News

Massive Power Outage Triggered by Falling Tree

24 May 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Economy and commerce / Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Renewable energy production / Trade
EdC / Ḗlectricité du Viet Nam / Electricity / Electricity blackouts / Electricity of Cambodia / electricity shortage / electricity supply / Eletricite du Cambodge / EVN / national electricity grid / Phnom Penh / power lines / Southern Power Corporation / Than Nien / Than Nien newspaper / Tourism / Vietnam Electricity Group / water / water shortage

A massive power outage that left large areas of Phnom Penh without electricity and water and plunged southern Vietnam into darkness on Wednesday was caused by a crane operator knocking a tree onto a high voltage power line, Vietnam’s state-owned energy provider said yesterday. “A ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/massive-power-outage-triggered-by-falling-tree-26557/

CPP Senator Wins Power Transmission Contract

13 May 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Economy and commerce / Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Renewable energy production
coal / coal-fired power plants / Council of Ministers / CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat / Dams / Electricity / electricity grid / government contract / hydropower / Hydropower dams / KK Power Company / Koh Kong / Kompong Cham / kratie / Ly Yong Phat / LYP Group / LYP Group Co. Ltd. / Mondulkiri / national electricity grid / national grid / Phnom Penh / power lines / power plants / Power Transmission / Power transmission lines / power transmission network / power transmission systems / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Ratanakkiri / Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Public Company / Stung Treng / Thailand

The government on Friday awarded CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat a $92.21 million contract to install power lines in Cambodia’s eastern provinces, the Council of Ministers said in a statement. During the weekly Cabinet meeting, senior officials including Prime Minister Hun Sen signed off on the ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cpp-senator-wins-power-transmission-contract-23634/

Work underway on 'catastrophic' Cambodian dam

10 May 2013
DW
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
3S network / 3S rivers / Ame Trandem / Ame Trandem program director International Rivers / Electricity / electricity grid / electricity shortages / Eric Baran / Fish / fish yields / fisheries / food security / hydroelectric dams / Hydropower dams / Hyrdopower / Infrastructure / International Rivers / irrigation / Lower Mekong Basin / Lower Se San 2 Dam / Lower Sesan 2 dam / Mekong river / migratory fish / Mine and Energy Suy Sem / Minister of Industry / national electricity grid / PANAS / PANAS Report / relocation sites / Se Kong River / Se San River / sediment flows / Sesan river / Srekor / Srekor village / Srepok River / Suy Sem / tributary dams / tributary rivers / UN Millennium Development Goals / US journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences / US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton / WorldFish / WorldFish senior researcher Eric Baran

Srekor village has stood on the banks of the Se San River in northeastern Cambodia for generations. In a few years it will be gone, submerged along with more than 300 square kilometres of surrounding farmland and forest. For 37-year-old rice farmer Pa Tou, the ...

http://www.dw.de/work-underway-on-catastrophic-cambodian-dam/a-16803423

Fired up

27 August 2012
Economics Today
Economy and commerce / Energy / Energy policy and administration / Environment and natural resources / Exports / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Generation and distribution facilities / Labor / Land / Logging and timber / Trade
Economic Development / Electricity / energy / Forests / Fuel / Garment factories / garment sector / ILO / International Labor Organization / national electricity grid / Wood / wood logging

After a day sewing, treating fabrics and ironing, workers steam out of the Maurea Garment Factory in a suburb of Phnom Penh. Unilke some other factories, this one doesn’t have to deal with work slowdowns due to electricity outages of high monthly energy bills since ...

Ask Question
Report Problem
Share Idea
Send Feedback
Submit Resources

Do you have questions on the content published by Open Development Cambodia (ODC)? We will gladly help you.

Have you found a technical problem or issue on the Open Development Cambodia (ODC) website?

Tell us how we're doing.

Do you have resources that could help expand the Open Development Cambodia (ODC) website? We will review any map data, laws, articles, and documents that we do not yet have and see if we can implement them into our site. Please make sure the resources are in the public domain or fall under a Creative Commons license.

View | Delete

File was deleted

ERROR!

Please add the code:

* The idea box couldn't be blank! * The email address is not valid! Something's gone wrong, Please Resubmit the form! Please add the code correctly first.

News

Massive Power Outage Triggered by Falling Tree

CPP Senator Wins Power Transmission Contract

Work underway on 'catastrophic' Cambodian dam

Fired up

Contact us

Thank you for taking the time to get in contact!