Senior officials with Uzbekistan’s state-run power company have said work has begun on building power cables to Afghanistan that will enable them to increase exports by 70 percent. Uzbekenergo chief executive Ulugbek Mustafayev said in a press conference on March 24 that construction of the Afghan section of the 260-kilometer Surkhan-Pul-e-Khumri line will start in […]

New Delhi: India’s electricity production grew 34% over seven years to 2017, and the country now produces more energy than Japan and Russia, which had 27% and 8.77% more electricity generation capacity installed, respectively, than India seven years ago. Published in India Spend, 26th March, 2018 http://www.indiaspend.com/cover-story/india-produced-34-more-electricity-last-year-than-2010-now-third-globally-76993

The Kenyan government is set to spend Sh15 billion ($149 million) to rollout a countrywide electricity connection through the Last Mile Connectivity project. Energy cabinet secretary, Charles Keter, who was speaking at ACK St Joseph Kipkaren Parish in Uasin Gishu County, announced this over the weekend. Keter said that the Jubilee government is determined to […]

LAHORE: The Punjab government says the Auditor General of Pakistan’s `preliminary observations’ about the solar power project in Bahawalpur are not based on facts. The AGP report (published in Dawn’s March 24 issue) said its auditors have detected irregularities in the award of the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and operation and maintenance (O&M) contracts […]

PARIS- German spot power contract for day-ahead delivery soared on the wholesale market on Thursday on the back of forecasts showing a sharp drop in wind electricity generation. * The German baseload spot power price for Friday delivery gained 11.75 euros to 52.75 euros ($65.22) a megawatt-hour (MWh). * Electricity production from German wind turbines […]

PARIS – A nationwide strike has reduced French electricity generation by over three gigawatts (GW) on Thursday as gas and electricity sector workers join rail and public sector workers in a protest against planned reforms. French grid operator RTE said power production has been cut at French nuclear, coal and oil-fired generation plants totalling over […]

Indonesia has been home to some of the world’s largest subsidies for electricity use. Electricity prices have been set at low levels, with the government making transfers to Indonesia’s electricity utility, Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), to cover its losses. In 2012, electricity subsidies cost the government US$10 billion. In an ambitious reform program, since 2013 […]

Asia needs nuclear energy to meet its economic, energy and environmental goals, but such plans are still in the development phase in the South East region of the continent, Agneta Rising, director general of World Nuclear Association, said today. Addressing delegates at the Sustainable Energy Technology Asia 2018 conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Rising noted that […]

According to EIA’s Electric Power Monthly, total U.S. net electricity generation fell slightly (down 1.5%) in 2017, reflecting lower electricity demand. Natural gas and coal generation fell by 7.7% and 2.5% from 2016, respectively, as generation from several renewable fuels, particularly hydro, wind, and solar, increased from 2016 levels. Although natural gas continued to be […]

DBS today announced the launch of the DBS Electricity Marketplace which will allow all households in Jurong (residents with postal code of 60, 61, 62, 63 and 64) to seamlessly switch to other retailers with the liberalisation of the retail electricity market in Singapore. Around 108,000 households in Jurong will stand to benefit in this […]

Enel Green Power North America announced on Monday that it had signed two Power Purchase Agreements with Facebook and Adobe for the electricity generated from its soon-to-be-completed 320 megawatt Rattlesnake Creek wind farm in Nebraska. Construction of the Rattlesnake Creek wind farm began in November of 2017 by Enel Green Power North America, the US […]

Billions of dollars, thousands of megawatts: the government’s recent decision to green-light four power projects was the biggest development in the sector for several years. But in the background, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy is dealing with a more immediate problem: How to meet Myanmar’s growing short-term power needs without blowing the budget. On […]