Staff Reporter

India has approved a bailout for cash-strapped power distributors who have accumulated US$17.35 billion in losses as of 2010-2011 financial year.

Nuclear Regulation Authority, Japan's new nuclear watchdog, plans to create fresh criteria for restarting nuclear reactors, according to its chief, Shunichi Tanaka.

The European Union has signed a finance agreement with China that will help the latter's transition to a low-carbon economy.

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines will invest P269 million or US$6.44 million for additional capacitor banks at substations in the Luzon grid.

Myanmar's clean coal plant to be built at Dawei special economic zone may now push through with Thailand and Japan providing loans.

Komatsu will spend ¥58 billion to scrap aging facilities and become more energy-efficient.

PLN will start cutting power to customers in Jambi who have not paid their bills in three months.

China will celebrate a "National Low Carbon Day" beginning June 2013.

It will build a 135 megawatt circulating fluidized bed thermal facility in Iloilo.

An increasing scarcity of water threatens to hinder the flow of electric power needed by the huge Chinese economy for growth.

Sharp Corp. plans to scale down its domestic and overseas solar cell and power generation operations, except for cell production at its plant in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture.

Sharp Corp. plans to substantially reduce its domestic and overseas solar power operations to help revamp its

J-Power began work on a 20 megawatt wind power station in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan.

The World Bank has called for regular monitoring of the critical phase of the 412MW Rampur Hydropower Project in Himachal Pradesh to avoid any slippage in physical progress.

Thailand's goal of utilizing clean sources of energy for about a quarter of the country's energy needs by 2021 got thesupport of the IFC.

Nepal and China have sealed the deal on the West Seti Hydropower Project in West Nepal.