In Focus

GE defended its Mark I containment system at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant against safety issues raised against it.

South Korea will continue its atomic energy buildup despite the nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan.

A hydrogen blast hit the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant’s No. 4 reactor, bringing the number of the complex's damaged reactors possibly to four. It has a total of six reactors.

The world's first 660-kilovolt direct current power transmission system start6ed operating in China. It transmitted energy from northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to the eastern Shandong Province.

India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy will draft a national geothermal energy policy by the end of March 2011.

China's nationwide electricity consumption is expected to rise nearly 12 percent to 4.7 trillion kilowatt-hours in 2011, reports cnr.cn, citing the China Electricity Council.

The Philippines has the most expensive electricity in the whole of Asia.

China will give the go-ahead to ten nuclear power projects during its 12th Five-Year Plan, ending 2015.

Power consumption in China totaled 4.19 trillion kilowatt hours in 2010. It represents aan increase of 14.56 percent year-on-year.

A third of the total foreign investment in Myanmar went into the hydropower sector during the first seven months of the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Hydropower also represented the second-largest investment sector.

The United States rejected Pakistan's request for funding its Bhasha dam.