Staff Reporter

Infrastructure firms NCC and IL&FS Engineering will completely exit from the hydro electric project they are jointly building on the River Sorang in Himachal Pradesh.

A power tariff increase of Rs2.68 per unit for Karachiites has been approved on account of fuel adjustment charges during January to March 2012.

Zen-Noh and Mitsubishi Corp. will jointly enter the solar power generation business.

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina emphasized the need for more renewable energy production such as wind and solar power to protect the environment.

Hokuriku Electric Power Co. plans to dig a tunnel under the reactor 1 building at its Shika nuclear power plant to investigate a suspected active fault.

China is quietly starting the construction of four new nuclear power plants placed on hold following the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011.

The rotor of the sixth and last turbine of the Son La hydroelectric power plant has been installed.

AT Systematization Berhad and China’s Maoming Jiacheng Industrial Co., Ltd will form a joint venture company to produce renewable energy products.

China National Offshore Oil Corporation is on the verge of completing the biggest foreign corporate acquisition in Chinese history.

The International Chamber of Commerce, Bangladesh reietrated that the cheapest option for the country to meet its increasing energy need is to use local coal forpower generation.

Perusahaan Listrik Negara has appointed HSBC as a transaction adviser for two mine-mouth power plant projects in South Sumatra worth a combined $2 billion.