Staff Reporter

Haryana Power has received environmental clearance for the construction of a 1,500MW gas-based power project in Haryana, India.

China's SEPCO III took more than 20 percent of Indian power plant building market, aid Lu Yanxia, director of SEPCO III’s Mumbai Office. All Chinese power plant contractors occupy less than 50 percent of market share in India.

Two Chinese state-owned companies held back from their investment projects in Cambodia under public pressure.

Kerala has asked NTPC to develop a 1000 MW power project as a expansion of the central power developer`s Ramagundam power plant utilizing the coal blocks allocated the state in Baitarani, Orissa.

Transformers and Electricals Kerala Ltdis now in talks with a Chinese and a Ukrainian company for a technical partner so as to be able to upgrade the existing technology to 765 Kv level.

 NTPC`s naphtha fired Kayamkulam power plant may be removed after Tamil Nadu and Kerala refused to draw power from it due to the sharp price increase of its power.

The underground coal gasification project in Tharparkar will undergo its first test burn on September 19 in the presence of four experts from Uzbekistan.

PTT has signed an agreement with affiliate IRPC to look into investing about 6 billion baht or $200 million in a solar power plant with capacity of 50-90 megawatts.

China's Trina Solar forecasts a stronger second half helped by increasing orders from new markets after last quarter's demand slump in Germany and Italy.

Samsung SDI expects the global solar cell market to be worth $70 billion by 2020.

A total of 18,405 megawatts of wind power were installed in the first half of this year around the world, up from 16,000 MW in 2010.

China is targeting 3 gigawatts of roof-mounted solar power generating capacity by 2015 and 25 GW by 2020.

China will raise development targets for renewable energy such as wind power for the five-year period through 2015.

China's twelth five-year plan unveiled this week plans for 70 GW for wind, and 5 GW of solar by 2015.

Its total power capacity is set to reach 1,430GW by 2015.

The Philippine government seeks to energize around 370,900 new household connections every year until 2017.