Several uncertainties are delaying the Electrical Power Plan VIII project for the national development plan for the period 2021 to 2030 with a vision until 2045. There are also very many hurdles and hindrances for the development of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), which has been expected to bring about an energy revolution.

West of the downtown area, across the Yangon River, there’s a narrow spit of land that ends at the mouth of Twante Canal, with the island of Seikgyikanaungto to the west. For a brief period nearly three years ago, this site was to be the home of a power plant. It remains empty except for […]

Electricity meters: it’s a good business – if you can get it. For decades this market, worth tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars, was closed to competition. Under the military junta, analogue meters were either imported directly from abroad or produced in country under a partnership between the Ministry of Industry’s Heavy Industry […]

SINGAPORE – Independent electricity retailer Union Power will be scaling down its operations by closing some retail accounts, but it will not exit Singapore’s open electricity market.

URBAN Charge will provide free EV charging units for C&I and condominium building owners, who adopt solar rooftop and energy efficiency projects with URBAN RENEWABLES. The initiative sets to support Singapore government’s goal to roll out a network of public and private charging stations to kickstart decarbonisation of the country’s transport sector.

THE United States plans to construct a geothermal power plant in Mindanao to provide consumers clean energy and cheaper electricity. A fact sheet released by the White House on Sunday said that US Vice President Kamala Harris will launch new initiatives to strengthen the US-Philippines alliance, including cooperation in the energy sector.

Toyo Thai Power Myanmar Co Ltd (TPMC) plans to invest between US$350 million (K471 billion) to US$500 million to set up a liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plant, U Htet Aung Mon, general manager of TTCL Power Myanmar said. TPMC is the subsidiary of Thailand-based TTCL Public Co Ltd. The LNG power plant expected to […]

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded technology company Tetra Tech with a $38.8 million contract aimed at improving grid resilience in Indonesia.

Imagine being able to use commonplace objects like sea salt and a piece of cloth to capture moisture in the air to generate electricity or even power everyday gadgets with a non-toxic battery that is as thin as paper. A novel moisture-driven electricity generation (MEG) device has been created by a team of scientists from […]

In Malaysia, Kapar Energy Ventures, a subsidiary of Tenaga Nasional Berhad and Malakoff Corporation Berhad, has selected technology firm Valmet to automate its 2,200MW thermal power plant.