Uganda has awarded a Chinese firm a contract to build a new dam and power plant on the Nile, a senior government official told Reuters on Monday, the second such project to go to China in less than two months. China, as elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, has rapidly expanded its investment in Uganda in recent years, snapping up major government contracts often after extending cheap credit. The latest 188-mega ...

Nepal hydro developer Tanahu Hydropower Ltd. invites expressions of interest from consultants to provide hydropower construction supervision for the 140-MW Tanahu hydroelectric project on Nepal's Seti River. Responses are due August 16. Tanahu (or Tanahun) originally was called the Upper Seti project, an estimated 127-MW plant that was among 10,000 MW of hydropower projects established as a priority over te ...

State oil and gas firm PT Pertamina and PT Tirta Gemah Ripah are working on a three-year project to develop mini-hydro power plants (PTLM) in West Java. “Studies will be conducted in a number of locations in Cianjur and Tasikmalaya, both in West Java, each with a potential of producing 4-5 megawatts [MW],” Pertamina gas director Hari Karyuliarto said in a press statement over the weekend. "The development o ...

All four units manufactured by Alstom for China’s Xiangjiaba underground hydro power plant have now successfully entered commercial operation. These 800 MW class units coupled with a 889 MVA generator are the most powerful hydroelectric generating units in the world. Each unit is able to supply the yearly electricity consumption of approximately 5 million inhabitants during a year. The four units were desig ...

Around 43% of the total dams in Maharashtra are in need of repair. A survey of 1,144 dams across the state conducted last year found that as many as 493 of them, including 126 in Nashik division, needed to be repaired "on priority" to avoid any breach. However, none of the dams fell in the "urgent" category for repair. The Dam Safety Organisation (DSO) wing of the state government agency, Maharashtra Engine ...

China's second-largest hydropower station became operational Monday with its first power generating unit officially starting work after a three-day test run. The No. 13 power generating unit with a capacity of 770,000 kw at the Xiluodu hydropower station started providing electricity to the China Southern Power Grid, its operator China Three Gorges Corporation said in a statement. With a total generating ca ...

Under the agreement, Vietcombank serves as the lead manager to arrange the syndicated loan of VND14.5 trillion, or roughly US$700 million, with the participation of other co-lenders namely Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank), Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) and Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank). Lai Chau hydropower plant project, comprising of t ...

In an another blow to Pakistan's water interests, India has started constructing the Ratle Hydropower Dam project with a capacity to generate 850MW of electricity on Pakistan's Chenab River, in violation of the Indus Waters Treaty. Pakistan has already objected to this dam, which will be three times larger than the Baglihar Hydropower Dam. Mirza Asif Baig, Commissioner of Pakistan Commission of Indus Water, ...

As many as 338 hydro-power projects, which theoretically could generate a combined capacity of over 1,000MW of electricity, would be put off. The decision has been jointly made by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and provincial authorities across the country. They also agreed to have another 169 potential projects dropped from consideration. These moves follow a series of recent inspection carried out by ...

Malaysia’s national power utility company, Tenaga Nasional Berhad, plans to upgrade its largest hydropower plant the Sultan Mahmud located in Kenyir, Kuala Berang. T.N.B. has met with the power plant’s original equipment manufacturer partners from Japan, specifically Ebara and Hitachi, for the inspection of Sultan Mahmud’s turbine and transformer units and for the upgrade. T.N.B. will be assessing the overa ...