India

The world’s biggest coal miner faces the ironic situation of having to import coal because consumption is running out of control.

Toshiba JSW Turbine and Generator will supply equipment for the Kudgi Super Thermal Power Project, Stage-I, in Karnataka, India.

A petition was made to redesign all running, under construction and proposed tunnel-based hydropower projects in India.

Rajahastan has invited bidders for setting up fifty 1 MW solar power plants in the state.

India's power minister assured Bangladesh that consultation will be undertaken with the Ministry of External Affairs before construction of the Tipaimukh hydroelectric project.

The Karachi Electric Supply Company will convert its 1,260 MW Bin Qasim Power Plant into a coal-fired generation plant.

City dwellers in Bangladesh will experience load-shedding in summer due to insufficient electricity to support irrigation pumps across the country.

The Arunachal Pradesh government has favored the accordance of clearance to the 1,750 MW Demwe Lower hydro electric project (HEP), despite serious concerns raised by Dr. Asad Rahmani, a member of the special team constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), over the possible impact of the project on biodiversity and area downstream.  8Both team members, namely-- Asad Rahmani, Director of the Bombay Natural History Society and Pratap Singh, Arunachal Pradesh chief conservator of forest (wildlife) have submitted separate contrasting reports on the feasibility of the project after conducting a site inspection study.  8In response to Rahmani's report, the representatives of the state government have clearly stated that the impact of the water level variation due to the Demwe Lower HEP peaking, on the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park (DNP), is hypothetical and alarmist in nature. 8In support of this claim, they have highlighted the fact that the WAPCOS simulation study has not indicated any adverse impact on DNP due to its distance of 100 km from the dam site. Further, the flow at all times remains below the lowest point of the national park and there is no grassland within the adjoining river bank that would be affected.

For the first time in Bangladesh, BPDB is implementing a pilot project of 0.90 MW capacity of the Grid Connected Wind Energy in the Muhuri Dam areas.

Kerala Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, seeks concessional naphtha to power its 360 MW NTPC's plant at Kayamkulam.

India's existing power companies are opposing gas allocation to mushrooming power capacities.

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission has exempted small and medium industries from paying power factor correction charge.

The Chandpur 150 Megawatt gas fired Power Plant Project is expected to be copmpleted by June, 2012, with the rapid progress of its contruction.

NTPC Ltd will award US$3.3 billion equipment order by March after the Supreme Court ruled in its favor.