India

Bangladesh's Rural Electrification Board will put up a Tk 54.13 billion mega project to bring 1.8 million more rural people under electricity coverage by 2015.

Malaysia's Tenaga Nasional Bhd has been selected by the Bangladesh Power Division for the installation and operations of a 1,320MW coal-fired plant in that country.

The ADB clarified that it has remained committed with the $12 billion Diamer-Bhasha Dam project.

India was considering exporting 500 megawatts of electricity to Pakistan, according to a twitter message by India’s Ambassador to the United States Nirupama Rao.

Unit 1 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant will be loaded with fuel soon.

A subsidiary of China Three Gorges Corporation signed a revised MoU with IB for the 750-MW West Seti Hydro Power Project and the Transmission Project.

Tata Power Solar Systems Limited, previously known as Tata BP Solar India, has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Power.

Morgan Stanley is hoping to acquire a wind power business in India.

India’s Reliance Power Ltd and China Datang Corporation have entered into a strategic partnership to develop and operate power and energy projects in Indonesia.

Vietnam's Song Da Group and Viet-Laos Electricity Joint-Stock Company will build Sekong 3 and Sekaman 4 hydroelectricity projects in Laos.

Delay in supply of steam and turbine generator components by BHEL is keeping the 500 MW unit-II of the Rihand stage-III expansion project in India from being comissioned on time.

Most of Bangladesh's midterm and long term power generation initiatives are stuck in uncertainties for lack of finance and fuel supply assurances.

Schanti Partners will invest US$105.1 million for the development of a 50MW solar power project in the district of Kaimur, Bihar, India.