The Korea Midland Power Co. (KOMIPO), has an ambitious strategy for the next decade, seeking to emerge as a global brand for power generation by 2020. KOMIPO, is one of six power generation subsidiaries of the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. (as explained in the recent South Korea edition of PI Magazine Asia). Their oversees ventures were consolidated when they launched the first unit of a coal-fired t ...

Origin Energy Limited yesterday released the Quarterly Production Report for its Exploration and Production business for the quarter to 31 December 2012, reporting production of 29 petajoules equivalent (PJe) and sales revenues of $200 million. When compared to the same quarter in 2011, production was 1 per cent higher as increased output from the Otway Basin more than offset the suspension of gas operation ...

Taiwan Cogeneration Corp yesterday said three of the company’s power-generation subsidiaries had settled legal disputes with state-run Taiwan Power Co. Taiwan Cogeneration said in a statement to the Taiwan Stock Exchange that three independent power producers (IPPs) under its purview had reach new agreements with Taipower over the terms of electricity purchase contracts. Wu said the IPPs had reached new pac ...

A contract worth approximately €90 million Eastern Power and Electric Co. Ltd (EPEC) has signed a 10-year operations and maintenance (O&M) contract with Alstom for its Bang Bo power plant, located at Khlong Daan, Bang Bo Samut Prakan Province, Thailand. This contract is an extension to the existing O&M contract which expires at the end of March 2013. As part of this contract, Alstom will station per ...

Power Company of Karnataka Limited (PCKL), a wholly-owned company of the government of Karnataka, will shortly issue a request for proposal (RFP) documents to 22 bidders qualified for its proposed 1,320 Mw Gulbarga coal-based super-critical thermal power project. The project is proposed under the Case-2 bidding framework as per the competitive bidding guidelines. The cost of the project is estimated at Rs 7 ...

State energy company Pertamina and state electricity company Perusahaan Listrik Negara signed a major gas sale agreement on Monday, in a plan to help boost development of local economies and help diversify supply for the Indonesian power market. Pertamina will regasify liquefied natural gas at the Arun plant in Aceh, and PLN will supply 1 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas a year, or 105 million s ...

General Electric (GE) Indonesia, the local arm of the US-based company, is bringing renewable energy technologies to the country to gear up its business in the lucrative Indonesian power market, company executives said last week. Business in the energy sector was expected to grow exponentially as the government stepped up projects in the sector. “The energy sector will be the main player of this year and we ...

Hitachi Ltd have revealed that it will build two steam turbine generators for a supercritical pressure thermal power plant to be built in India. Hitachi, which is trying to boost its presence in India, said it has received orders for the generators from India's BGR Energy Systems Ltd. and National Thermal Power Corp. for the envisioned 800-megawatt coal-fired thermal power plant. The move comes as India pla ...

Reliance Power Ltd said third quarter profit, including that of its units, rose 30% as the company boosted power production at its Rosa plant in Uttar Pradesh. Net profit rose to Rs 266 crore in the three months ended 31 December from Rs 204 crore in the year earlier, the company said. Total income more than doubled to Rs 1,586 crore from Rs 674 crore. Power production at its 1,200 megawatts (MW) Rosa plant ...

Power plant and highway construction specialist Mudajaya Group Bhd will start developing phase one of its US$750 million (RM2.3 billion) coal-fired power plant project in Myanmar in the second half of next year. It is understood that the special purpose vehicle (SPV) set up by Mudajaya and IJM Corp Bhd co-founder Datuk Koon Yew Yin will build the plant over several phases. Phase one will supply up to 500 me ...