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The trends of interconnections are gaining popularity in Asian power market. Beside the great advantages of these interconnections, a high risk is also associated with cascading effect of any local disturbance which may travelled through the interconnections and leads to a massive break down. Wide Area Monitoring System (WAMS) is now a necessity in Asian power market.

Japan energy policy, as promulgated by the National government in June 2002 in the Basic Act on Energy Policy, is based on the following three measures on energy supply and demand:

Mining industry sources report a growing use of renewable energy by major mining firms worldwide.

China will soon require its major electricity grid companies to source up to 15% of their power from renewable energy sources.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited will hire 5,000 personnel in the next 5 years for posts ranging from artisans to plant engineers and management executives.

Australia-based CBD Energy will launch its portfolio of renewable energy businesses in the US during the Solar Power International conference in Orlando.

Singapore-based Sembcorp Industries has acquired $85.5m power assets in China from American firm AES Corporation.

The government of Pakistan has sought financing from China for the mega $13 billion Diamer Bhasha Dam.

The largest hydroelectric project on the Upper Mekong River Basin, the Nuozhadu dam, has officially began generating power.

India’s national initiative to promote renewable energy has boosted its photovoltaic capacity by 255MW and its concentrated solar power capacity by 2.5MW.

China will remain the world’s leading renewable energy market at least until 2020.

The massive costs of coping with the aftermath of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant nuclear disaster has left its operator with limited funds to convert to alternative energy sources.

NSL Renewable Power will set up a 75-MW wind power project in the Satara District of Maharashtra.

BHEL has come under the scanner yet again for delaying the implementation of two thermal projects in Uttar Pradesh.

With power shortage increasing continuously in the face of rising consumer demand, the government has decided to seek financing from China for the mega $13 billion Diamer Bhasha Dam with power production capacity of 4,500 megawatts and also take loans from domestic commercial banks by offering guarantees.According to sources, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf will place a request before his Chinese counterpart during the visit on September 10 for financing the Diamer Bhasha Dam, for which multilateral donors including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) had sought no-objection certificate (NOC) from India due to the dam "being situated in a disputed territory". The decision to approach China was taken in a meeting held at the Planning Commission last month as Beijing had wide experience of building large dams, a senior government official said. During the meeting, different options were considered for arranging capital for the dam, which is vital for wiping out most of the gap between electricity demand and supply in the country. In the meeting, the government officials also decided to borrow money from banks with 50% guarantees to be provided by the central government and the remaining by the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda).

The largest hydroelectric project on the Upper Mekong River Basin officially began generating power yesterday. The Nuozhadu dam near Pu'er will be China's fourth largest hydropower plant when finished in 2014, energy website RedNet is reporting.The embankment dam rises 261.5 meters above the Mekong River, or Lancang River  in Chinese. Construction on the dam is not complete and only one of a planned nine 650 megawatt generators is currently in operation.When fully operational the power plant will produce an estimated 24,000 gigawatts of electricity annually. In practical terms, that is enough energy to power New York City for seven months. Project engineers at the power plant's September 6 opening ceremony said energy generated by Nuozhadu will save more than nine million tons ofcoal per year.The 61 billion yuan (US$9.6 billion) project broke ground in 2004 and is part of China's sprawling Western Development Strategy.One of the key goals of this policy is to utilize the region's numerous rivers for power production. Much of the electricity will be sent to larger, more energy-hungry cities on the east coast. Some of the power generated by the dam will be sold to Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.The project broke ground in 2004 and the reservoir behind the dam began filling last year. When completely full, the new Nuozhadu reservoir will have a surface area of 320 square kilometers and hold water equivalent to 11 Dianchi lakes.Nearly 43,000 people must be relocated to make way for the slowly f illing lake. Those efforts began in 2011 and will continue through this year.https://gokunming.com/en/blog/item/2788/yunnans_largest_hydroelectric_dam_goes_online