Vietnam’s state power utility Vietnam Electricity (EVN) has announced it will buy around 1500 GWh of electricity a year from Laos for two years starting in 2021.
India is making rapid progress towards its goal of achieving 175GW of renewable capacity by 2022, and is on course to pass 100GW during 2020.
The first power generation unit of the second phase of the Nam Ou River Cascade Hydropower Project started operation on 26 December.
Siemens has announced that it will equip Lalitpur Lower Generation Company, a Bajaj Group company, with advanced digital solutions for its power plant located in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, in India.
India’s Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued a notice to the Panipat Thermal Power Station in Haryana that one of its units could be shut down for failure to comply with the deadline to meet emission standards.
Wärtsilä has been awarded a 40MW extended engineered equipment supply contract for a power plant in Shwe Taung in the southern central part of Myanmar.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Gulf PD Company have signed a $180 million agreement to build and operate a 2500MW combined cycle gas turbine power plant in the Rojana Rayong 2 Industrial Park of Thailand’s Rayong province, about 150km southeast of Bangkok.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) and Hai Long Offshore Wind have signed a preferred supplier agreement for the delivery and servicing of turbines on the 300MW Hai Long 2 project.
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.