Staff Reporter

On the sidelines of the Power Plant World Asia 2012 held in Singapore, Asian Power spoke with Bentley Systems, a leader in software engineering and software solutions to discuss Asia’s power industry trends and how their customer preferences changed in the last decade.

The Eurozone crisis and a massive drop in prices of solar panels are combining to make China the solar power superpower.

Japan’s Prime Minister tells his countrymen that Japan cannot do without nuclear power.

KEC International has secured an order worth Rs 361 crore or US$65.17 million for a 400 kV double circuit transmission line to be set up in Tamil Nadu.

Uttar Pradesh added 6MU ofelectricty toits grid with the commissioning of a 250 MW unit at the Harduaganj Thermal Power Station.

Meja Urja Nigam Private Limited, a joint venture (JV) between the country's largest power company by

GAIL has expressed support to the move of the Ministry of Power to club KG D-6 gas supplies against

Power may be regulated by National Hydro Power Corporation to three discoms, one each in Assam, Mizoram and Meghalaya.

To augment electricity production, Bangladesh will produce 5,000 megawatts  of electricity from nuclear energy by 2030.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has stressed the need to reactivate two idled reactors at the Oi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture despite the fact that the investigations into the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant are still under way.

Conergy and Ensunt will collaborate on a 50MW solar power plant project for the DACC Power Generation Company Limited in Pakistan.

A second underground power house will add 375MW to the existing 250MW Warsak hydropower station.

Uttar Pradesh gave an 18 months extension to 9 power projects for which MoU's were signed during the previous Mayawati regime but failed to take off.

RHB Research Institute said the joint bid by S P Setia and Sime Darby has been identified as the preferred

Prai Power has withdrew its RM83.61 million or US$26.28 million claim in the arbitration proceedings against Sumitomo  arising from a defective rotor.