Category: Cambodia

Cambodia moves to reduce hydropower reliance with $830m electricity projects The country faced shortages in 2019 due to droughts and low water levels. Cambodia has signalled its intention to shift away from hydropower to meet its electricity demands, with its latest 10-year development plan focused on coal and solar PV as sources of new generation […]

Cambodia chooses coal in rush for power – government approves two more coal power plants Critics say the government’s approval of two more coal power plants bucks the trend towards renewables in Southeast Asia. From the top of a low hill, farmer Pich Sophat points to an area scarred by excavators. Remnants of a house […]

Cambodia’s $400 million transmission line to bring in Laos, Thailand power The construction of a combined more-than $400 million power transmission line connecting Cambodia to Laos and the Thai border will start next year, according to an official from the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME). The government through the Council of Ministers approved a […]

Cambodia’s Sihanouk airport upgrades runway, Flights to begin before end of 2020 Sihanouk International Airport, serving Cambodia’s main seaside resort and port city, has entered a new development phase. The runway has had an extension from 2,500 metres to 3,300 metres. In the last five years, Sihanoukville has become a destination in the making with […]

Solar power looking sunny in Cambodia Around 372 megawatts (mW) of additional solar farmland will be put into operation in 2021, which makes up 9 percent of power in the country and 14 percent of the total installed capacity and peak demand respectively, according to data from Electricite du Cambodge (EdC). EdC also added that […]

Wärtsilä signs 5-year maintenance deal for 200MW Cambodian power plant close to Phnom Penh Technology company Wärtsilä has signed a five-year power plant maintenance agreement covering the Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) C7 power plant, located close to Phnom Penh in Cambodia. The agreement is with SchneiTec, the company responsible for the maintenance of the power […]

Completion of a tourism port and terminal under construction in Cambodia’s coastal Kampot province will be delayed until late 2021 Completion of a tourism port and terminal under construction in Cambodia’s coastal Kampot province will be delayed until late 2021 according to government news agency reports. Construction has lagged behind schedule with just 30% of […]

Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey solar-energy project awarded The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on Tuesday approved Thai-owned Ray Power Supply Co Ltd’s $39.8 million 30MW solar-energy project in the Kingdom’s far northwestern province of Banteay Meanchey. Located in Chhnuor Meanchey commune in the province’s southeastern Preah Net Preah district, the site is around 55km […]