Staff Reporter

New Delhi received up to 1,000 MW less power recently leading to load shedding in many areas.

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant remained stable afetr a 5.5 magnitude offshore earthquake that recently hit the surrounding area, according to operator TEPCO.

Voltaix has formed a sales and customer support office for solar and semiconductor applications in Shanghai, China.

JinkoSolar has claimed it has completed ‘Phase 1’ of an environmental safety upgrade of its chemical storage area, without noting what upgrades had actually been undertaken.

Yingli Green Energy has upgraded existing warranties for both its mono and multicrystalline products as well as introduced a linear-based extended warranty that guarantees power output for each year of a 25-year warranty period.

China Resources Power selected Emerson Process Management to automate two new ultra-supercritical units of 1000MW Puqi power plant in China.

China’s new feed-in tariff has led to a significant increase in downstream activity.

It increased to 9,368,705 MWh from 7,733,629 MWh for the same period last year.

China Guangdong has reopened talks with Kalahari over a 270 pence-a-share bid, according to a Bloomberg report.

The transaction would mark the latest energy sector deal between China and Canada.

BHEL has again secured a thermal power plant contract from Dainik Bhaskar Power Limited.

Mingsong Liang and Shuming Zhao has been selected as the new independent directors for the company board of Daqo New Energy.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has promulgated a decree regulating fines on administrative violations relating to economical and effective energy use.

Punj Lloyd Group has won the contract for the first polysilicon plant of Qatar. The contract has been awarded by Qatar Solar Technologies.  It is scheduled to be commissioned by mid-2013.

IPPs in Andhra Pradesh generate and supply about 300-330 Mw more to the State grid through additional gas supply of 1.5 mmscmd, partially boosting the power capacity in the State.

The Ministry of Coal had asked NTPC for the progress report on the coal blocks, including the development of the end-use plants for which the mines were allocated.