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The Combined Cycle Gas Turbine plant construction in Prai, Penang, and an extension of the first generation power purchase agreement will be awarded in October.

Japan's new renewable energy program has already exceeded its fiscal 2012 target by more than 50 percent.

Intense lobbying by the nuclear power industry and its allies has saved the Monju fast-breeder reactor from the scrap heap.

NHPC will enter the thermal power generation business through joint ventures with the thermal generating states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh.

Thailand's Sunny Bangchak, a 44MW PV plant, has been connected and can now help mitigate 32,000 tons of CO2 emissions.

Alstom will deliver two 600MW steam turbines, generator sets and accessories worth €100m for the Dongbu Green Power Plant in Korea.

Plans are in the offing to install 1,500 solar-powered irrigation pumps across Bangladesh by 2016.

Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan will lease roof space in its school buildings and other public buildings to solar panels to take advantage of the new Feed-in Tariff for renewable energy.

Quezon Power Philippines Ltd. is trying to close an off-take power supply agreement with Meralco for the 500-megawatt expansion of its coal-fired power plant in Mauban.

SMA Solar would rather lose global market share than try to enter the risky but fast growing Chinese market.

European aircraft maker Airbus and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation Ltd or Sinopec are jointly developing a new aviation fuel made from biomass. The partners said the new renewable fuel will be first used in China. Sinopec is to develop the fuel with its own technology at a plant recently built in Hangzhou, near Shanghai. "The refinery is one of the few in the world that has the capacity to produce aviation fuel from biomass in large-scale," Airbus said. The company did not say when output would begin, but sources said it could take about a year. The partners are in the process of selecting the raw material for the biomass. This raw material will come 100% from China and will be sustainable. Among the raw materials being considered is agricultural waste such as straw. Sinopec will assist the central government establish a Chinese airworthiness certification for alternative aviation fuels made from locally grown feedstocks.

The Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA) of Malaysia announced that it will accept applications for its Solar Home Rooftop Programme.

India has approved a bailout for cash-strapped power distributors who have accumulated US$17.35 billion in losses as of 2010-2011 financial year.

The European Union has signed a finance agreement with China that will help the latter's transition to a low-carbon economy.

China will celebrate a "National Low Carbon Day" beginning June 2013.

It will build a 135 megawatt circulating fluidized bed thermal facility in Iloilo.