Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd., in partnership with Frontier Group of Companies, has acquired the Mountain Creek power plant in Texas from a consortium of financial investors. The transaction’s details remain undisclosed, highlighting a significant strategic move for both companies in the North American energy market. Located near Dallas, the 808MW steam turbine gas-fired power plant […]
Sarda Energy & Minerals has secured clearance for starting commercial operations of unit 1 of the 113MW Rongnichu hydro electric plant in Sikkim, India. The clearance was granted to the company’s subsidiary – Madhya Bharat Power Corporation Limited for the 56.5MW unit under Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (Indian Electricity Grid Code) Regulations, 2016. It comes […]
Phillips Carbon Black, an Indian carbon black manufacturer, said that it has commissioned an 8MW power plant in Mundra, Gujarat. The new power plant in Mundra adds to the 76MW of power produced by the company’s cogeneration plants built across its manufacturing units. Phillips Carbon Black has four plants at Durgapur in West Bengal, Kochi […]
GE Renewable Energy secured a rehabilitation contract from the Angat Hydropower Corporation for the 218MW Angat hydropower plant in the Philippines. The 53-year-old Angat hydroelectric power plant was built along the Angat River in San Lorenzo in the Bulacan province about 58 km northeast of Metro Manila. As per the contract, GE Renewable Energy will […]
Advanced Power has started construction on the 1,182MW South Field Energy project in Ohio, which is the second natural gas-fired plant for the company in the northeastern part of the US state after the 700MW Carroll County Energy, which was commissioned in late 2017. South Field Energy project location The South Field Energy project is […]
Duke Energy has officially inaugurated the 1,640MW Citrus County power plant in Florida, which has been built with an investment of $1.5 billion. Citrus County power plant The gas-fired combined cycle Citrus County power station was fully commissioned in late 2019 after the second unit was placed into operations. The first unit of the Citrus […]
Siemens has received an order from Bayat Power, a subsidiary of Bayat Group, to supply a 41MW SGT-A45 mobile unit for the Bayat-1 power plant – the first gas-fired plant built in Afghanistan since the 1970s. Bayat-1 power plant According to the German conglomerate, a complete gas-fired power plant, centered on the SGT-A45 trailer-mounted unit, […]
India Bangladesh power project : Anil Ambani’s Reliance Power has wrapped up agreements related to the first phase of its 3GW LNG-fired power project in Bangladesh, which would cost around Rs 6,500 crore ($1 billion). As part of the first phase of the Bangladesh power project, Reliance Power will build a combined cycle gas-fired power […]
Energy Industry News : A small 1.5MW small hydropower plant built at a cost of Rs 17 crore ($2.6 million) has been commissioned in Biaras Drass in Kargil district in the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir, the first project to go on line under the Ladakh Renewable Energy Initiative of the Prime Minister. Developed […]