Staff Reporter

NHPC has asked India's power ministry to give 15% or 300 MW of unallocated power at the Subansiri Lower hydro-electric project to Assam.

Funds committed to support Indonesia’s investment master plan until 2014 have reached Rp 4,925 trillion or $537 billion as of the end of February.

India-assisted hydro electric projects in Bhutan during FY 2012-13 will require an annual funding of US$438 million.

Malaysia's Tenaga Nasional Bhd could add up to 30% in core net profits in fiscal period ending Aug 31, 2013 due to government reform initiatives.

Japan’s third largest mobile phone company decides that green is good.

India’s largest power utility won’t invest in coal-fired power plants but will go for clean energy projects instead.

Two Distribution Main Intake substations wi be buit and upgraded in Sabah to overcome shortage of electricity supply to residents.

Work at the Chinese-backed Myitsone Dam in northern Burma is continuing despite a presidential statement last September suspending its construction.

TEPCO will indicate later in the month whether all the reactors at its two nuclear power plants in Fukushima Prefecture will be scrapped.

China will develop Nepal's 760MW West Seti Project hydropower plant in a $1.6 billion deal.

India's power ministry insists that zero customs duty given to mega power projects should not be withdrawn to avoid additional costs to the projects under construction.

Kuwait has offered grant assistance to develop Nepal's 30 MW Budi Ganga Hydropower Project to help ease power woes.

China will roll out tiered power pricing for residential customers in the first half of this year, to charge higher prices for heavy users, a government official was quoted as saying on Thursday, aiming to ease chronically tight power supplies.

State Grid Corp. of China has held talks to buy a controlling stake in the U.S. wind power business of AES Corp., the first time the Chinese state-owned giant has bid to acquire energy assets in the world’s largest economy.

Despite disappointments, New Zealand’s struggling wind industry should finally break free of the doldrums.

Japanese multinational electronics giant Sharp Corporation will develop photovoltaic projects with a total output of 100 megawatts in partnership with the Indonesia government.