Power Utility

San Miguel eyes Sucat plant

After acquiring a Bataan plant, San Miguel Corporation expressed interest in buying the Sucat Thermal plant, a dormant plant in Manila.

San Miguel eyes Sucat plant

After acquiring a Bataan plant, San Miguel Corporation expressed interest in buying the Sucat Thermal plant, a dormant plant in Manila.

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant to be tested at full capacity

Satisfactory evaluation results of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant while generating power at 75 percent prompted TEPCO to test it while maximising...

Green Core gives highest for Palinpinon-Tongonan plants

Green Core Geothermal Inc. gave the highest bid for the 192.5-megawatt Palinpinon and 112.5-MW Tongonan geothermal power plants with $220-million...

Meralco to credit $2.059M payouts in Sept

Meralco begins paying around US$2.059 million worth of payouts next month for about 800,000 incidents where service commitments were not met...

Electricité du Cambodge to receive payments via ATMs

After being chosen by the Cambodian government to facilitate tax payments, Acleda Bank's ATMs will now receive electricity payments in behalf of the...

Aboitiz acquires two 100-MW power-generating barges

Aboitiz Power won a negotiated bid to acquire two barge-mounted, diesel-powered generation plants from PSALM. Each of the plants has a generating...

Datang generates 1.5 percent less kilowatts for 1H

Datang generated 61.3 billion kilowatts electricity in the first half of this year, representing a decline of 1.5 percent year on year.

Japanese power companies sell 7.9% less in June

Japanese electricity demand in June was down 7.9 percent on last year to 64.4 billion kWh. This was measured in terms of the total electricity sales...

Meralco strengthens energy efficiency advocacy

Meralco is further educating its customers on efficient and responsible electricity usage with the introduction of energy efficiency corner kiosks.

CR Power’s generation up by 2.9% in June

China Resources Power's total net generation in June 2009, on a consolidated basis, increased by 2.9 percent to 5,612,935 MWh.

Shalong Wind Farm starts commercial operation

China Resources Wind Power Co., Ltd. Phase II Shalong Wind Farm is now supplying electricity to the Guangdong provincial power grid.

AREVA consortium wins a $120M contract in Indonesia

A consortium formed by AREVA has been awarded a US$166.7 million contract by PT PLN, the Indonesian Public Electric utility.

Energy loans available to CLP, HK Electric customers

Loans to finance business customers of CLP Hong Kong and Hongkong Electric Co. Ltd. for energy efficiency are now available at HSBC.

Meralco power bills down again in June

Following a US$.0034 drop in the generation charge, from US$.0915 per kWh last May to US$.0881 per kWh this month, Meralco customers will experience...

TEPCO braces for 61 million kW summer demand

The Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (TEPCO) expects its peak demand of summer 2009 to be about 61.00 million kW per month, in both July and August...

CLP electricity sales down for 1Q

CLP electricity sales for the first quarter in Hong Kong and Chinese mainland decreased by 8.9 percent to 6,891GWh.

Singapore to test-beds electric vehicles

A multi-agency taskforce has been set up to spearhead the test-bedding of Electric Vehicles in Singapore. It will be chaired by the Energy Market...