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Shikoku Electric Power Co shut the gas-fired 296-megawatt No.1 unit at Sakaide plant due to worries over a steam leak from a boiler tube.

Hydro projects worth in Nepal with a total capacity of 2,007 MW capacity are in the pipeline.

The government of Bangladesh in a joint venture with Bahrain will install a 750MW power plant at Kodda in Gazipur by 2014.

The government of Vietnam asked the local authorities to create favourable conditions for the Pleiku to Cau Bong  transmission line project’s investors.

What would be India’s biggest solar park will receive a 250 million euros or $356 million loan from KfW Entwicklungsbank of Germany.

The third turbine of Son La hydropower plant with designed capacity of 400 MW had been put into idle operation successfully.

THDC India's 444MW hydro power project on Alaknanda River in Uttarakhand, India will get a $648 million loan from the World Bank.

Growing exports by the South Korea's chemical, machinery and steel sectors increased its industrial electricity sales  steadily last month.

Japan and five Mekong River countries will focus on cross-border energy security cooperation in light of power shortages in some parts of the Southeast Asian region.

China is expected to face a power shortage up to 70 million kilowatts in 2013, according to an official with the China Electricity Council.

China's total electric power consumption from January to July rose 12.2 percent from a year earlier to 2.69 trillion kilowatt-hours, according to China's National Energy Administration.

Petrovietnam has secured a $95 million loan to build a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant in central Vietnam.

KST Energy and Russia’s Energoproekt Company signed a contract to perform a feasibility study for building a thermal power plant near the proposed refinery project at the Nhon Hoi Economic Zone, Binh Dinh Province.

The Chinese government’s new feed-in-tariff has the potential to increase solar installations in the country by 1.5GW in the next 18 months, according to a new IHS iSuppli report.

National Consulting Group will establish a power company in Vientiane and an office branch in Saravan province to operate the Houay Por hydropower plant construction project.

The government of Nepal will formally request China for US $1.6 billion in loan to construct the 750 MW West Seti Hydro Project Limited.