India

BHEL will supply power equipment for setting up the 1,980 Mw thermal power project at Lalitpur in Uttar Pradesh. The deal worth Rs 5,450 crore came from a Bajaj group company.

Dozens of hilly villages in Borkal under the Rangamati district will now get electricity generated by a small hydroelectric power plant.

KEC International has bagged three orders from Power Grid Corporation of India worth US$50.4 million, and one order from state utility Aptransco, valued US$18.9 million. In international markets, KEC International has received orders from Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the US and Brazil, worth US$86.8 million.

A sub station would link about 30 kilometers grid interconnection between Bangladesh and India to import 500MW electricity by 2012.

BPDB formed a three-member committee to look into the explosion at Raozan Power Plant in Chittagong.

Ex-Im Bank of the US became the first international financing institution to support PV projects under India's National Solar Mission and the State of Gujarat's Solar Power Policy.

Bangladesh will add another 800 megawatts of rental power to the national grid within the next two months.

ABB has won a deal to build a $900 million ultrahigh-voltage transmission system for Power Grid Corporation of India's north-east Agra transmission project.

Neyveli Lignite Corporation’s US$69.8 million wind power project in Tamil Nadu will be commissioned by early next year. The 50 WM wind farm project will go on steam by 31 March, 31 2012, according to the coal ministry.

Nepal will launch new power projects and purchase more electricity from India to address the power crisis within the next five years.

Finnish company Moventas wants harness India's economic potential by setting up a base in Chennai.

The North-West Power Generation Company is set to install 810 MW power project in the northwestern part of Bangladesh.

 The Summit Narayanganj power plant is now supplying electricity to the national grid.

BHEL in consortium with ABB won a US$353 million transmission link order from Power Grid Corporation of India Limited.

NTPC has signed power purchase agreements with West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Sikkim and Jharkhand. The power to be sold will come from its 1,600 MW Katwa super thermal power project.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the operation of two newly set up rental power plants.