India

Pakistan's business community welcomed the decision of United States Congress for releasing $280 million to support Pakistan's energy sector.

A wind project in Pakistan has been allotted with around 908 acres by the Sindh government and their wind turbines will be spread over 12,000 acres.

An investment between $1.2 billion and $2.7 billion in wind energy projects in Pakistan are expected by its government.

Two tunnel-boring machines were installed at the site of the 969-megawatt Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

India’s controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant will become operational next month after a delay of nearly five years and US$484 million over budget.

The government of Bangladesh is planning to set up 50 new power sub-stations in Rajshahi, Rangpur, Khulna and Barishal division.

Powergrid will install an optical fibre ground wire network for Northeast India.

India's generation based incentive scheme to encourage investments in the wind power sector is likely to be restored soon.

RenuEn has secured a 50MW solar project in Pakistan through its pending acquisition of Team Energy.

Wind power came to the rescue of the Jodhpur DISCOM districts relied on wind power during the tripping of the Northern and Eastern power grid.

Grid frequency dropped below 50hz leading grids to collapse, a source said.

The biggest blackout in Indian history has turned into the biggest blackout in world history.

India is the beneficiary of a US$20 million U.S. programme designed to boost its use of renewable energy.

The scope of power procurement is given below: 8Contract Period: 25 years 8Requisitioned Capacity (MW): 6,000 MW for base load supply of power. During the evaluation of Bids and based on the competitiveness of the bid process, the discoms/UPPCL retains the right to increase or decrease the Requisitioned Capacity by a quantum of twenty percent (20%). 8Scheduled Delivery Date: October 26, 2016 8Injection Point: In case of Injection Point being a CTU Interface, applicable transmission charges and transmission losses up to the Delivery Point shall be considered along with the Quoted Tariff for evaluation. --The transmission charges for any intrastate transmission link connecting the Interconnection Point to the Injection Point shall be borne by the Seller and no transmission charges for such intrastate transmission link shall be payable by the Procurers. However percentage loss level of such intrastate transmission link shall be specified by the Bidder in its Financial Bid and shall be considered for evaluation. --In case of Injection Point being a Delivery Point, no transmission charges or losses shall be considered for evaluation. 8Transmission Losses: The transmission losses from the Interconnection Point to the Delivery Point shall be borne by the discoms.