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Thailand's largest wind farm enters commercial operations

The 260MW Hanuman Wind Farm is composed of five sub-projects.

Thailand set to add 56GW of power capacity by 2037

This will bring its total capacity to 77GW.

India added 12GW of new power capacity in FY2018/2019

New on-grid capacity additions in renewable energy stood at 8.6GW.

India's wind capacity to fall short of 60GW target by 2022

Land availability hurdles, grid access bottlenecks and concerns over the viability of low tender bids could hamper its ambitious target.

Ørsted eyes building two wind farms in Taiwan

It signed a power purchase agreement with Taipower for the 900MW wind farms.

Osaka Gas drops plans for coal power plant in Yamaguchi

It considers scaling down the project to a 600MW ultra supercritical coal plant.

India needs $37.26b to meet 234GW peak load by 2022: report

The private sector is expected to play a vital role as competitive bidding gains momentum.

Indonesia's largest combined-cycle gas turbine plant nabs $305m funding

The plant is expected to power 11 million Indonesian homes from 2021.

China installed 5.2GW of solar power capacity in Q1

Centralised solar accounted for 2.4GW of installations.

Asia's energy policies largely untouched by effects of electoral season: study

There is little scope for a new government to depart from policies in Thailand, Indonesia, India, and Australia.

South America's largest solar farm banks on Chinese funding

The Import-Export Bank of China financed 85% of the project’s nearly $400m price tag.

Tanjung Bin power plant unaffected by fire at conveyor belt: Malakoff

The incident is not expected to affect its operations as it is undergoing a scheduled outage from 30 March to 9 June 2019.

Tata Power to raise renewables' share in new capacity additions to 70%

13GW coal-fired power projects have been cancelled or shelved since 2010.

China's relaxed coal plant ban still won't spur construction flurry: report

Incentives to build more coal-fired power plants are almost non-existent.

Heatwave-hit Australia lost 1.6GW of thermal generation in January

The consequent load shedding impacted more than 200,000 Victorian consumers across two hours on 25 January.