In Focus

Softbank Corporation and Mitsui & Company have signed a contract to build and operate a 40 megawatt solar power that will be Japan’s largest.

India’s Reliance Power Ltd and China Datang Corporation have entered into a strategic partnership to develop and operate power and energy projects in Indonesia.

Coal-rich Australia says it installed 785 megawatts of rooftop solar power in 2012, making it world leader in this category.

Forty five of 109 major Japanese companies said renewable energy can adequately replace nuclear power as sources of electricity in Japan.

China National Offshore Oil Corporation said its net profit for the first-half of the year fell 19% to RMB 32 billion.

Two reactors of the Madras Atomic Power Station are scheduled to be restared by end of August.

Thai villagers are blocking the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand from buying electricity to be generated by a hydropower dam being built in Laos.

Canada estimates that foreign investments in its booming energy sector could hit US$500 billion over the next decade.

The 260-MW Xekaman 3 hydropower plant in Laos will start operations in September and annually provide around 980 million kWh to Vietnam's power grid in Danang City.

China’s energy use per unit of GDP dipped only 2% last year compared to its goal of reducing its energy use by 16% by 2015.

Chinese investors expect to close one of the biggest investments by China in the U.S. power sector in September.

India's second biggest private oil refiner reported a US$252 million net loss in the June quarter from a US$84.3 million net profit year-on-year.

China's on-grid wind power capacity reached over 50 gigawatts helping its entire wind power sector to witness substantial growth.

The financing agreement for Bangladesh's Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant has been finalized with Russia.

This accounts for 71% of China's outbound direct investments from 2005 to 1H12.