Category: Cambodia

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 […]

Cambodia’s Koh Rong Sanloem island ready to build first solar power station Work on a new solar power station is set to start next month on Koh Rong Sanloem Island. The 1.25 megawatt (Mw) solar power project that was signed off this year will be constructed as two standalone solar based micro-grids that can provide […]