Staff Reporter

Japan marked the first year-on-year decline in two months after power demand fell 0.3 percent in September from a year earlier.

Myanmar is hoping to retain 200 million cubic feet per day of natural gas from the 1 billion cubic feet per day it exports to Thailand.

GCL-Poly and Foxconn Technology will build and operate a 310MW solar plant in China’s Shanxi province and share the revenue from selling electricity to the government utility. 

With emphasis on rooftop projects, Gestamp Solar intends to develop 300MW of solar power projects in Japan over three years.

New names emerged at this year's awards held in Thailand.

The government has announced that China's geothermal energy resources amount to 860 trillion tonnes of coal equivalent.

Exports in India warned that the Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) model would not be suitable for setting up power plants in the country and could lead to complications.

Mytrah Energy Limited plans to build 5000 MWs in India by 2018.

Sterlite Energy Limited (SEL) and Bharat Aluminium Co. Ltd (BALCO), are hunting for buyers of their combined power surplus of 1,000 MW.

GE will supply Frame 9F 3-series gas turbines for two new power plants in Bangladesh with a total capacity of 675 megawatts. 

Japan’s Sumitomo Group has bought a fourth of the 550 megawatt Desert Sunlight Solar Farm, now under construction in the Mojave Desert in southern California.

Foxconn Technology Group and GCL-Poly Energy Holding Ltd will put up and operate a solar-power plant in China’s Shanxi Province. The said companies will share revenue from selling electricity to the government utility at the 310-megawatt plant, which will use GCL’s solar cells to be assembled by Foxconn, according to Hong Kong-listed GCL’s executive president Shu Hua who told Bloomberg News Wednesday. He declined to specify the investment amount or revenue split for the facility, which is scheduled to be fully operational during the first half of next year.

A three-day power conference and exhibition will wrap up October 5 at the Challenger Hall 1, Impact Exhibition & Convention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand.The conference highlights include the joint plenary discussion on strategy and technology trends for a power hungry region, panel discussions on current power developments in finance and investment and on fuel as a driver for choices in power generation as well as POWER-GEN Asia 2012 summary session.At the opening ceremony last October 3, Dr. Norkun Sitthiphong (permanent secretary of the Thailand’s Ministry of Energy), Pongdith Potchana (deputy governor of Corporate Social Responsibility, EGAT, Thailand), and Darryl Wilson (president and chief executive officer of GE Power and Water Aero Products, USA) were invited as presenters/lecturers.Among the topics discussed during the said meet were Steam Turbine Modernization, Emerging Energy Trends, Boiler Modernization, Gas Turbine Fuel Flexibility, Generation Portfolio Choices, Converting Waste-to-Energy Plants from Waste Destruction to Waste Utilization, Generator Life Cycle Technology, Combined Heat and Power, Managing Risks in the Power Sector, and IPP Market Focus, among others. (by Rogelio Constantino Medina)

Experts inspected the evacuation plan for people living in earthquake-affected areas near Song Tranh Hydropower Plant in central Quang Nam Province.

The 10th turbine in southern Bac Lieu Province's sea wind-power project has been installed.

Sumitomo will add wind farms and at least two biomass plants to take advantage of the market rates for electricity from renewable sources the government introduced in July.