Staff Reporter

The government of Vietnam asked the local authorities to create favourable conditions for the Pleiku to Cau Bong  transmission line project’s investors.

What would be India’s biggest solar park will receive a 250 million euros or $356 million loan from KfW Entwicklungsbank of Germany.

The third turbine of Son La hydropower plant with designed capacity of 400 MW had been put into idle operation successfully.

The ADB is extending a $300 million loan to Bangladesh to fund five aging generation units at Ashuganj power station with a new energy-efficient combined cycle power plant using natural gas as the fuel source.

NHPC exceeded the target for all power house works of the Teesta Low Dam-III hydroelectric project for the month of July 2011.

THDC India's 444MW hydro power project on Alaknanda River in Uttarakhand, India will get a $648 million loan from the World Bank.

The energy saving results of Vietnam's power corporations in the first six months of 2011 reached 667.38 million kWh, 1.3% of commercial electricity.

Growing exports by the South Korea's chemical, machinery and steel sectors increased its industrial electricity sales  steadily last month.

Japan and five Mekong River countries will focus on cross-border energy security cooperation in light of power shortages in some parts of the Southeast Asian region.

China is expected to face a power shortage up to 70 million kilowatts in 2013, according to an official with the China Electricity Council.

China's total electric power consumption from January to July rose 12.2 percent from a year earlier to 2.69 trillion kilowatt-hours, according to China's National Energy Administration.

Turbine Technology Services Corporation is extending its global reach in Asia with the delivery of two TTS CMS-1000 portable combustion dynamics measurement systems for customers in Jinjiang, China.

Petrovietnam has secured a $95 million loan to build a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant in central Vietnam.

KST Energy and Russia’s Energoproekt Company signed a contract to perform a feasibility study for building a thermal power plant near the proposed refinery project at the Nhon Hoi Economic Zone, Binh Dinh Province.

With the Indian power sector projected to attract a total investment of US$300 billion or RM885 billion by 2017, Malaysian power companies are ideally placed to profit from the opportunities.

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi appealed for a review of the ongoing dam projects in Kachin State.