Staff Reporter

India's President Pratibha Patil empahsized that nuclear energy was an essential element of India’s national energy basket.

Kansai Electric has bought liquefied natural gas from Norway for the first time, according to a source of Reuters.

The World Bank has approved US$172 million credit for Bangladesh to support installation of an additional 630,000 solar home systems and other renewable energy mini-grid schemes.

ADB will invest $750 million for power transmission systems that will help India efficiently transfer electricity to regions where the need is greatest.

ADB is providing loans of up to $350 million for transmission system upgrades to help the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh take greater advantage of its vast hydropower resources.

ABB has won an order worth $71 million from Steel Authority of India Limited to supply a substation package for its Bhilai Steel Plant located in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

With a string of problems preventing the timely commissioning of the 44 MW Chutak hydro electric project, NHPC has lashed out at BHEL for its laid back attitude and failure to take adequate action regarding critical activities for the project.

 NTPC-SAIL Power Company Limited  has requested the Ministry of Power to place its new power projects nder the central public sector undertaking category in order to fast track the allocation of coal linkage.

The 30-minute load-shedding program is likely to continue in the Indian state of Kerala as a result of fall in power supply from the Central grid. This load shedding applies to all categories of consumers.

Neo Solar Power will showcase its new low-cost, high-efficiency monocrystalline solar cell in an exhibition in Taipei.

Aravali Power Company Pvt Ltd has threatened to cut power supply to the Delhi based distribution companies if the Letter of Credit was not renewed.

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering and Daewoo International will sign an agreement with Ashuganj Power Station for the construction of a 225MW power plant in Bangladesh.

Hokkaido Electric pledged to continue to give up to 300 megawatts of surplus power to quake-hit Tohoku Electric Power until the end of November, at a time many of Tohoku's nuclear and fossil fuel plants remain shut.

Taiwan’s largest solar plant has been connected to the grid 18 months after construction started.

Vietnam's Department of Industry and Trade and the provincial Center of Industrial Promotion launched its energy saving program, which has been planned and implemeted from the start of 2011.

After the shutdown of Genkai nuclear plant only 10 reactors in Japan with a capacity of 8,684 MW are currently generating electricity, leaving just 17.7 percent of the nation's total nuclear power capacity in use.