Staff Reporter

The State Grid Corporation of China's profit increased 18 percent year-on-year in 2011 on stronger business revenues.

A 10MW ground-mounted solar project in north west China has been constructed and connected to the grid.

The Mayitasi Wind Farm Phase I has been successfully connected to the grid for power generation.

TEPCO says  it found in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's No.2 reactor radioactive substances that could have resulted from continuous nuclear fission.

Operation of nuclear reactors will be limited by the Japanese government to 40 years, although there would be exceptions if certain requirements are met.

Shikoku Electric Power Co. halted the No.1 reactor at its Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime prefecture for a three-month scheduled checkup.

The increasing number of bioenergy power generation projects in 2011 produced 500MW of energy.

A decision over antidumping penalties against Chinese solar module imports into the US has been delayed by a month.

Power crisis in Andhra Pradesh is expected to worsen with an average power shortfall of 1,180 million units from January-May 2012.

Power plants to be installed in Bangladesh by 2015 may not get adequate gas supply.

Thailand's Delta Electronics aims to boost sales by 10 percent this year to $1.3 billion with new products, inlcuding those for solar energy.

Beijing, China’s pollution capital, has just issued its first plan for new and renewable energy.

ABB has booked an order worth more than Rs. 4000 crores from Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., to deliver UHVDC transmission system.

NTPC has signed a PPA with Madhya Pradesh Power Trading Company for supplying electricity from a 50MW solar plant, based in Rajgarh. It is expected to be commissioned by 2013.

India’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission is bound to achieve 20 GW until 2022. India has some KW of installed solar power until the kick start of the Mission in 2010. India is one of the two countries in the world with more than one billion and is also home to many persons without electricity. But we are not talking about off-grid applications, we are talking about on-grid and with Fit. India learnt the lesson of Fit and RPS driven PPA and created their own scheme: RPO – Renewable Purchase Obligation – with a reverse bidding to determine the Fit.

In July 2011 Asian Power posted an article I wrote on the new paradigm for utility information security where you should assume your information systems can be breached and react accordingly. In this article I’d like to extend some added ideas for energy and utility executives to consider when trying to secure their information systems.