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Puerto Rico’s largest power plant could be offline for a year
- 2020-01-10 05:19:24
- David Flin
Jose Ortiz, Executive Director of the power utility PREPA, said that Puerto Rico’s largest power plant could remain out of action for up to a year because of earthquake damage.
Vietnam to buy 1500 GWh of power annually from Laos
- 2020-01-06 05:55:38.981240
- David Flin
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.
Plans progress for UK-France power link
- 2020-01-03 06:16:45.844074
- David Flin
Registration of interested parties has started for the Aquind HVDC power project, after its application was accepted for examination by the Planning Inspectorate.
Malta-Sicily interconnector non-operational for several months
- 2019-12-31 06:47:58.590918
- David Flin
Jason Vella, CEO of Enemalta, has confirmed that the Malta-Sicily interconnector was severely damaged by a ship’s anchor on 23 December, and will be out of action until at least the end of February.
Joint electricity grid between Egypt and Sudan to start operating in January
- 2019-12-30 05:27:06.090064
- David Flin
Ayman Hamza, a spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy said that a 50MW grid connection between the Egyptian and Sudanese electricity grids will start operation on 12 January, 2020.
South Africa suffers power cuts as Eskom units break down
- 2019-12-06 05:16:04.137876
- David Flin
South Africa was hit by power cuts on 5 December after a number of generating units broke down, forcing the state utility Eskom to cut 2000MW from the national grid on a rotational basis.
Siemens to retrofit on of the largest substation in Germany
- 2019-11-15 05:28:51.927882
- David Flin
German transmission grid operator TransnetBW has commissioned Siemens to build new switchgear in the 380kV Daxlanden substation in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg.
ADB clears $450 million loan for power connectivity in India
- 2019-11-05 05:04:38.746959
- David Flin
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $450 million loan to strengthen power connectivity between the southern and northern parts of the Chennai-Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor (CKIC) in Tamil Nadu.
India looking at overhead electricity link with Sri Lanka
- 2019-10-28 04:26:07.517450
- David Flin
The Indian Government is exploring an option to set up an overhead electricity link with Sri Lanka to supply power to the island nation.
Iraq signs agreement to connect into Gulf power grid
- 2019-09-16 05:23:12.669695
- David Flin
Iraq has signed a deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for a transmission line that would import up to 500 MW to its overstretched grid by 2020.
