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First Solar has received a licence to construct a thin-film solar panel plant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

China Southern Power plans to increase investment in the country's grid networks by almost a third of its previous investment.

ADB has agreed to lend up to $100 million to a privately owned gas-fired power plant in Pakistan. It is meant that will help alleviate chronic power shortages which are undermining growth and poverty reduction.

The rotor of turbine 2 at the Son La hydropower plant has been installed.

New PV module assembly plants are being built by Kyocera in the Czech Republic and Tianjin, China.

 

The PV industry’s latest innovation in cell design owes as much to Mother Nature as it does to time spent in any laboratory. And it is the water-repellent, antireflective coating of a moth’s eye that has provided the inspiration behind this latest advance in thin-film technology.

China Huaneng, Peabody Energy and Calera Corp. will develop a green coal energy campus in the Xilinguole Region of Inner Mongolia.

 

China Resources Power plans to increase its wind power installed capacity by 800 megawatts annually.

India will receive $89.7million loan from the ADB for the Assam Power Sector Enhancement Programme, Tranche-II.

 

GE plans to sign five agreements with Chinese partners this week, totaling more than $2 billion in revenue.

Vandanaa Power signed an MoU to construct a 2,400MW coal-fired power plant in Navalakhi port in Kutch district, Gujarat, India.