Staff Reporter

A famous sporting coach once said, “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”

The Shanghai Municipal Development & Reform Commission recently issued a policy descriptively named "Implementation Advice on Accelerating the Establishment of Building Energy Consumption Monitoring Systems in Shanghai’s Government and Large Public Buildings" (“Implementation Advice”).

In July the new Feed In Tariff (FIT) for renewable energy sources will come in effect. Under the new FIT, utilities are required to buy solar, wind, geothermal and hydro power at a fixed tariff and are allowed to pass on such cost to the consumers.

In spite of current market conditions in India, favourable project economics are set to support coal power as the default baseload capacity option with over $154 billion capex expected between 2012 and 2020

US global financial services firm Morgan Stanley will pay US$210 million for a majority stake in one of India's top wind energy firms.

China National Petroleum Corporation will build a liquefied natural gas storage complex on Hainan Island in southern China.

Essar Energy has synchronised the one of two 255 MW units at its Vadinar Phase 2 power generation project in Gujarat with the transmission grid.

Kerala emphasized it's right to get 266 MW from Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant against Tamil Nadu's claim for the power generated from it.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), the only electricity retailer in Vietnam, has assured the public that the

Vietnam is seeking US$6 billion to upgrade its power transmission grid as demand for power consumption continues to increase.

While China has been a world leader in developing renewable energy, it now appears that integration of renewable generation is presenting the country with a whole new range of technical that threaten to slow the torrid pace of growth not only in the China, but across the world.

Shale gas holds the promise of massive clean energy for China.

Reliance Power has synchronised a 300-mw unit of its Butibori thermal power project with the electricity grid.

Wartsila will launch a remote monitoring station in India to popularize its flexible decentralised power plants.

China Power Investment Corp has established a subsidiary in Chengdu, Sichuan province, to develop hydropower resources in the area.

Samsung Engineering had won a US$2.1 billion order to build a power plant in .meet growing energy demand.