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Bangladesh doubles generating capacity

  • 10 years ago (2013-11-22)
  • Junior Isles
Government officials have announced that in just five years Bangladesh has more than doubled its available power generation, from 5000 MW to 10 000 MW.

Exxon selling its share in Hong Kong’s Capco

  • 10 years ago (2013-11-20)
  • Junior Isles
US power giant ExxonMobil is selling its 60 per cent share in Hong Kong power generation firm Castle Peak Power (Capco) to CLP Holdings and China Southern Power Grid, according to a CLP announcement.

Philippine power firms take brunt of Haiyan’s stock market damage

  • 10 years ago (2013-11-19)
  • Junior Isles
Philippine power company First Gen Corp. and its unit Energy Development Corp. have suffered substantial stock market falls this week in the wake of typhoon Haiyan’s damage to power infrastructure.

ISO New England outlines transmission and generation needs

  • 10 years ago (2013-11-16)
  • David Flin
ISO New England has released its 2013 Regional System Plan, a report outlining transmission upgrades and market responses to address identified power grid reliability needs.

EIA report says coal losing further ground in US

  • 10 years ago (2013-11-14)
  • Junior Isles
A new report from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that coal-fired generation has lost some of its share of the US energy mix to natural gas and non-hydroelectric renewables, while still remaining the single largest fuel source.

Burma pledges new capacity amid protests

  • 10 years ago (2013-11-14)
  • Junior Isles
The Burmese government is pledging to build more power plants to head off further rises in electricity prices and satisfy protesters, according to state media reports.

Iran to double distributed generation to 1 GW by March 2014

  • 10 years ago (2013-11-11)
  • Junior Isles
Iran is to double the power generation capacity of its distributed power stations, from 500 MW to 1000 MW, by the end of the current Iranian calendar year on March 20, 2014, according to Homayoun Haeri, managing director of Iran Power Generation Transmission and Distribution Management Company (TAVANIR).

Huge power infrastructure investments on the Middle East horizon

  • 10 years ago (2013-11-11)
  • Junior Isles
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) should expect a massive wave of investments in power and water infrastructure within the next decade, according to Saeed Nassouri, Technical Advisor at Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority (ADWEA).

World Bank signs contract for new power project for Egypt

  • 10 years ago (2013-11-09)
  • David Flin
The World Bank and the Egyptian government have signed a contract for the Helwan South Power Plant Project, a gas-fired power plant intended to improve reliability of supply across the country.

RWE to shed jobs across Europe in cost saving programme

  • 10 years ago (2013-11-08)
  • Junior Isles
Germany's second largest utility, RWE, will be cutting jobs across its European generation business over the next few years, according to media reports.