Staff Reporter

The government of Indonesia hopes to raise base electricity prices by 1 percent per month until it achieves a 15 percent hike.

Thailand's largest energy company, PTT Public Company Ltd, bids to diversify away from oil and gas for power generation and into coal.

India’s Reliance Power Ltd and China Datang Corporation have entered into a strategic partnership to develop and operate power and energy projects in Indonesia.

The Reactor-1 in Uljin Nuclear Power Plant resumed operations Tuesday less than a week after its automatic shutdown prompted by problems with transmission lines,

Myanmar and a Japanese consortium will jointly develop a special economic zone in Yangon, which includes a gas-fired power plant.

Vietnam's Song Da Group and Viet-Laos Electricity Joint-Stock Company will build Sekong 3 and Sekaman 4 hydroelectricity projects in Laos.

These are the first Vietnam-produced domestic boilers.

Japanese energy company IHI Inc has taken over majority ownership in five biomass power plants located in California.

Delay in supply of steam and turbine generator components by BHEL is keeping the 500 MW unit-II of the Rihand stage-III expansion project in India from being comissioned on time.

Most of Bangladesh's midterm and long term power generation initiatives are stuck in uncertainties for lack of finance and fuel supply assurances.

Japan Mega Solar Power will invest $1.3 billion to develop solar power plants in Japan.

The Year-on-year growth of PV markets in Asia-Pacific is expected to be around 80%, with 50% of it occuring in the fourth quarter, according to a research.

Meralco, the Philippines’ largest power distributor, makes its first renewable energy investment.

Japan's largest leasing and diversified financial services conglomerate intends to invest US$686 million on solar rooftop projects in the next three years.

China and Singapore have invested a combined US$1 billion in a US liquefied natural gas facility.

Coal-rich Australia says it installed 785 megawatts of rooftop solar power in 2012, making it world leader in this category.