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ABB will build a $30 million substation to increase power supply and allow Rio Tinto to expand iron ore mining at Hope Downs mines in the Pilbara region.

A second pair of L-3 MAPPS-developed simulators for the CPR1000+ nuclear plant design have entered service at the Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Training Center.

Tepco resumed operations of its earthquake-affected 600MWFashima oil-fired power plant.

China Power New Energy Development will not build new nuclear power plants this year following Japan’s nuclear crisis last month, according to Chairman Li Xiolin. The company currently has 13 nuclear power plants operations.

Alstom will engineer, procure, construct and commission a 1,000MW steam turbine, a generator, a supercritical boiler and auxiliaries for upercritical coal-fired power plant in Manjung, Malaysia. The power generation equipment worth over €650 million.

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

Korea will spend $947 million this year for renewable energy development research and nuclear safety projects.

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

Tepco will withdraw its plan to build two more reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

GE and Hitachi vowed to provide long-term assistance to help bring the Fukuishima Daiichi nuclear plant emergency under control.

YTL Power will bid for a $3 billion coal-fired power plant in Central Java, Indonesia, in partnership with a number of Japanese firms.

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.

Vietnam's Deputy PM Hoàng Trung Hải wants an early promulgation of a strategy and Master Planning Scheme for renewal energy development by 2030.

Vestas has signed its first wind power order in 2011 with China Longyuan Power Group for 48 MW. The order consists of 24 wind turbines V80-2.0 MW which will be installed in Fujian.

PLN announced it would buy electricity from a 30 MW wind farm run by Viron Energy in Sukabumi, West Java.

The NDRC announced that it has approved 10 large wind farm projects in Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, and Hebei provinces.