India

The electricity crisis has prompted the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association to install their own power plants with a total capacity of 1,000 MW.

Neyveli Lignite Corporation is pursuing expeditious allocation of long term coal linkage worth 0.33 million tonnes of 'E' or 'F' grade coal.

India's Ministry of Power has rejected the standard bidding procedure suggested by the Planning Commission (PC) for public-private partnership in transmission projects.

India's private sector is expected to contribute nearly 36 percent of power sector capacity expansion in the 11th Five Year Plan, which ends 2012. It is also expected to provide over 50 percent in the next plan period. 'The private sector would contribute to nearly 36 percent of the capacity addition in the 11th Plan and over 50 percent of the capacity addition proposed for the 12th Plan. The private sector will bring in nearly 19,000 MW during the current plan,' said Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. Shinde further said the power generation equipment capacity at the state-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited will be increased to 20,000 MW in 2012 from 10,000 MW in 2007. 'Several new joint venture companies have been formed to manufacture supercritical boilers and turbine-generators for thermal power plants,' Shinde said. Shinde said the government has approved bulk tendering for 11 units of 660 MW power each. Another bulk tender for nine units of 800 MW each has also been approved. The full story is available at Yahoo News.

India has approved fund raising worth Rs 60,950 crore by companies through external commercial borrowing or foreign currency convertible bonds for infrastructure projects in the last two financial years.

The government of Bangladesh is looking for loans to fund power projects of a total capacity of 14,773 megawatts by 2015 due to dwindling foreign aid.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is on track to augment its manufacturing capacity to 20,000 MW per annum by March 2012 with its augmentattion programme.

The 12-year INR1.4 billion (US$30.6 million) loan will be utilised in constructing its 15MW plant project in Gujarat, India.

Sahara India Power and Korea East-West Power have entered into a pact for developing power plants, with a total capacity of 6,000 MW.

National Thermal Power Corp plans to construct a Rs100bn or $2.17 billion thermal power plant in Maharashtra.

Suzlon Energy has been tapped by Indian Oil to build, operate and maintain a 48.3MW wind facility in Andhra Pradesh.

The website caries here, an account of 47 thermal power plants (TPPs) that have exhibited more than 100 million units (MU) worth of shortfall vis-a-vis their targets during April - July, 2011.Various issues, such as low system demand, miscellaneous forced shortages, etc. have contributed to a cumulative shortfall of 11,970.8 million units (MU) in targeted power generation for 47 stations, worth combined capacity of 37,359.25 MW.   NTPC Limited was faced with low system demand at its 830 MW Dadri combined cycle power plant (CCPP), and 663 MW Auraiya CCPP; while the 2340 MW Kahalgaon TPS suffered from fuel shortages, reflected in maximum generation losses worth 1068 MU. Further, Talcher STPS, Udupi TPP, Peguthan CCPP and Jalipa Kupurdi TPS  recorded shortfalls of 567.94 MU, 465.95 MU, 450.86 MU and 390.03 MU respectively, among others.

India surpassed its energy generation target for July by 3,065 million units, generating 74,104 million MU during the month. The country also registered an impressive double digit growth rate of 12.49% over the electricity generated from the same period last year.

Karachi's water supply was reduced to half when pumping of water from the Dhabeji pumping station came to a halt due to a major power breakdown.

A 10-member delegation from Turkey comprising three experts from three prominent government organizations  arrived in Pakistan to assist in developing new energy projects.

Hydro projects worth in Nepal with a total capacity of 2,007 MW capacity are in the pipeline.