Siemens has announced that it will provide the equipment to upgrade the Hiep Phuoc 1 steam power plant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to a combined cycle plant.
AES has signed an MOU with the Vietnamese Government to build a 2.2GW $1.7 billion gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Vietnam.
Iran and Russia have announced the start of a new phase of construction for a second reactor at Iran’s Bushehr site on the Gulf Coast.
GE Renewable Energy and ENMAX have agreed to upgrade an existing LM6000 gas turbine at ENMAX’s Crossfield Energy Center in Alberta, Canada with GE’s Hybrid Electric Gas Turbine technology.
Siemens has announced that it will set up a high-efficiency HL-class power island for a new combined cycle power plant in South Korea.
Tata Power has announced that it will create a new arm, TP Renewable Microgrid, to set up 10,000 microgrids to provide power to five million homes across the country.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $450 million loan to strengthen power connectivity between the southern and northern parts of the Chennai-Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor (CKIC) in Tamil Nadu.
Siemens Gamesa has won a contract for the world’s largest floating wind power plant, which will be installed off Norway.
Nasrul Hamid, the State Minister for Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources for Qatar, said that the country is willing to make major investments in Bangladesh’s energy sector.
The Australian Government has announced that it is putting an additional $1 billion into its publicly-funded Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), the so-called “green bank” to invest in energy projects.