Staff Reporter

Will respond this week to charges of “forced localization”.

Projects will add 35MW to Rajasthan’s grid.

West Bengal will turn hydropower to improve power supply.

Power crisis in Kerala will be eased with the installation of 10,000 solar roof-top panels in houses.

Bangladesh will purchase of 61,650 electric poles to achieve 1.8 million new power connections in rural areas.

Thailand and Mozambique are expected to sign an MoU in the next couple of months on energy collaboration.

Filinvest is gearing up for the pre-construction phases of a 405-MW coal-fired plant in Misamis Oriental.

There are allegations that the Malaysian government awarded a RM2.47 billion power plant project  to a Korean company that did not make a bid. 

San Carlos BioPower Corp is putting up four biomass power plants with a combined capacity of 100 megawatts at a cost of $500 million.

Marubeni Corp. is seeking a buyer for its 30% stake in the Millmerran Power Station in Queensland, Australia.

December 23, 2012 marks a milestone in the history of the Son La Hydropower Plant as the day it officially began operations three years ahead of schedule. It is the largest hydropower plant in the country and Southeast Asia, and also the largest of its kind designed and built by Vietnamese engineers.

Electricity of Vietnam announced it produced and purchased an estimated 10.12 billion kWh in the first month of this year.

BHEL will supply a steam generator package for the 1,980MW Nabinagar Supercritical Thermal Power Project.

Hydro Tasmania hopes to develop renewable energy projects outside Tasmania.

Hydro Tasmania and Shenhua Clean Energy have included the Musselroe Wind Farm among their joint projects.

Senoko Energy started up two natural gas-fired power plants with 862 megawatt capacity in Singapore.