Equipment manufacturers and contractors will count on state firms for large orders next fiscal as power sector giants plan to invest Rs 50,000 crore in various projects, although the private sector has been stymied by fuel scarcity and distribution problems. According to government sources, a  major chunk of these investments will come from internal and extra budgetary resources of public sector undertaking ...

According to the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), GN Power Ltd.’s new 600-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant has received a new transmission line that will transmit the additional 600-MW capacity that GN Power is planning to produce on top of its current 600-MW capacity. The new transmission line, a 230-kiloVolt (kV) line from Mariveles to Limay, Bataan, was completed on January 21 at an est ...

Tata Power Co. Ltd, which recently signed a power distribution franchise agreement with the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB), will invest Rs.500 crore in the Jamshedpur circle of the Jharkhand state. The country's largest integrated power company, which will upgrade existing infrastructure and distribution network there, also hopes it can reduce aggregate technical and commercial (ATC) losses to 13% ...

North China's port city of Tianjin is to invest some 7 billion yuan to speed up smart grid construction, according to a source with Tianjin Electric Power Company. The investment will mostly go to main electric grid construction as well as power distribution network construction and upgrades, according to the source. Main construction works include Jinghai 500 KV power transmission and transformation projec ...

A loan agreement of EUR75 million was recently signed between France and Vietnam for the Pleiku-Cau Bong transmission line . This signature marks a new and important stage in France's commitment to support the economic development of Vietnam, through the strengthening of its electricity network. The project's high-voltage (500kV) electric transmission line will connect Pleiku to Cau Bong, on a 437 km route ...

Bangladesh is likely to enact a new law, named Electricity Bill, 2013, this year, replacing the century-old Electricity Act of 1910 in order to strengthen the power sector. The Power Cell, the government’s policy wing for the sector, is currently working on the proposed Electricity Bill, 2013. The new law would focus on decentralisation of the power sector without triggering the earlier-adopted policy-led r ...

State Grid Corp. of China, the world’s largest utility by revenue, is in talks to buy Hastings Funds Management’s 25% stake in South Australia state power transmission grid operator ElectraNet for up to 400 million Australian dollars (US$415 million). In November, State Grid bought Powerlink Queensland’s 41.1% stake in ElectraNet for around A$500 million and at a similar valuation, a deal with Hastings coul ...

Transgrid are to move ahead with animportant transmission relocation for Xstrata’s Mangoola Coal mining project. Environmental consultant, Umwelt, has completed a detailed Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Project, which received approval from the Minister of Planning and infrastructure in July 2012. The Mangoola 500 kV Relocation Project will involve the relocation of an existing transmission line on X ...

The largest private utility Tata Power has bagged a contract to provide technical services to Benin Distribution Company of Nigeria, a top official said. This marks the company’s foray into the power distribution segment in a foreign country, Tata Power Managing Director Anil Sardana The Tatas are the second domestic discom to enter Nigeria after the R P Sanjiv Goenka Group flagship CESC, which had bagged a ...

Electricity provider Ausgrid is denying union claims it plans to axe up to 1,000 jobs in the Hunter. Ausgrid spokesman Anthony O'Brien says only 780 jobs are being cut mainly by natural attrition and voluntary redundancy by Ausgrid, Essential Energy and Endeavour Energy across the state. The Electrical Trades Union is claiming leaked internal documents show thousands more jobs will be cut to prepare for the ...