HE Ministry of Industry will encourage the manufacturing of electric vehicles in spite of the difficulties involved, said Minister of Industry U Khin Maung Cho. He said this at an event organised by local car assembler Dagon Arman Thit Co to launch three new car models in the local market on Sunday. Dagon Arman Thit […]

To utilise the country’s sizeable power generation capacity, the government is planning to connect more neighbouring countries through a regional power grid which can be used to supply electricity to surrounding nations without adequate number of power plants.

The government is working to deal with rising fuel oil prices as it increased transportation costs and has an impact on commodity prices, said Zaw Htay, Spokesperson of Myanmar President’s Office, at a press conference held in the President House in Nay Pyi Taw on October 5. “Transportation costs have increased by 10 per cent […]

The Ministry of Electricity and Energy said half of the households would have electricity by the end of 2019; despite the chronic power shortages, the country faces due to increasing demand. U Thura Aung Ko, chief engineer at Electricity Supply Enterprise, said 50.9 percent of the country would be connected to the national grid by […]

The government said that it will be extending the deadline for the monthly power tariff in Yangon for up to a month as part of measures to avoid unnecessary mass gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The upgrading of a combine cycle gas turbine power plant in Ywama, Yangon, has been given the go-ahead by the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE). The power plant is located in Insein township, and the US$300 million required for the upgrading will be provided by World Bank. A tender for the project will be […]

Yangon — The Ministry of Electricity and Energy is hoping to expand electricity access to half of the population by December, according to Deputy Minister U Khin Maung Win. Of 10,877,832 households in Myanmar, 5,140,061 – or 47 per cent of the population – had access to electricity by October. The deputy minister told the […]

Arrangements have been made to prepare sufficient electricity to meet rising demand next year, according to the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE). The rate of increase in electricity consumption typically rises by 15 percent per year on average. This fiscal year though, demand is expected to increase by 19pc. As such, the MOEE is […]

Myanmar has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to buy electricity from a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant. The project company of CNTIC VPower Group inked a five-year PPA with the Ministry of Electricity and Energy’s Electric Power Generation Enterprise (EPGE) on June 10.

The government will light another 4000 villages across the country in the second phase of its electrification plan, said U Thura Aung Ko, chief engineer and project manager of the Ministry of Electricity and Energy. He added the agency has begun inviting tenders to supply equipment for the project. “We are not yet inviting construction tenders,” […]