India

Schott Solar has signed a contract with Premier Solar, India, to deliver 200,000 Schott ASI photovoltaic modules.

Moser Baer selected First Solar to supply 25MW DC of advanced thin-film modules for its solar power generation projects in India.

A US$370 million contract was signed by Marubeni with Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh.

India's installed power generation capacity of the country has surged to 1,70,228.86 MW.

Against a coal import target of 35 million tonnes for the current fiscal, the power utilities have imported 18.144 MT as of January 2010.

A cumulative growth of 5.04% in Indian energy generation was recorded during the first 10 months of the financial year 2010-11.

NTPC sought another six month-extension to comply with the gas supply agreement for stage II of the Rajiv Gandhi combined cycle power plan.

Lanco Infratech plans to build a manufacturing facility in Rajnandgaon, India to produce purified silicon, cells modules and polysilicon.

India’s power ministry is yet to approve the handover of the 2,000 MW Subansiri Upper HEP to KSK Energy Ventures Limited. The project is set for implementation on a build-own-operate-transfer basis.

Monnet Power Company plans to invest around US$724 million to augment the power generation capacity of its power plant project at Angul.

Sri Lanka's Ministry of Power and Energy has organized a series of programs to educate the general public on the Energy Conservation Strategies.

The first phase of the 900 MW capacity Coal Power plant at Puttalam has been completed.

The Uttar Pradesh government has proposed budgetary provisions of US$1.8 billion towards various projects in the power sector during the fiscal 2011-12. Finance Minister Lalji Verma stated this while presenting the state budget for year 2011-12 here today in the state assembly. Out of this amount, US$278.9 million has been earmarked for augmenting the generation capacity in the state. An amount of US$44 million has been proposed to be kept aside for thermal power project being set up at Ghatampur, Kanpur in a joint collaboration with Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited. By the end of 11th Five Year Plan, the state hopes to get 2000 MW from the state-run projects, 2130 MW from the private sector, 450 MW from MoU route projects and 1571 MW from various projects being implemented by the central agencies, the Minister told the House. Presently, the state was not in a comfortable position as far as the power sector is concerned and a huge gap exists between demand and supply.

The shutdown of five units of NTPC’s thermal power plant at Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district started a power crisis in Bihar.

The construction of the 1,000MW Sagardighi thermal plant in West Bengal, India, is expected to commence in two months.

WAPDA received a $20 million grant from the USAID  for the construction of the Gomal Zam Dam project. It is the first tranche of payment