Voith Hydro completes modernization of digital turbine governors for Kinda plant, Myanmar
Voith has successfully completed the modernization of digital governors for two units of the Kinda hydropower plant in Myanmar, reviving the plant and contributing to local economic and social development.
VPower Group’s JV starts powering Myanmar with LNG
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 […]
VPower, CNTIC form JV to operate Myanmar emergency power plants
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 […]
Warning of blackouts next summer, govt regulates hydropower plant operations
Authorities are closely watching the operations of hydropower plants across the country due to low rainfall and low water levels in dams during the recently ended rainy season, which they warn could trigger massive blackouts next summer. U Soe Myint, deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of Electricity and Energy, said the ministry will start regulating […]
Wärtsilä awarded 40MW equipment supply contract for power plant in Myanmar
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 […]
Wärtsilä Operation And Maintenance Agreement Will Help Kyaukse Power Plant To Meet Its Supply Obligations To The National Grid In Myanmar
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 […]
Wärtsilä to deliver equipment for two LNG-fuelled power plants in Myanmar
Wärtsilä has announced that it will deliver the equipment for two LNG-fuelled power plants being urgently installed in Myanmar on a fast-track basis. During summer last year, Wärtsilä claims that the Yangon area of Myanmar saw power cuts of up to six hours a day. In order to avoid this situation happening again, the Myanmar […]
What are the woes in Myanmar’s energy mix?
No new MOA or PPA has yet to be concluded for two years already. It has already been two years since Myanmar’s newly democratised government came to political power, but much to the frustration of energy firms, a new MOA or PPA has yet to be concluded to increase another kind of power in the country: […]
What’s New in Myanmar’s Project Bank
YANGON—The Myanmar government has added to the country’s “project bank” of officially endorsed infrastructure plans nearly six dozen new major investment projects worth billions of dollars, including the construction of research and laboratory facilities, expressways and bridges, power supply projects and inland ports across the country.