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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.

The installed wind farm capacity of the grid-connected wind power in Inner Mongolia reached 10.9 GW by February 2011. It became the first region in China to possess 10 GW of grid-connected installed wind energy.

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

China’s National Development and Reform Commission revealed the government was planning to cut its 2020 target for nuclear power capacity.