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The Japanese Cabinet approved guidelines for drafting the fiscal 2013 budget, emphasizing financing for renewable energy development.

A meeting between the government and the business community to iron out energy policy instead saw the private sector complain loudly about the plan to raise energy taxes.

China is resorting to “fracking” to sate its enormous demand for oil but this controversial technology might prove insufficient.

Opposition to China acquiring a US. maker of high tech batteries continues to mount in Washington.

The government of Indonesia will build a 110-megawatt hydropower plant as it revives the Jatigede dam project in West Java.

India will add its southern grid to the central transmission system by 2014 ramping upits transmission capacity to 65,500 MW.

Pertamina will develop another eight geothermal projects after the Indonesian raised electricity prices from geothermal power plants.

The Tarapur Atomic Power Station generated a total of 2,780 mus from April to June accounting for 33 percent of India's total atomic power generated in the period.

The Philippines’ largest power distributor and a Japanese firm intend to build one of the largest liquefied natural gas power plants in the Philippines.

The World Bank has approved a 400 megawatt hydroelectric power station project at the Selenge River.

Bangladesh power projects amounting to 13,000 megawatt could not be implemented due to liquidity problems.

India’s leading wind turbine maker reported its biggest ever quarterly loss at US$153 million.

Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding is looking to invest in two or three power plants in Myanmar, excluding the Dawei project.

Tanjung Bin coal-fired station's current generating capacity of 2,000MW will increase to 3,100MW primarily due to its new 1,000MW power plant.

Norwegian firm Renewable Energy Corporation ASA will do the research.