ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ လွ်ပ္စစ္ဓာတ္အားေပးစက္ရံု ႏွစ္ရံုတည္ေဆာက္ဖုိ႕ စီစဥ္ေနေၾကာင္း အမွတ္(၂) လွ်ပ္စစ္စြမ္းအား ဝန္ႀကီးဌာန ဒုတိယဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္သန္းဦးက ေျပာပါတယ္။ သူက ‘ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတ ကိုယ္တုိင္ ဂ်ပန္သြားတုန္းက J Power (Japanese Power) လုိ႔ေခၚတဲ့ ေက်ာက္မီးေသြးစက္ရုံကို သြားေလ့လာပါတယ္၊ J Power စက္ရုံနဲ႔ ညိႇထားၿပီးပါၿပီ၊ ၆၀၀ မဂၢါဝပ္ရွိတဲ့စက္ရံု (ေက်ာက္မီးေသြး ဓာတ္အားေပးစက္ရံု) ကို ရန္ကုန္ အနီးတစ္ဝုိက္မွာ တည္ဖုိ႔ လုပ္ထားပါတယ္၊ အလားတူပဲ ကိုရီးယားႏုိင္ငံက ကုမၸဏီနဲ႔လဲ ၅၀၀ မဂၢါဝပ္ရွိတဲ့ ဓာတ္ေငြ႕တာဘိုင္စက္ရံု သာေကတမွာ တည္မယ္’ လုိ႔ေျပာပါတယ္။ ေရအားလွ်ပ္စစ္ဓာတ္အားေပးစက္ရံုအမ်ားစုဟာမႏၲေလးအနီးတစ္ဝိုက္နဲ႔ ျမန္မာျပည္   ေျမာက္ပိုင္းမွာပဲရွိတယ္။အဲသည္ကရတဲ့ဓာတ္အားေတြကို ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ေတာင္ပိုင္းေဒသေတြကို ျဖန္႔ျဖဴးတဲ့အခါ ၿမိဳ႕ေတြအကုန္ ျဖတ္သံုးရတဲ့အတြက္ ဗုိ႕အား ေလလြင့္မႈေတြ ရွိေနတယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာျပခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္ ေမလ ၂၅ ရက္ေန႔ထုတ္ ေမာ္ဒန္ ဂ်ာနယ္တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါသည္။

The companies with which Myanmar's ministry of electric power will cooperate in building power plants are General Electric Co. and Caterpillar Co. of the US, J Power Co. of Japan and BKB Co. of South Korea, Xinhua reported citing the New Light of Myanmar daily, published by the country's interior ministry.

The report did not disclose which projects will be implemented with the US companies.

It said a 600 MW coal-fired power plant near Yangon will be built on a joint venture with the Japanese firm, while another 500 MW gas-fired power plant will be carried out in collaboration with the South Korean company.

Currently, there are 18 hydropower, one coal-fired and 10 gas-fired power stations -- totalling 29 -- in Myanmar, which generate a maximum of 1,610 MW in the monsoon season and 1,340 MW in summer.

Consumption in monsoon is 1,560 MW, less than the production and is enough for distribution, but it is 1,850 MW in summer, far exceeding the production, the ministry said.

The power shortage in summer has forced "alternative distribution" to the public, factories, workshops and businesses in three groups, at an interval of six hours.

IANS