The PNG Electrification Global Information System has been created by the United States Agency for International Development. Off-grid energy providers can use the Electrification Global Information System (GIS) platform to find prospective mini-grid locations and regions for selling stand-alone solar goods. Sean Callahan, USAID's Deputy Mission Dir...
Through the rural electrification on grid initiative, more over 56,000 people in Rigo, particularly in Hula communities in the Central Province, now have access to power. The project was successfully completed thanks to the New Zealand Government and PNG Power Limited. The overall cost of this project, according to Rigo MP Lekwa Gure, is $9 million ...
As the new National Energy Authority (NEA) develops from strength to strength within a year of its inception, structural changes to boost energy output and tap into Papua New Guinea's alternative power-generation sources continue. Hon. Saki Soloma gave the country an update on the NEA's work since its two enabling legislation, the National Energy Act 2...
For development on the Rouna 3 hydropower project in Central, the Japanese government has awarded a K15.6 million grant. Soroi Eoe, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, thanked Japanese Ambassador Nobuyuki Watanabe for the money in Port Moresby. The K15.6 million donation, according to Ambassador Watanabe, was authorized by the J...
Landowners in Warangoi, Pomio, East New Britain, have been informed that they would be paid K5 million for the use of their land and water for the Warangoi Hydro Power Project by James Marape. In Parliament, he provided this guarantee to Pomio MP, Hon. Elias Kapavore, who had inquired about the payment schedule. PM Marape promised landowners that th...
Prime Minister James Marape has been told that Papua New Guinea has "the potential to become a large supplier of green products for the globe," with 19 gigawatts of electricity already estimated from the Purari, Kikori, and Strickland hydro potentials, as well as the West New Britain geothermal projects. Julie Suttleworth, the CEO of green energy produ...
Photo credit: PNG PM Media - Papua New Guinea's State Enterprises Minister, Sasindran Muthuvel (left), Prime Minister James Marape (centre) and the chairman of Fortescue Metals Group of Australia, Andrew Forrest, sign an agreement, Port Moresby, 1st September 2020. PRIME Minister Hon. James Marape has once more defended the signing of the agreements wi...
Photo credit: PM Marape News Page - Warangoi project Prime Minister Hon. James Marape recently opened the K83 million 10 Megawatt Warangoi PNG Power Ltd (PPL) Hydro Power Project Major Rehabilitation Project in rural Pomio, East New Britain, with an assurance to landowners that they would be paid the K5 million they wanted for use of their land and wat...
Photo credit: Loop PNG PNG Power is riddled with so much accumulative problems that have made it a “sick organisation”, but reforms are currently underway, Prime Minister Hon. James Marape says. These include the installation of its full board, and a restructure of the company to separate power generation, transmission, and retail business. In ad...
According to Julie Shuttleworth, chief executive officer of Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), the company is working with the government to accelerate the energy transition before 2050. “The FFI is partnering with PNG, one of the most renewable energy-rich countries in the world, to develop multiple large-scale green energy and green hydrogen projects...
Photo Credit: PNG Buzz / Papua New Guinea's State Enterprises Minister, Sasindran Muthuvel (left), Prime Minister James Marape (centre) and the chairman of Fortescue Metals Group of Australia, Andrew Forrest, sign an agreement in Port Moresby back in September 2020. PRIME Minister Hon. James Marape, MP says Papua New Guinea’s partnership with Dr. Andre...
Photo credit: Fortescue Future Industries Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) is partnering with Papua New Guinea (PNG), one of the most renewable energy-rich countries in the world, to develop multiple large-scale green energy and green hydrogen projects. FFI’s Papua New Guinea Fortescue Future Industries Ltd, and the State of Papua New Guinea today ...
Photo credit: Autonomous Bougainville Government Communities in Buka and Arawa will soon see improved access to stable, clean and sustainable electricity. This follows the announcement of upgrades to the PNG Power electricity grids in Buka and Arawa yesterday. Australian High Commissioner to PNG Jon Philp officially announced this support packag...
The 100 per cent national owned Independent Electricity Producer, Dirio Gas and Power Limited and PNG Power Limited, has announced that it would begin delivering power into the Port Moresby grid at the end of this month. Dirio and PNG Power directors inked an agreement that allows Dirio to deliver power to the PNG Power system in Port Moresby. In No...
Dirio has completed its first power project in Caution Bay, near the PNGLNG Plant Site, which is expected to be operational later this month. PPL needed to modernize its transmission and substation infrastructure, which took a lengthy time. Governor Undialu advised landowners not to trust Facebook zealots who only know how to write beautiful English and h...
Minister for Forestry Walter Schnaubelt stated that discussions on renewable energy transitions and financial access alternatives for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are critical for PNG. Schnaubelt was speaking at the World Expo 2020 in Dubai when the Energy Transition Accelerator funding platform was launched. He stated that Papua New Guinea...
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