PT VKTR Teknologi Mobilitas (VKTR), the Indonesian importer of Chinese made BYD electric buses, announced plans to build a bus assembly plant in the country.

Vietnam is keen to import more electricity from Laos to address its projected energy shortages, according to a senior official.

Volvo has revealed a pioneering, driverless electric bus that is set to undergo testing, before being put into operation on Singapore’s roads. The 12-metre long bus, AB 7900, has a capacity of 93 people, and is able to carry 57 standing passengers as well as those seated. Unlike regular buses used in public transport networks worldwide, this electric vehicle […]

VPower Group International Holdings Ltd has successfully expanded its footprint into the LNG-to-power industry through a partnership with China National Technical Import and Export Corp (CNTIC). On 14 June 2020, the power station in Thaketa Township of Yangon, Myanmar, built by the 50-50 joint venture of VPower Group and CNTIC (CNTIC VPower), started generating electricity […]

Hong Kong-listed VPower Group has set up a 50-50 joint venture with a Chinese state firm to develop three power plants in Myanmar as part of the government’s bid to stop power cuts this year. VPower, which enjoys close links with investment bank CITIC, and state-owned China National Technical Import & Export Corporation (CNTIC) will […]

Crippling brownouts will dampen the country’s bid for economic recovery in the near term if the Department of Energy (DOE) will not act early enough to concretize a viable replacement for the gas output from the Malampaya field.

Wärtsilä has been awarded a 40MW equipment supply contract for a power plant in Shwe Taung, Myanmar. The MCM Power facility aims to help meet the nation’s increasing energy demand by feeding baseload power into the national grid and alleviate its ongoing energy shortage. The plant will operate on four natural gas engines and is […]

The technology group Wärtsilä will support the 145 MW Kyaukse gas engine power plant in, Mandalay region, Myanmar, in meeting its availability guarantees and other obligations through a 5-year Operation and maintenance agreement. The agreement has been signed with the plant owners, PowerGen Kyaukse Co. Ltd., in February 2019 and the order was booked in […]

Mining company PT Freeport Indonesia has selected technology company Wärtsilä for the development of a 128MW power plant in Indonesia.

Technology company Wärtsilä has signed a five-year power plant maintenance agreement covering the Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) C7 power plant, located close to Phnom Penh in Cambodia.