Staff Reporter

Japan is ignoring the safety lessons of the Fukushima crisis, according to two prominent seismologists who  warned against restarting two reactors.

Clean energy company First Gen Corporation intends to build two hydropower plants with a combined capacity of 600 megawatts.

Greenfinity Energy Ltd of Bangladesh has exported the non-traditional high-tech solar panel to Malaysia in a limited scale.

The Manila-based anti-poverty lender Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide US$50 million loans to support setting up of energy-efficient brick kilns in Bangladesh, officials

Bangladesh's quick rental project had totally failed to meet the demand for electricity, according to a ranking member of the country's committee on power.

Materials handling company Bhatia Energy & Minerals Pvt Ltd has proposed to set up a 0.96 mtpa coal washery in Orissa. The total cost of the project has been pegged at

Heavily indebted wind turbine maker Suzlon Energy, Ltd has sold its manufacturing subsidiary in China.

Vietnam pledges to use energy more effectively and develop its energy network.

The Cabinet on June 18 approved the draft of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority Act, 2012

Malaysia will buy a majority of the 1,200 megawatts of electricity produced by Bukit Asam's new power plant in Riau.

Meralco warned its customers in Metro Manila and nearby provinces of possible rotating brownouts in the coming days.

The government of Pakistan was able to collect payments from only 47% of consumers in the last 11 months.

Investment in solar energy surged to $147 billion in 2011, a year-on- year increase of 52% thanks to strong demand for rooftop photovoltaic installations in Germany, Italy, China and Britain.

The draft of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority Act, 2012 hasbeenapproved by the Bangladesh Cabinet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. 

The government has moved to renovate 26 units of 15 old power plants in a frantic effort to feed more power

Suzlon Energy today won an order from  a biotech firm to supply 10 turbines of 2.1 MW capacity each.