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Electric power production drops in



Electric power production drops in Myanmar 

Xinhua, Yangon, 25 October 1999.   Electric power generated by the
state-run Myanma Electric Power Enterprise (MEPE), the main electricity
supplier of the country, totaled 1.979 billion kilowatt-hours (kwh) in the
first half of this year, a 12.82 percent drop compared with the same period
of last year which was 2.27 billion kwh.
Acording to the latest figures of the official economic indicators, the
installed capacity of the MEPE was
1,058 megawatts (mw) by the end of June this year. The figures also show
that in 1998, the MEPE
produced a total of 4.3 billion kwh of electricity. Other official
statistics indicate that the MEPE added a
total installed capacity of 509 mw in the past 11 years, of which natural
gas power plants represented
255 mw, while steam power plants took up 143 mw and hydro-electric power
plants 111 mw.
Meanwhile, Myanmar is implementing five more hydro-electric power plants
--Paunglaung, Zaungtu,
Mone, Thaphanseik and Maipan. Of them, Paunglaung, Mone and Thaphanseik are
being built by China. The
five power plants, upon completion, will add 407 mw more to Myanmar's
electric power installed
capacity and will ease the serious shortage problem of electricity in Myanmar. 

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