Two years after the military coup, power outages and power shortage have worsened in Yangon which has a population of about six million people.

However, the Yangon Electricity Supply Corporation (YESC) said that the recent power outage on 10 July was caused by the emergency repair of two compressors from the Yadana offshore gas pipeline.

A responsible official from YESC said that the electricity supply was disrupted temporarily when the two compressors of Yadana gas pipeline were out of order and now one of them has been repaired.

Under these circumstances long and frequent power outages may be experienced in most of the townships in Yangon Region, according to the official.

Myanmar has a plan to generate 14% of total installed capacity across the country using “Renewable Energy”. Currently the national power grid can only supply 55% of total electricity demand across the country and the Ministry of Electricity and Energy said that they were working to increase this to 75% of total demand by 2025.

A recent World Bank report said that power shortage, load shedding and imposing restrictions on business entities and foreign exchange were the factors hampering the economy in Myanmar.