The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $121.55 million financing package with Dynamic Sun Energy to build and operate a 100 MW grid-connected solar PV plant in Pabna, Bangladesh.
South Korea is facing the issue of saturation of its capacity to store spent nuclear fuel by 2030.
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Energy, with the support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), has announced the country’s first renewable energy auction for a 100 MW solar power plant project in Gobustan.
The Indian government has issued directives for gas-fired power plants to operate at maximum capacity from May 1 to June 30, to meet escalating power demand expected from the anticipated heat wave.
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business has won an order from Korea Western Power Co Ltd (KOWEPO), a subsidiary of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), to supply a 7HA.02 gas turbine and a H65 generator for KOWEPO’s power station in Gongiu-si, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea.
The Northern Power Generation Company Limited (NPGCL) in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, has signed an MOU with Ningbo Green Light Energy (NGLE) of China to upgrade an existing thermal power plant into a 300 MW solar power project.
Jera, a joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) and Chubu Electric Power, has started a demonstration trial of co-firing 20 per cent of ammonia with coal at its Hekinan thermal power station in Aichi prefecture, Japan.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam has convened a technical meeting to develop a road map for transition from coal-fired power generation to sustainable alternatives.
Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) has applied for regulatory approval to load nuclear fuel into reactor 7 at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power station from April 15 as it seeks to restart the plant.
JERA has announced plans to co-fire 20 per cent ammonia with coal at its Hekinan thermal power station in Japan. It said that this would be the world’s first trial using a large amount of the gas at a major commercial plant.