Staff Reporter

French power generation company Alstom will invest up to US$123 million in hydro power projects in China.

India’s controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant will become operational next month after a delay of nearly five years and US$484 million over budget.

The Philippines’ Energy Regulatory Commission has approved a US$0.23 per kWh initial feed-in tariff rate for all solar installations.

The government of Bangladesh is planning to set up 50 new power sub-stations in Rajshahi, Rangpur, Khulna and Barishal division.

A study revealed that solar and onshore wind will be the cheapest sources of electricity in Australia by 2030.

China has more than doubled its PV installation target to 50GW by 2020.

Kepco will raise utility bills by an average of 4.9 percent as early as next week to improve its worsening balance sheet and help reduce power consumption.

An experimental housing unit inJapan using solar panels, a storage battery and a fuel cell, was able to cut annual electricity costs by 88 percent.

Powergrid will install an optical fibre ground wire network for Northeast India.

India's generation based incentive scheme to encourage investments in the wind power sector is likely to be restored soon.

The Japanese government's option of reducing atomic energy to 15 percent by 2030 is winning public favor.

The U.S. Department of Commerce said that Vietnamese utility-scale wind towers has dumping margins of over 50%.

RenuEn has secured a 50MW solar project in Pakistan through its pending acquisition of Team Energy.

Kyocera and six other partner-companies have established a new firm to operate a 70MW solar power plant to be built in Kagoshima City, Japan.