The Tanzanian Minister of Energy, Dr Medard Kalemani, has indicated that the construction of Stiegler’s Gorge Power Generation Project is anticipated to begin in July this year. Speaking ahead of the commissioning of the Kinyerezi II power generation project on Tuesday, Dr Kalemani said the project will be implemented in 36 months. The hydropower project […]

The use of natural gas for the state-owned Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) to generate electricity has been found to be feasible and a site has already been identified to land a pipeline to bring the fuel ashore, Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson said. “It has been confirmed that it is feasible. It […]

NG Bailey has bought Wakefield power engineering services contractor the Freedom Group. The £120m revenue contractor employs around 600 staff delivering works for the growing electricity distribution market. The expanded M&E services business will have an annual turnover of more than £600m and employ 3,600 people. Freedom works primarily for power companies across substations, overhead […]

New Delhi: With India bracing for a scorching summer, electricity spot prices will continue to surge in the near term, driven by both structural and seasonal reasons, Crisil Infrastructure Advisory said. This comes against the backdrop of the India Meteorological Department’s summer temperature forecast of normal to above-normal and likely heat wave conditions over the […]

PENNSYLVANIA: Retail electricity sales fell by 80 billion kilowatt-hours in 2017, the largest drop the industry has seen since the 2009 recession, according to the Energy Information Administration. Total sales in 2017 were 3,682 billion kWh. The drop in sales caused a drop in Pennsylvania’s collection of utility tax revenue, according to the Independent Fiscal Office. […]

INDIA: The inability to meet demand in the peak seasons due to a mismatch between renewable energy generation curve and insufficient domestic coal supplies has since long troubled India’s power sector. This year too the scenario doesn’t seem to be much different from the previous years. “We are staring at a huge problem because peak power […]

Declining costs for renewable energy, particularly onshore wind and solar with an 18% improvement in comparative costs, is putting pressure on fossil fuels in the energy market. According to research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), coal and gas are facing a mounting threat to their position in the world’s electricity generation mix, as a […]

NEW DELHI, April 2 (Xinhua) — India has 22 nuclear power plants with a power generation capacity of 6,780 megawatts. Majority of them are spread in southern states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and western states of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra. No doubt, power supply situation has improved a lot, even if compared with a […]

The Geothermal Resources Council, a California-based trade association, said Kenya ranks eighth in the world in geothermal energy production. And the country is poised to add substantially more geothermal-sourced power to its grid in the next few years, a trend noted in other countries trying to diversify their energy portfolios, and where geothermal potential exists. […]

Chile joined the ranks of nearly two dozen countries that have announced a phaseout or a moratorium of coal generation, pledging not to continue building coal-fired power plants unless they are equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS). The January 29 announcement by the country’s energy ministry and electric power generators’ association, Asociación de Generadoras, […]

The European Commission’s latest reports on gas and electricity markets, which cover the last quarter of 2017, have just been published, containing a wide range of data about supply and usage of electricity and gas in the EU. The electricity market report confirms that over the last few years electricity consumption in the EU has […]

The Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (Sewa) has recently completed installation of 48,000 smart meters in various parts of Sharjah. Speaking to Khaleej Times, Dr Rashid Al Leem, chairman of Sewa, said that the authority is replacing 400 to 600 meters every day at industrial and residential areas. He said that the strategy of 2020 […]