India

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board closed eight coal-based power units operated by Maharashtra State Power Generation Company due to non-compliance of pollution norms.

The project is set to be built in the Indian state of Karnataka.

Tehri Hydro Development Corporation held its second meeting to determine responsibility for time and cost overrun in its 400 MW Koteshwar hydro electric project in Uttarakhand.

India’s biggest solar power generation plant of 40MW will soon rise at Patan in Gujarat. According to the Hindu, PLG Power Limited will put up the project.

Siemens and Cobra will install the $116.4M power transmission grid across Bangladesh and India by next year.

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina wants to utilize renewable energy in improving the counrtry's power situation.

A false alarm led to the shutting down of Kaiga Atomic Power Station's third reactor. It would be restarted on April 17 and connected to the grid after surveillance tests.

Shanghai Electric had signed an agreement with  to export 125 units of 2MW wind turbines to India.

PCI Ltd. of India and Onet Technologies of France have set up a joint venture to provide various services to the Indian nuclear power industry.

Techno Electric and Engineering Company Ltd. has commenced the first phase of the 125-MW wind energy generation project in Tamil Nadu.

KPTL will install a 400kv Krishnapatnam UMPP to Gooty Transmission line along with two others.

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.