Staff Reporter

Vietnam Electricity awarded the Chengda-Dec-Swepdi-Zepc consortium an engineering, procurement and construction contract to build the 1,245MW Duyen Hai 3 thermal power plant in Tra Vinh province, Vietnam.

Reliance Power's parent company, the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, will invest INR15bn or $333.2 million in a 200MW wind power plant in Vashpet, in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

CESC announced that it may hike its tariff if the price of coal increases.

Tamil Nadu will implement a state government scheme to utilise 100 MW wind power generated at nights for supplying to industrial units.

The four-hour power at Indira Gandhi International Airport, which disrupted over 75 flights and distressed thousands of passengers, will be probed by a five-member panel. 'We will form a five-member committee to probe the power failure at the airport,'said  Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi, referring to the problem that started around half-past-one after one of the transformers failed. The outage resulted in a complete blackout for a little over four hours. Airline staff had to check in passengers manually, since the automated baggage handling systems were affected.

Saigon Asset Management Corp. plans to raise $300 million for an energy fund that would be the country’s largest.

The World Bank has released a draft report titled 'Biomass for Sustainable Development' on the Village Energy Security Programme, a Government of India initiative.

India will buy electricity from 35 out of 37 solar projects that were able to submit evidence they had arranged funding.

Vestas will supply 26 V100 1.8MW wind turbines for the Vandiya Power wind farm project in Gujarat, India.

Bangchak Petroleum is eyeing expansion of three solar power projects in Thailand with investments of THB12bn or $401 million.

International Finance Corporation will be investing US $15 million equity financing to Shalivahana Green Energy Limited, a biomass power company.

NTPC will invest about Rs 1 lakh crore to set up India’s largest hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh. The Siang Upper Project will have a generation capacity of 9,500 MW, enough to light up two cities like Delhi. “We are in talks with the Arunachal Pradesh government for setting up the project,” NTPC’s chairman and managing director Arup Roy Choudhury said. “The state has raised a few issues, which we are trying to address.” The company is preparing a detailed report for the project, he said. The Siang valley on the Brahmaputra river has 17,000 Mw of hydel power potential, according to some estimates. The 1,500-Mw Nathpa Jhakri project is the largest operational hydropower project in India.

BHEL, which is supplying equipment for the 4,000 Mw Mundra ultra mega power project being constructed by Tata Power, assured that the contract would be executed as per schedule.

South Korea's clean energy sector grew significantly over the last three years with both its sales and exports jumping roughly seven fold.

Japan decided exporting nuclear power generation technology after reviewing its policy.

Tohoku Electric Power has received an additional 300MW out of the expected 1,100 from Tokyo Electric Power  to avoid rolling blackouts and meet the increasing demands.