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Growing exports by the South Korea's chemical, machinery and steel sectors increased its industrial electricity sales  steadily last month.

Japan and five Mekong River countries will focus on cross-border energy security cooperation in light of power shortages in some parts of the Southeast Asian region.

China is expected to face a power shortage up to 70 million kilowatts in 2013, according to an official with the China Electricity Council.

China's total electric power consumption from January to July rose 12.2 percent from a year earlier to 2.69 trillion kilowatt-hours, according to China's National Energy Administration.

Petrovietnam has secured a $95 million loan to build a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant in central Vietnam.

KST Energy and Russia’s Energoproekt Company signed a contract to perform a feasibility study for building a thermal power plant near the proposed refinery project at the Nhon Hoi Economic Zone, Binh Dinh Province.

The Chinese government’s new feed-in-tariff has the potential to increase solar installations in the country by 1.5GW in the next 18 months, according to a new IHS iSuppli report.

National Consulting Group will establish a power company in Vientiane and an office branch in Saravan province to operate the Houay Por hydropower plant construction project.

The government of Nepal will formally request China for US $1.6 billion in loan to construct the 750 MW West Seti Hydro Project Limited.

But revenues will decline from $64.4b in 2010 to $56.9b in 2012 before recovering to $65.4b in 2016.

 Coal India Limited refuted charges pertaining to supply of poor quality coal to Kota and Suratgarh thermal power plants, as alleged by Lalit Kishore Chaturvedi, MP.

NHPC will set two hydro projects of total 400 Mw capacity in Uttarakhand.

Mandatory safety inspections of existing nuclear power plants in the China has been completed by the China Nuclear Energy Association.

The Nam Theun 2 Power Company or NTPC remains unsure when its plant will resume electricity generation as the level of the Xebangfay River remains high.

LDK Solar and Datang International Power Generation will build a 20MW solar power plant in Qinghai, China.

Reliance Power's parent company, the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, will invest INR15bn or $333.2 million in a 200MW wind power plant in Vashpet, in the Indian state of Maharashtra.