Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB), Malaysia’s national power producer, and the country’s state oil company, Petronas will invest MYR2bn (US$657m) in the construction of a gas plant and LNG terminal in Borneo islands.
While Zambia is expected to experience a tight power situation in the next four years, by 2016, the country is forecast to have a power surplus of around 600MW. This should ease the electricity deficit facing southern Africa.
Alfa Laval has won a SEK230m order from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd to supply Alfa Laval Aalborg Exhaust Gas Economisers to vessels built for AP Moller-Maersk.
Czech power group CEZ has renewed talks with Czech Coal over supplies as well as considering the sale of Pocerady and Chvaletice power plants.
Ukraine increased the volume of exported electricity by 2200GWh or 52.5% last year compared to 2010.
A plan is announced to lay the world’s longest subsea power cable, linking Europe and Asia.
One of Russia’s most efficient and modern combined-cycle power stations, located at Shatura about 150km east of Moscow, recently completed its first year of operation and has set new output and efficiency standards for the site.
As milder weather pushed domestic power consumption down in France and Germany decided to shutdown seven nuclear reactors, French net power exports nearly doubled in 2011 to 55.7TWh.
Already under pressure from mild weather and the economic slowdown, the UK’s short-term power prices could slide further in 2012 as nearly 3.5GW of net production capacity comes online.
Wärtsilä has been awarded two contracts to supply power plant generating equipment to Bangladesh.
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