Pakistan suffered a nationwide power outage affecting nearly 220 million people due to a breakdown in the country’s electricity grid on January 23, 2023. The outage was caused by a large voltage surge in the southern part of the...
Read MoreThe governments of Pakistan and Iran have agreed to supply an additional 100 MW of electricity to Gwadar starting March 1, 2023. The two countries had signed the related supply agreement in June 2022. In addition, the Pakistani...
Read MoreNepal plans to propose the development of two new cross-border power transmission lines with India in an upcoming high-level meeting between the two countries in late February 2023. The 400 kV transmission lines are – Inaruwa...
Read MoreIndian private sector power company, Sterlite Power, has bagged multiple orders worth INR38 billion across its solutions business unit in the domestic and international markets during the first three quarters of 2022-23,...
Read MoreThe Indian power sector’s first infrastructure investment trust, India Grid Trust (IndiGrid), has signed a share purchase agreement for the acquisition of 100 per cent shareholding and economic interest, in one or more tranches,...
Read MoreREC Power Development and Consultancy Limited (RECPDCL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Indian central public sector undertaking REC Limited, has handed over the project-specific special purpose vehicle (SPV), Madhya Pradesh (MP)...
Read MoreThe government of Tripura, an Indian state in the north eastern region, has formed a separate entity for electricity transmission in the state to bring down the power sector’s aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C)...
Read MoreREC Power Development and Consultancy Limited (RECPDCL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Indian central public sector undertaking, REC Limited, has handed over the project-specific special purpose vehicle (SPV) WRSR Power...
Read MoreThe National transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) has proposed a PKR370 billion investment plan for system expansion and loss reduction over the 2023-25 period. NTDC has filed a petition with the National Electric Power...
Read MoreSalasar Techno Engineering Limited, an India-based conglomerate in the engineering and infrastructure industry, has secured its first international engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) order worth INR1.43 billion...
Read MoreJSW Renew Energy Five Limited, a step-down subsidiary of a major Indian private sector power company, JSW Energy Limited (JSWEL), has received letters of awards (LoA) for a total of 500 MW/1,000 MWh standalone battery energy...
Read MoreHigh voltage (HV) grid substations worth INR2.54 billion were recently inaugurated in the eastern Indian state of Odisha to boost its power transmission infrastructure. The substations were inaugurated at five locations –...
Read MoreIndia is close to signing a major agreement on renewable energy interconnections, with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The agreement would be under the One Sun, One World, One Grid (OSOWOG) initiative by a group of countries to...
Read MoreIndian state utility Assam Power Distribution Company Limited (APDCL) has signed an MoU with ONGC Tripura Power Company Limited (OTPC) to develop a battery energy storage system (BESS) with capacity of up to 250 MW/500 MWh. The...
Read MoreThe Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has sought approval from the Indian authorities to export 40-50 MW of electricity to Bangladesh through India’s existing transmission infrastructure. NEA and Bangladesh Power Development...
Read MorePakistan’s state-owned transmission utility, National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC), expects to complete the 500 kV Lahore North grid station by March 2024. The PKR24.7 billion project is being funded with a loan from...
Read MoreIndian private sector transmission company, Sterlite Power Transmission Limited (SPTL), has achieved financial closure for its Kishtwar Transmission Limited (KTL) project located in Jammu and Kashmir. Sterlite Power has...
Read MoreChina’s largest grid developer, State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), has successfully developed its first holographic digital power grid in the eastern province of Jiangsu, with integrated technologies like BeiDou satellites,...
Read MoreState-owned vertically integrated utility, Électricité du Laos (EDL), has launched a 500 kV transmission line and substation project to link Laos’ grid to that of Cambodia. As part of the project, over 200-km-long power...
Read MoreThe new Norwegian Climate Investment Fund, managed by Norfund which is the Norwegian investment fund for developing countries, together with KLP which is Norway’s largest pension company, has made the first investment of...
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