India

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.

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.

The US has rejected a claim that it had agreed to provide nuclear technology assistance to Sri Lanka.

Oil & Natural Gas Corporation plans to invest in nuclear plants in India and has started mining for uranium to counter declining crude production.

A total of 636 hydro projects having capacity of less than 25 MW each are expected to be by India commissioned during the XIIth plan.

Khaperkheda Unit-5 has been shut down after the State Pollution Control Board has issued a show-cause notice.

The governments of Bhutan and India have agreed to develop at least 10,000 MW of hydropower in Bhutan by 2020.

NHPC is now trying to garner all statutory clearances for Teesta stage-IV hydroelectric project to receive approval from the Public Investment Board.

The Tamil Nadu government will energise street lights and houses with power from the sun and set up a 50 MW solar park in public-private-partnership mode.

India suffered a 6.6 percent deficit in power supply during the first quarter of the current fiscal, according to Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.

Mahindra EPC Services will use SunPower solar panels and T0 Tracker technology for multiple grid-connected solar power plants in Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat regions, planned for this year.

Delays at the turbine generator box up works at the unit-2 of Bellary stage 2 thermal power project will likely push back the full load achievement by another 4 months.

Karnataka Power Corporation Limited has requested for domestic gas allocation for its 2x700 MW gas based power plant near Bangalore and 3x700 MW GBPP in the Tadadi coastal area.