. The district administration has committed to hand over physical possession of 80 per cent of the required land by Monday. The STPP envisages to set up four units, each of 800 MW capacity at Darlipali of Lefripara block. ...

The Central Electricity Authority has recommended setting up of Bihar's first 4,000 MW ultra mega power project at Kakwara in Banka district, saying that there are no environmental issues related to the chosen site. The decision to zero-in on Kakwara after CEA, the apex planning body for the country's power sector, came after field visits recently to two potential sites for a UMPP -Kakwara and Rajouli in Na ...

State-controlled coal miner Bukit Asam has secured a 10-year contract to supply coal for Indonesia Power, a subsidiary of state utility firm Perusahaan Listrik Negara. Bukit Asam agreed to supply 51.8 million metric tons of coal in total, equal to between 5 million and 6 million tons of coal a year, for the Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Merak, Banten. Eight units operate at the Suralaya compound with a ...

Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell have expressed interest in participating in natural-gas distribution in Thailand, following the regulator's plan to open up the industry. Energy Regulatory Commission member Pallapa Ruangrong yesterday said both foreign companies had said they were interested in exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the Kingdom. Speaking at the regulator's "Interconnectivity & Cross-Bord ...

State utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) has on Wednesday signed a contract with PT Rekadaya Elektrika for the construction of a coal-fired power plant  in Timika, Papua, with capacity of 4x7 megawatts (MW). The Timika plant will be supplied with turbines produced by PT Siemens Industrial Power based in Bandung, West Java. The contruction of first unit of  the Timika plant will take 19 months, to fi ...

Though the competitive power market has been in operation in Vietnam for some eight months, in practice EVN still holds a monopoly over the market. The current market has 45 power plants, a number that may increase to 67 in the future. The sole buyer of the electricity they produce is Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN), which is also a power trading company. Many people expressed concern that expanding the mar ...