The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide technical and financial support for increased development of solar power and battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Pakistan.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs has instructed Taipower to restart two coal-fired units at Mailiao Power Plant in Yunlin County in May, because of concerns over LNG supply disruptions resulting from the war in Iran.
Electricity generation at the 1670 MW Srisailam hydropower plant in Andhra Pradesh, India has stopped as water levels in the reservoir have fallen to critical levels, threatening supply across the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
The Philippine Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it will accelerate the grid entry of 1471 MW from 22 renewable energy projects that are in advanced stages of construction.
The Japanese government has announced it will pause a measure aimed at limiting the operation of coal-fired power plants, due to the conflict in Iran threatening the supply of LNG.
Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines, has declared the country is in a state of “national energy emergency” as a result of the Iran War. He said that it poses “an imminent danger of a critically low energy supply.”
The Tokyo-based JERA is proposing to develop a 500 MW LNG-fired power plant on Oahu, replacing power production fuelled by burning oil.
Vestas Wind Systems has signed a memorandum of cooperation with Japan’s Ministry of Energy, Trade, and Industry (METI) to build a plant in Japan by fiscal 2029 to assemble wind turbine nacelles.
Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) will soon submit a plan to restart the decommissioned Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant in Hengchun, Pingtung County, Taiwan, with the objective of having it start to generate electricity by 2028.
GE Vernova has announced an investment of $200 million to establish a new transformer manufacturing facility in Hai Phong, Vietnam.