The development of hydropower capacity of Tajikistan is one of the ways to achieve energy stability in the region, Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi said at the international high-level conference on energy security and sustainability - vision of the OSCE, which will end in Ashgabat on Friday. Implementation of the concept of Central Asia - South Asia Regional Electricity Market (CASAREM) will contrib ...

The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has agreed to provide a $50m loan to Pakistan for the country's 969MW Neelum Jhelum hydropower plant. The new plant will help improve the efficiency of vital social services as well as encourage the development of local industries. Apart from Pakistan, OFID has also signed new loan agreements with Grenada, Mozambique and Senegal. Commenting on the newly-sig ...

Kosgulana Hydro Company (Pvt) Ltd signed an agreement with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka  to set up a Mini Hydro Power plant. Dr Lakshman Jayaweera, Chairman of the BOI signed the agreement on behalf of the BOI and Watanabe Satoru, Chairman and Mohamed Azam Koya, Director of the company have signed the agreement on behalf of the company. The wire site of the 1.5 MW project is located on Kukule Ganga ...

The global hydropower market will continue to expand over the next seven years, driven by strong growth in the Asia Pacific region that will see total capacity top 1,400GW by 2020. That is the conclusion of a new report from analyst firm GlobalData, which predicts global cumulative hydropower will rise from 1,065GW in 2012 to 1,407GW by 2020, delivering a compound annual growth rate of 3.5 per cent. The rep ...

A new proposal could require India's utilities to purchase a mandatory amount of hydroelectric power as the country works to wean itself off fossil-fueled forms of power generation. The proposal introduces a hydropower purchase obligation (HPO), which would modify India's Electricity Act of 2003 and changes to tariff policy in the years since. The legislation would also decrease some of the penalties levied ...

A Chinese engineering and construction company has commenced work on a $500 billion hydropower plant in the east African nation of Uganda. China International Water Electric (CWE) has commenced construction work on the 183-megawatt Isimba Falls hydropower plant, situated on the Ugandan stretch of the White Nile approximately 40 kilometres downstream from the Bujagali Power Station. The project is expected t ...

Indian conglomerate GVK Power and Infrastructure Ltd. has awarded Alstom a contract worth around $135 million to equip the 850 megawatt-Ratle hydropower plant with turbines. Under the contract, Alstom will supply the hydropower plant with four Francis turbines that are rated at 205 MW each, and one Francis turbine rated at 30 MW. The contract is slated to begin in the second quarter of the current fiscal ye ...

The Ulu Jelai hydroelectric project is nearly 40 per cent completed and it is anticipated to start operation in December 2015 for the first unit, and March 2016 for the second unit. The project  is expected to boost Pahang's economic growth and strengthen the stability of the National Grid System to attract foreign investors to Malaysia. Tengku Mahkota Pahang, Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah recently offi ...

Six years after the governments of India and Myanmar decided to develop two hydro power projects, of 2,080 Mw capacity in that nation, the latter has put the idea on hold. The 1,200-Mw Tamanthi and 880-Mw Shwezaye plants would have involved a spend of Rs 25,000 crore. “Implementation of (both) has been suspended temporarily by the ministry of electric power (MoEP) as the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) by N ...

With the China factor looming large, India is belatedly trying to make up for lost time in setting up hydroelectric projects on the Brahmaputra's Siang Basin in Arunachal Pradesh. Of the 25 projects totalling over 11,000 MW allotted to developers in Arunachal Pradesh, most of them over the last decade, construction work has not begun on even a single project. On September 10, at a high-level hydro task forc ...