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    Burma targets doubling electricity capacity by 2021 to fill power shortages
    January 31, 2018in Archives, Electricity, Energy, Lead Story, News835by REUTERS
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    Burma targets doubling electricity capacity by 2021 to fill power shortages

    Burma is planning to double its electric power capacity by 2021 by building natural gas-fired power plants, two senior officials say, in an ambitious move to tackle chronic power shortages…

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    Coal in the spotlight as Suu Kyi govt ponders energy policy
    July 12, 2017in Electricity, Energy, Lead Story, Natural resources, News367by REUTERS
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    Coal in the spotlight as Suu Kyi govt ponders energy policy

    Coal would be one of the quickest ways to ramp up power generation, but the option is unpopular in Burma.

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    Northwest Rangoon braces for 30-hour power cut
    June 14, 2017in Electricity, Lead Story, News, Rangoon682by DVB
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    Northwest Rangoon braces for 30-hour power cut

    Burma is currently implementing a 15-year World Bank plan to bring electricity to more than seven million households by 2030.

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    Power plant fuelled by rubbish comes online in Rangoon
    April 7, 2017in Electricity, Environment, Lead Story, News419by SU SU THWE
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    Power plant fuelled by rubbish comes online in Rangoon

    Rangoon’s first power plant to turn waste into energy was christened in the commercial capital on Friday.

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    Rural Burma still lit by candles, kerosene and batteries
    March 29, 2017in Electricity, Feature, Lead Story, News216by THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
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    Rural Burma still lit by candles, kerosene and batteries

    Generators are expensive. Pact says one hour of diesel power in rural Burma costs roughly the same as 24 hours of power in Rangoon.

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    Protesters rail against hydropower as sectoral workshop held in Myitkyina
    January 31, 2017in Electricity, Kachin, Lead Story, News14by NAW NOREEN / DVB
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    Protesters rail against hydropower as sectoral workshop held in Myitkyina

    Activists and members of the public in Myitkyina staged a protest on Tuesday against hydroelectric dam proposals as a workshop was being held in the Kachin State capital to discuss…

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