Iran’s Director for Taibud Electric Office Ehsan Siyahzadeh said on Sunday that 190,000 kilowatts /hour of electricity is exported to Afghanistan daily, according to Iran’s IRNA news agency report. He said that since the beginning of the current Iranian year more than 48,000 megawatts of electricity had been exported to Afghanistan through Dogharoun distribution post, […]

The decision earlier this month by AT&T (Dallas, Texas) to ink contracts for 520 MW of wind power with a unit of NextEra Energy (Juno Beach, Florida) is the latest move by Corporate America to increase its use of renewable energy. Published in Windpower Engineering and Development, 26th February, 2018   https://www.windpowerengineering.com/business-news-projects/corporate-americas-electricity-supply-growing-greener/

Hong Kong-based regional electricity provider CLP Holdings is looking for acquisition opportunities to branch out further into India’s energy supply chain, as the company eyes rapid economic development there and a consequent increase in electricity demand. While electricity distribution assets in India are mostly government-owned, transmission businesses have been opened up to private investments, said […]

European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) voted Wednesday to modernise the EU’s electricity market, striving to give consumers more choice and greater energy security. The ITRE amended four legislative proposals on the EU electricity market. They are part of the so-called Clean Energy package and a step closer to an Energy Union. […]

A small energy company has launched a new tariff that will potentially pay customers to use its electricity when demand is low. Octopus Energy’s new Agile tariff tracks wholesale electricity prices, allowing customers to take advantage if there is an excess of supply and the electricity price “goes negative”. Across Britain, whenever more electricity is […]

Turkey has updated electricity legislation relating to calculation of guarantee amounts, reporting obligations, prohibition of share transfers, as well as notification obligations during share transfers. The requirement to hold data processing centres within Turkey has now also been removed. Published in Lexology, 22nd February, 2018 https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d347f4dc-09f5-4c43-99c5-41a7a240a224

Egypt will increase electricity prices sold in domestic markets in the next fiscal year in five months’ time, according to Minister of Electricity and Energy, Mohamed Shaker. In a statement, Shaker confirmed that electricity subsidies would be “zero” in the fiscal year 2020-2021 after the subsidy was supposed to be terminated in the 2018-2019 year. […]

Aiming to increase competition in the electricity supply market and give consumers an option to choose their power supplier, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has come out with an approach paper. The commission has placed the approach paper in public domain and sought suggestions from stakeholders on its content. Presently the consumers can not […]

The government of Jordan has given parties interested in delivering a 30MW energy storage system in the Kingdom six months to come up with technical and financial offers. Following a July 2017 Request for Submissions of Interest (REOI), issued by the country’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) on which it was advised by […]

According to the Iranian energy ministry, Iran’s power plants generated over 271.91 TWh (terawatt hours) of electricity since the beginning of the current Iranian fiscal year ‎‎(March 21, 2017) until Jan. 26. The output was almost 7 percent more compared to the same period of the preceding year, according to the latest weekly data published […]

Iraq will soon start importing electricity from Kuwait through power pylons, a spokesman of the Iraqi electricity ministry was quoted saying on Wednesday. Musaab al-Madras was quoted saying in a press statement that “the ministry signed with the Kuwaiti side a memorandum of understanding for the import of electricity from Kuwait during a visit by […]

The World Bank on Friday announced a $486 million International Development Association credit to support the rehabilitation and upgrade of Nigeria’s electricity transmission substations and lines. Although the Nigerian government has always said the country’s power generation capacity has increased to more than 7,000 megawatts, the challenge remained in the area of weak transmission infrastructure […]