Experts say that the protests against worsening electricity blackouts in Iraq are likely to exacerbate in the near future following the disruption to Iranian gas supplies.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed an agreement to supply a €160 million loan to Ukrnafta, a Ukrainian state-owned oil and gas company which is using EBRD finance to supply and install small-scale gas-fired distributed power and cogeneration capacity around the country.
Wärtsilä has announced that it has won a contract from Reko Diq Mining Company (RDMC) to supply a 204 MW power plant for the Reko Diq copper-gold mining project in Pakistan.
India has produced revised guidelines for its waste-to-energy programme under the National Bioenergy Programme, aiming to develop a more efficient system for developing the technology.
Fuji Electric of Japan will provide the power generation equipment for a $500 million geothermal power project in West Sumatra, Indonesia.
Ukrenergo has announced that it expects to connect at least 1 GW of high-flexibility power generation capacity, including gas engines and gas turbines, before the onset of winter.
Wärtsilä has won a contract from Elektron Energy to supply power generation equipment for a new 30 MW power plant on Victoria Island in Lagos.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and JSC Ukrzaliznytsia have announced a tender for the purchase of container gas engine power plants for Ukraine, each of a capacity of 1.8-3.5 MW, for a total capacity of 215 MW, using EBRD loan funds and grant financing.
Uzbekistan plans to build waste-to-energy (WTE) plants across several regions in the country. Presidential decrees have approved investment projects in Tashkent and the regions of Andijan, Namangan, Ferghana, Tashkent, Kashkadarya, and Samarkand.
Wärtsilä has partnered with Brazil’s Energetica Suape II, majority owned by Grupo Econômico 4M, to conduct a world-first clean energy trial, which will see ethanol produced from sugarcane to generate power.