Staff Reporter

Japan will allow nuclear reactors to operate for up to 60 years according to it revised regulations on power plant operators.

India's prime minister has assured private sector power producers of a sustainable solution to solve the sector's problems soon.

India wants broader guidelines and timelines for issuing environment clearances to power projects.

Some of India's biggest tycoons asked the government to augment coal production to resolve electricity crunch.

The government of China will resume approving new plants after the announcement of the nuclear safety plan cleared by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

The massive wind farm will have an installed capacity of 300 megawatts.

By 2015, China plans to increase its energy efficiency by 16% and reduce carbon intensity by 17%.

Indian PM Manmohan Singh will come under intense pressure to respond to the country's power crisis when he meets power executives.

SunEdison will spend around $4.56 billion on building 1,000MW of solar power plants in Japan over the next five years.

China expects its third-generation nuclear reactors to come online by 2013 notwithstanding misgivings about their safety.

Indonesia will spend $436 million to build 100 new gas stations in Java as part of a national effort to urge private car users to use less polluting natural gas as fuel.

More than half of India's 89 thermal power stations monitored by the Central Electricity Authority are struggling with severe coal shortages.

The 150 wind turbines of the first five phases of Zhongwei Xiangshan Wind Power Projec were all synchronized to the grid.

The Xianrendong Wind Farm Project located in Lufeng of Yunnan Province has been offcially approved by the Yunnan Development and Reform Commission.

Vietnam is determined to build its first nuclear power plant to avert an impending and serious shortfall in electrical power.

PM Yusuf Raza Gilani directed the release of funds for the Thar Power Project after Dr Samar Mubarakmand briefed him on the Underground Coal Gasification of Thar Coal.