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A draft proposal by a panel of experts said Japan should overhaul its power sector, dominated by regional monopolies, to promote competition and a stable power supply.

Grace Solar will be building a 902kW ground-mounted PV project in Auckland and expects the installation to be completed by August 5.

Chamera III hydro power plant three 77 MW units has been synchronized and achieved full load.

The Electricity of Vietnam has informed Deputy Premier Hoang Trung Hai that it needs US$959 million capital for urgent electricity projects.

Three Chinese banks have agreed to lend India’s Reliance Power Ltd US$1.1 billion to finance power projects in India.

Only 6.43 MMSCMD are allocated for Kerala's gas-based power plants against the total requirement of 13.65 MMSCMD.

A unit belonging to Malaysia's Genting Bhd will develop a 660 MegaWatt coal-fired power plant in Banten province worth $1 billion.

Two Indian companies are partnering to build wind energy projects with a total capacity of 300 megawatts.

An expansion of the world's largest uranium deposit wil allow South Australia to fuel a third of the world's nuclear power plants.

Hydropower projects totaling 4680MW capacity under Indo-Bhutan joint initiative will begin construction within a year.

Japan will create a US$628 billion “green energy market” to push the development of renewable energy.

Eight hydroelectric power plants will be put up by Alsons Energy in the Visayas and Mindanao regions.

Punjab is hopeful that its three power plants in various stages of construction would bring power surplus by adding 3,920 Mw in the next two years.

Kansai Electric resumed power generation of its 1,180MW unit 3 of the Ohi nuclear power station. Ohi unit 3 began preparing for startup on June 16, when the national government made a final decided to restart the unit. The reactor started up on July 1 for the first time in about a year and three months and went critical on July 2. The utility will raise the output of the unit stepwise while monitoring the plant state. Unit 3 is expected to begin constant rated thermal power operation as early as July 9. After going through adjustment operation for about one month, and if the inspection outcome is successful, the unit will shift to commercial operation. Kansai Electric Power president Makoto Yagi said on the same day, "We are pleased to be able to supply electricity to our customers after an interval of four and a half months" since all the 11 units of the utility's nuclear power stations had been shut down, and added, "We are taking the first steps toward ensuring safe and stable supply of electricity." Ohi unit with 1,180 MW is expected to start up on July 18 at the earliest, go critical on July 19, be connected to the grid on July 21, and advance to constant rated thermal power operation on July 25.

This will be the country's largest wind farm consisting of 16 to 33 wind turbines.

Exploitation of wind and solar power in China's Heilongjiang province will now require permission from the provincial authorities.