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Cavico Hydropower has successfully completed all construction activities at the Dong Nai 3 hydropower plant.

Vietnam needs $10 billion for power grid development in the 2010-2015 period. The figure is five and seven times more than the investment for the past five years.

China has finished assembling its first nuclear power plant refueling machine that it completely claim to have intellectually independent property right

Unit 3 at Qinshan Phase II Nuclear Power Plant recently started commercial operations.

CLP’s first wholly owned wind farm in Mainland China – Phase I of Qian'an Wind Farm in Songyuan City, Jilin Province—hase been commissioned. The project was developed and constructed by CLP. Phase I of the project has a generation capacity of 49.5 MW.

Bhutan is receiving fresh ADB assistance in providing electricity to all rural households. Asian Development Bank's Board of Directors has approved a grant of almost $21.6 million for the Bhutan Rural Renewable Energy Development Project.

Chubu became the first Japanese electric power company to agree on a long term purchase of LNG derived from CBM.

Saint-Gobain is interested in putting up a plant in India but wants government support.

Acciona Energy has started constricting the 56 MW Tuppadahalli facility, its third wind park in India. It will come on stream in 2011. According to the Construction and maintenance News, the wind park represents an investment of US$81.3 million. The wind park will increase the company's wind power capacity in the country to 85.8 MW.

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited's large capacity addition program will be financed by the Power Finance Corporation.

The initiative will test and evaluate new applications and technologies aimed to deploy a smart grid throughout Singapore.

GE will supply $750 million worth of equipment and services for a 2,400-megawatt expansion of the Samalkot power plant.

Alstom won an approximately US$360 million order to construct a new power plant for Tuas Power in Singapore. TPG, owned by NYSE-listed Huaneng Power International and one of Singapore’s largest power generation companies, already operates four existing combined cycle power plants and two oil fired steam power plants. The order includes an Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract for the construction of a new 400 MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant CCP5, as well as a six-year maintenance contract.   Under the terms and conditions of the EPC contract, Alstom will provide the entire power plant and all associated equipment, including a GT26 gas turbine, steam turbine and heat recovery steam generator. Alstom’s combined cycle technology, based on its GT26 gas turbine, is among the most efficient and reliable technologies currently available.   The completion of CCP5 in 2014 will enable TPG to improve the overall electricity generating efficiency of its plant portfolio. “This is Alstom’s first contract with TPG, which represents a major breakthrough and is proof of our competitiveness,” said Philippe Joubert, President of Alstom Power. “By selecting us as their partner, TPG has given a strong indication of their confidence in the quality and reliability of Alstom’s products.”  

The company’s S$900mln investment in the project will boost its generation capacity to 1,300 MW.

Petrochemical companies on Jurong Island will benefit from PowerSeraya’s newest 800MW Co-Generation Combined Cycle Plant. The company, part of YTL Power, unveiled the natural gas-fired facility today, which is capable of producing electricity and steam simultaneously for export to customers in the Seraya cluster.

China’s energy chief criticized US probe into Chinese subsidy on its clean energy.