Ecogreen Energy appoints Vishal Gupta as new chief executive officer
Ecogreen Energy, a subsidiary of Singapore listed CJE group, the global leaders in waste management and waste-to-energy sector, has appointed Vishal Gupta as the Chief Executive Officer. The decision of the management change came during the board meeting held recently. He will be incharge of the day-to-day leadership of the Company and will also join […]
Hoping to take a bite at the RM2 billion solar pie
COMPANIES involved in generating electricity from sunlight will be back in action soon as the country’s much-anticipated, mouth-watering large-scale solar (LSS) programme will resume with a new round of open tender next year. In a move to increase Malaysia’s power generation from renewable sources, the government recently announced that RM2 billion worth of projects under […]
S’wak set to achieve 97 pct electricity coverage by 2020
KUCHING: Sarawak is well on its way to achieve 97 per cent electricity coverage by 2020 with the RM2.37 billion special allocation in the State Budget 2019. In pointing this out, Assistant Minister of Rural Electricity Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Junaidi said the electricity coverage in Sarawak currently stood at 91 per cent. “About nine […]
Solar Philippines House Bill passes final reading in Congress
House Bill 8179 granting private firm Solar Philippines a 25-year PV mini-grid and transmission franchise across the Philippines passed through its third and final reading on Monday. This procedural step allows the company’s unit Solar Para Sa Bayan (SPSB) to set up these mini-grids undeterred by the incumbent franchises of rural electric cooperatives. The chamber approved […]
Competition watchdog clears Kepco’s buy into Solar Philippines unit
December 11 (Renewables Now) – The Philippines Competition Commission (PCC) has given the green light to Kepco Philippines Holdings’ acquisition of a 38% stake in Solar Philippines Calatagan Corp (SPCC), a unit of Solar Philippines. The acquisition will mark the entry of Kepco Philippines, which is a unit of Korea Electric Power Corp (KRX:015760), into […]
DOST revives plan to activate BNPP
The Department of Science and Technology and its attached agency―the mothballed Philippine Nuclear Research Institute―want the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant commissioned because of a looming depletion of gas from the Malampaya gas field in Palawan. BACK ONLINE? A general view shows the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant as pictured on Sept. 16, 2016. At the time, […]
Egat faces competition in bids to operate large power plants
Thailand’s power-generating capacity will be deregulated in the near future, meaning the state-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) must compete with private firms at auctions for new large power plants, according to the tentative national power development plan (PDP). The latest version of the PDP is envisioned as the long-term development plan for the […]
Power plan ‘a setback for sustainable energy’
ENVIRONMENTAL watchdog Greenpeace has called Thailand’s Power Development Plan 2018 (PDP) “sugar-coated” despite its embrace of more renewable energy, saying it still hinders efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The Energy Policy and Planning Office (EPPO), which drafted the PDP, affirmed at public hearings last week that it had removed plans for the Krabi and Thepa […]
