Staff Reporter

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will build a 1,600MW gas turbine combined-cycle power generation plant in Thailand.

The $100m loan is being arranged by Mizuho Corporate Bank.

Tata Power and SN Power are scouting for hydroelectric projects in India and Nepal.

The project will have a capacity of as much as 600 megawatts.

The company said it would buy an extra 3.3 million metric tons of LNG a year through 2035.

Calgary-based AltaLink is Canada’s only fully independent transmission company operating approximately 12,000 km of transmission lines that serve 85 percent of Alberta’s population.

Securing cleaner energy to achieve better air quality is a cornerstone of CLP’s operations. Our Energy Vision is for a greener Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region for now and in the future.

In its 2010 Outlook Update, the Asia Development Bank commented as follows on the Asia Pacific Region, “Despite the sluggish global recovery, the region’s growth and momentum has sustained itself in 2011, and prospects are bright for most regional economies.

Moser Baer is investing $1 billion in solar projects with a cumulative capacity of 300 MW in the country and abroad in the next nine months.

Pacific Hydro has reduced the number of turbines for the proposed Keyneton wind farm to be located in the eastern Mt Lofty Ranges in Australia.

GAIL floated an ICB e-tender for Lump Sum Turn Key contract for setting up u. A total of three bids were received to set up commercial wind energy generation project of 24 MW with comprehensive O&M in the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

 Tokyo Electric Power Co is considering raising 3 trillion yen ($39 billion) over four years, half of which would be a taxpayer-funded capital injection that would lead to the utility's de facto nationalization, Kyodo News Agency reported on Thursday. Tepco, which faces massive compensation payments and clean-up costs at its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, would procure the remaining 1.5 trillion yen through loans to help it repay bonds and invest in new equipment at its plants, Kyodo said. The Mainichi newspaper said earlier that the government was considering injecting at least 1 trillion yen. here  

But nuclear will remain key to China's energy policy with new approvals to start in 2012.

Vestas will provide 56 units of the V90-3.0 MW wind turbine for the Musselroe Wind Farm project.

South Korea will provide low-interest loans for the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in Laos.