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State Grid Predict Summer Power Demand Increase

The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the country's biggest power distributor, said Saturday that electricity demand is expected to increase 8.4% year on year this summer in the regions it covers. The growth is 5.3 percentage points higher than that of last summer, said the company, which supplies power to 80% of China's territory. Seven provincial-level grids will see power demands grow by over 10%, ...

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Do We Need Widespread Power Grids?

In typical networking businesses – telephone, internet, electricity – as networks expand out from population clusters and into rural areas, their economics deteriorate geometrically. Investments are difficult to justify, and therefore internet access, cellular coverage, and electricity availability are poor, or non-existent, in rural markets. For equity reasons, and because these services are seen as “publi ...

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Despite Adding Capacity, EVN is Still Buying Chinese Electricity

EVN has predicted that the additional charge is believed to reach 384 million kwh a day in June. The biggest capacity hovers around 19,600-19,900 MW. Since it is now the dry season, EVN plans to prioritize to use the electricity to be churned out by coal run and gas turbine run thermopower plants. The electricity mobilization from the plants would be reduced when floods appear which would allow higher level ...

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ABB Investors Seek Frugal CEO to Solve $10 Billion Puzzle

ABB Ltd. investors, reeling from Chief Executive Officer Joe Hogan’s announcement last month to step down, want a more frugally-minded replacement to integrate the $10 billion worth of U.S. acquisitions he left behind. Hogan’s three-year spending spree added motors and low-voltage gear to the world’s biggest supplier of power grids. While the deals boosted profitability and helped ABB’s shares to outperform ...

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EGAT to Import Power from China

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) will buy electricity from China to ensure the country's power security. The Thai utility authority last week signed an MoU with China Southern Power Grid Co (CSG), the state-owned power transmission and distribution company, to supply electricity from hydroelectric power plants to Thailand. The pact was signed after Thailand suffered supply disruptions ...

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Ambitious Advisory Panel Suggests Transnational Power Beltway

In an ambitious move, a high-level advisory panel on power sector has suggested setting up a transnational electricity transmission network that will connect India with various fuel resource rich nations including Iran and Tajikistan. The beltway, as mooted by the panel, could see the Indian power grid getting connected with the Middle East, South, South East Asia and parts of Central Asia. "The Power Beltw ...

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Alstom T&D discuss exciting opportunity in Myanmar grid after successful delivery with PGCIL

Alstom T&D India today said it has delivered a Rs 105 crore transmission project in Myanmar for Power Grid Corp. "Alstom T&D India has concluded the successful delivery of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd's (PGCIL) 230 kV transmission project, worth around Rs 105 crore in Myanmar," the company said in a statement here. The contract covered the supply of a turnkey substation for the 230 kV transmi ...

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India-Bangladesh transmission network to face significant delays

Delays on either side of the Indo-Bangla border in laying transmission facilities have cast a shadow on the timely launch of power trade between the two countries. India is scheduled to supply up to 500 MW of electricity, through long-term agreements, to the neighbouring country via the international border at Baharampur in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. Of the total, 250 MW will be supplied by state- ...

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LSIS are to play a big role in the technology license and support for the South Korean KAPES HVDC JV

LSIS signed an agreement in Samseong-dong, Seoul for the technology license and support for HVDC projects and was selected as a manufacturer with the joint venture KEPCO-ALSTOM Power Electronics Systems (KAPES) set up by Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and French power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure company Alstom. KAPES was established at the end of 2012 to secure HVDC tech ...

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Commission Questions High Energy Profits in Australia

The door has been opened to full deregulation of electricity prices in NSW after a report found there was a high degree of competition, with more than 60 per cent of households on unregulated contracts. Even so, Victoria's Essential Services Commission has warned it is concerned about signs of a lack of competition in the state, which is supposedly one of the most competitive energy markets in the world. Th ...

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