Electricity production

Renewable energy production

Parliament approves power projects

The National Assembly yesterday unanimously approved plans by SPHP (Cambodia) to invest in a new hydroelectric dam in Pursat province, as well as plans by Schnei Tech to build solar farms in Pursat and Kampong Chhnang province. Since power cuts began in March across the ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50619937/parliament-approves-power-projects/

Hydrodam, solar power stations are approved

The government last week approved the construction of a hydroelectric dam and supplemental solar power stations with a total electrical capacity of 220MW, as the Kingdom continues battling a national electricity shortage. According to Prime Minister Hun Sen, Cambodia is currently facing a 400MW power ...

Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hydrodam-solar-power-stations-are-approved

Gov’t to buy power from companies

In a bid to end ongoing blackouts across the country, the government is planning to buy power from the private sector to supply households. The country is now experiencing daily power cuts as a result of extremely hot and dry weather. The seven hydropower dams ...

Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50589834/govt-to-buy-power-from-companies/

Kampong Speu solar farm to start generating energy in April

Amid a dry spell that has led to power cuts across the Kingdom, Electricite du Cambodge announced last week that a 60-megawatt solar power park in Kampong Speu province will start generating power next month, roughly four months ahead of schedule. The solar farm will ...

Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50588011/kampong-speu-solar-farm-to-start-generating-energy-in-april/?fbclid=IwAR1uVQELbeOJOtc3A2hN3mCEZSfm7LXvdr6vEBJ54vu67LyV1v5zH8v28W8

Cambodia has wind energy potential – study

France-based Blue Circle has finished a feasibility study for a project to build wind turbines in the Kingdom, with results indicating investment should ensue. The results of the study were presented during a meeting on Monday between company representatives and Suy Sem, the Minister of ...

Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50585976/cambodia-has-wind-energy-potential-study/

Biggest solar project yet gets half billion in funding

The Gideon Group, a US-based global finance firm, yesterday announced its intention to invest $488 million in a 135-megawatt solar plant in Kandal province. In a statement issued yesterday, Gideon Group president and CEO Salman Khan said the Kandal solar project is being developed by ...

Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50573860/biggest-solar-project-yet-gets-half-billion-in-funding/

Solar power plant set for 2019

A solar power plant worth more than $58 million, which is under construction in Kampong Speu province, will start installing 200,000 solar modules in January next year and begin operating late next year, said solar panel supplier JinkoSolar Holding Co Ltd. ...

Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/solar-power-plant-set-2019

Cambodia to boost clean energy use—but coal plants planned too

Cambodia will push ahead with plans to use hydropower and coal to electrify the entire country by 2020, but solar energy will play some role, especially in remote areas, an energy ministry official said on Wednesday. The Southeast Asian nation has electrified rapidly since 2000, ...

Jared Ferrie
http://news.trust.org/item/20181107114203-3nzlo/

Solar panel joint venture coming to K Speu

The production of more than $58 million worth of 60-megawatt solar-panels has begun in Kampong Speu province after the project was approved in May by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), provincial governor Vy Samnang said. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/solar-panel-joint-venture-coming-k-speu

Massive solar farm planned by US firm

US-based solar energy developer Omni Navitas announced a plan to set up a $500 million, 150-megawatt solar energy farm in Cambodia, which CEO Jim McAuliffe said would make it the largest solar farm in Southeast Asia by capacity. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/massive-solar-farm-planned-us-firm

New solar and wind power project unveiled

Officials from the Ministry of Mines and Energy have announced a new project that will provide a boost to the local renewable energy sector by electrifying three key provinces with the use of small-scale solar and wind power devices. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098012/new-solar-wind-power-project-unveiled/

Testing the winds in Cambodia’s energy sector

A new study on wind energy and its potential to diversify Cambodia’s energy sector is now being conducted, with results expected for mid next year, according to a representative of the Ministry of Mines and Energy. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5093692/testing-winds-cambodias-energy-sector/

Solar, wind advances offer Mekong countries alternatives to dams, coal: experts

Mekong Region countries like Cambodia should reconsider their plans to expand hydropower dams and coal plants, as the costs of alternative energy sources, such as solar power, are rapidly falling, a U.S. think-tank said, while improved regional grid connections can also ease growing energy demand. ...

Nem Sopheakpanha, Seourn Vathana, and Sun Narin
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/solar-wind-advances-offer-mekong-countries-alternatives-to-dams-coal-experts/4045082.html

$400m solar project launched

Global Purify Power (GPP), a joint venture behind $400 million worth of solar powered projects, started groundbreaking work on Friday with more than $10 million worth of investment in Kampong Speu province. ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5082184/400m-solar-project-launched/

Solar lights up Cambodia’s villages

Solar home systems are an appropriate solution to provide affordable, reliable and clean electricity in rural Cambodia, and the Green Microfinance Programme assists villagers to take out loans to purchase them. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080936/solar-lights-cambodias-villages/

Life in the dark amid broken power promises

In Svay Rieng province’s Bati commune, electricity poles and wires sprung up five years ago in Thnanh village but power still has not run through them, leaving villagers reliant upon batteries and most recently, solar panels. ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079925/life-dark-amid-broken-power-promises/

Solar power set to shine in Bavet

Cambodia’s first large-scale solar power project is still in the trial testing stage, but is expected to be fully operational at the end of this month. ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079197/solar-power-set-shine-bavet/

PM seeks hydropower deal with Thailand

The government is to ask Thailand for help to build a hydropower plant in the border province of Koh Kong. ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5076787/pm-seeks-hydropower-deal-thailand/

Prospects bright for solar in Kep

The Ministry of Environment has announced its support for a new 10-megawatt solar power development project in the coastal province of Kep to be spearheaded by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), a South Korea-based organisation set up by the UN in 2012 to chart ...

Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prospects-bright-solar-kep

ADB funds solar project

Cambodians will soon have access to more affordable power if the agreement signed on Monday between Electricite Du Cambodge (EDC) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to set up a 100 megawatt national solar park programme goes according to plan.   ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39750/adb-funds-solar-project/

Solar plant poised to boost grid

Singapore-based Sunseap’s solar farm, the country’s first renewable power facility which has a contract to feed 10MW to the national grid, is set to start generating in August, officials say. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39540/solar-plant-poised-to-boost-grid/

Renewables start to gain traction

Solar power is slowly gaining momentum in Cambodia as a viable source of electricity for the country’s growing energy needs, though stakeholders are anxious to see a real government commitment to establish a beneficial regulatory framework. ...

Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/renewables-start-gain-traction

ADB gives Kingdom $9.2M loan for solar farm

The Asia Development Bank (ADB) announced yesterday that it will provide a $9.2 million loan to Singapore-based energy provider Sunseap Group for the construction of Cambodia’s first large-scale solar farm. ...

Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-gives-kingdom-92m-loan-solar-farm

ADB gets behind solar project

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has financially backed Singapore’s Sunseap Group’s project to build Cambodia’s first large-scale solar power project under a long-term agreement with the state-run energy utility Electricite Du Cambodge.​ ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37758/adb-gets-behind-solar-project/

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