The massive power outage that struck in Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnam’s southern provinces Wednesday was caused by the cargo of a crane truck that struck a main cable. The incident, which unleashed chaos in streets, schools, hospitals and businesses throughout HCMC, took place at around 2 p.m. and the power was not resumed for several hours, the country’s power monopoly Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) said in a ...

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) on Wednesday apologised for the massive power blackout in 14 southern provinces on Tuesday night and explained how it happened. “Egat would like to apologise to the people for this incident. We have ordered an inspection of all electric power transmission lines to the South to prevent a repeat of it,” Egat governor Suthat Patmasiriwat told the media. M ...

Haryana is challenging in court a decision by the power regulator to allow utility Adani Power Ltd to raise tariffs, dealing a potential blow to a key sector struggling with chronic losses and erratic fuel supplies. The case filed by Haryana underscores the ability of local politics to derail a regulator decision that was hailed by power companies as a step toward ending electricity shortages that sap the c ...

The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the country's largest energy distributor, announced on Friday that it has signed an agreement with Singapore Power Limited to buy partial stakes in the latter's two Australian assets. Under the deal, which was signed here on Thursday, the SGCC will purchase a 60-percent stake in SPI (Australia) Assets Pty Limited (SPIAA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Pow ...

Connection of Huawei and ZTE, telecom equipment vendors from China, with a Chinese Army project called PLA-863 worries Indian government. The Army connection has prompted the National Security Council (NSC) Secretariat to warn against Chinese telecom equipment makers, especially Huawei and ZTE. NSC wants the Indian government to take steps to overhaul its domestic telecom manufacturing capabilities to check ...

Power generation company NTPC has denied the allegations of power discoms in Delhi that there is a shortfall in supply on account of low generation at its plants. On Friday, NTPC officials said the snags that were reported from Badarpur Thermal Power Plant and Dadri-II have been rectified and the power production is far from being in deficit. The power producer said it has been generating adequate quantum o ...

The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday said the Japanese government had come forward to fund the upcoming power sector infrastructure in the state to the tune of Rs 7,000 crore. These will be taken up by the subsidiaries of the ailing Tamil Nadu State Electricity Board (TNEB). Apart from this major development, the state announced its intent to invest up to Rs 7,000 crore in developing a new hydro-electric p ...

Apex electricity regulator the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) on Thursday asked Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO), a subsidiary of Power Grid Corporation Limited, to file a detailed report within the next fortnight regarding the grid failure last July that left 20 states in darkness for hours and affected the lives of over 60 crore Indians. Last July’s grid collapse led to total ...

Avantha Group Company CG and PLNE (PT Prima Layanan Nasional Enjinring) have signed a joint venture agreement to manufacture and commercialize High Voltage (HV) and Extra High Voltage (EHV) switchgear in Indonesia. PLNE is an engineering company owned by PLN (Perusahaan Listrik Negara), an Indonesian government-owned Sole Electricity Utility Company.  The joint venture will be owned 51% by CG and 49% by PLN ...

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 ...