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AREVA will supply High Voltage Direct Current systems for projects interconnecting the Ningdong and Shangdong regions and the Three Gorges Dam to Shanghai.

Unit 2 of Shandong Haiyang NPP Phase 1 nuclear island excavation passed the site acceptance inspection conducted by the NNSA.

TEPCO gained approval to restart unit No.7 of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station from concerned political units.

A multi-agency taskforce has been set up to spearhead the test-bedding of Electric Vehicles in Singapore. It will be chaired by the Energy Market Authority and Land Transport Authority.

A 350MW wind power project with a total of 7 JVs will be set up in Fuxin City, Liaoning Province by China Wind Power and Liaoning Energy Investment Group. The joint venture between the two companies indicated that the project will start construction this year with the aim of producing energy by 2010.

China Resources Power Holdings Company Limited's total net generation in April 2009, on a consolidated basis, decreased by 6.34 percent. It generated 5,104,552 Mwh, compared to 5,449,960 MWh for the same period last year.

Wuhan has a new "green" transformer factory, designed in accordance with the principles of energy saving and CO2 emission reduction.

Westinghouse Electric and the State Nuclear Baoti Zirconium have agreed to build and operate a nuclear grade zirconium sponge plant. It will be located at Nantong in the Jiangsu Province.

Jianxsi Nuclear Power can now proceed with the construction of Units 1 and 2 of Jiangxi Pengze NPP Phase I following the approval by two government agencies.

The first pour of basemat structural concrete for the nuclear island at Sanmen has been completed. This will be the site of the first of four Westinghouse AP1000™ nuclear power plants to be built under a contract signed in 2007.

Wärtsilä has been awarded operations and maintenance contracts by two manufacturing companies in the Philippines. The two contracts were signed during the first quarter of this year.

Meralco reduced its generation charge by US 0.0126 cents from US 0.1057 cents per kWh last April to US 0.0931 cents per kWh this month. This translates to cheaper electricity bills for Manila Electric Company or Meralco consumers this May.

HK Electric is persuading caterers to switch to electric cooking. In the biennial HOFEX 2009 Exhibition, HK Electric is putting on its "Five-star Green Electric Kitchen" demonstration, showing how electric cooking equipment helps the catering industry save energy and operating costs, while improving efficiency and productivity.

Napocor and its partners has placed its imprimatur on the manual of the Ambuklao and Binga power complex’s non-power components. The National Power Corporation, the Power Sector Assets & Liabilities Management Corporation, and SN Aboitiz Power-Benguet, Inc. has formally signed the documents approving the manual.

China Energy Recovery has an order for three sets of waste heat recovery systems for a large nickel mine project in Papua New Guinea. The total contract value is approximately US$4.85 million and the corresponding revenue to be recognised in Q2 2009 would amount to roughly US$3.7 million.

The Energy Regulatory Commission has approved Meralco's rate translation under Performance-Based Regulation.