Power Utility

Transmission woes cause Metro Manila - Rizal blackouts

Eastern Metro Manila and Rizal province experienced rotating blackouts as Meralco implemented manual load dropping due to the shutdown of a...

Transmission woes cause Metro Manila - Rizal blackouts

Eastern Metro Manila and Rizal province experienced rotating blackouts as Meralco implemented manual load dropping due to the shutdown of a...

CLP’s Hong Kong nuclear supply deal extended by 20 years

CLP will supply power to Hong Kong from Guangdong Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station for another 20 years from 2014. This was made possible by the...

First concrete pour completed at Haiyang nuclear site

Two AP1000 plants will be delivered at Haiyang as the first pour of basemat structural concrete has been completed.

CEM uses lessons learned from last year's typhoon

CEM immediately deployed over 10 vehicles and 40 staff for network operation and emergency service to ensure Macao’s reliable power supply as Typhoon...

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.