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China wasted 2.78 billion kilowatt hours of power generated by its wind farms in a half-year period in 2010.

Vietnam handed over the Sekaman hydropower project No. 1 to Laos for a duration of 30 years.

Rahimafrooz Renewable Energy has ordered an advanced module manufacturing line with a capacity of 20MW from Spire Corporation. The modules made at the new facility will be used for rural applications.

 L&T will build a gas-based power plant in Gujarat under a US$240 million EPC contract for Gujarat State Electricity Corporation.

Sinovel Wind Group will finish production of the country's first independently-developed 6-megawatt wind turbine in June.

The largest wind farm project in north China's Tianjin Municipality has been connected to grid. It now supplies enough power for 247,500 households a year.

Japan's Showa Shell unit, Solar Frontier has begun commercial production at its third solar cell plant in southwestern Japan.

Azure Power plans to construct a 10MW solar facility in the state of Meghalaya, India. It has identified West Garo Hills and Ri-Bhoi districts as potential sites for the project.

Moser Baer selected First Solar to supply 25MW DC of advanced thin-film modules for its solar power generation projects in India.

CR Power is investigating the feasibility of wind farms in the cities of Wulong, Yuyang, Wuxi, and Chongqing.

A US$370 million contract was signed by Marubeni with Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh.

India's installed power generation capacity of the country has surged to 1,70,228.86 MW.

Against a coal import target of 35 million tonnes for the current fiscal, the power utilities have imported 18.144 MT as of January 2010.

A cumulative growth of 5.04% in Indian energy generation was recorded during the first 10 months of the financial year 2010-11.

NTPC sought another six month-extension to comply with the gas supply agreement for stage II of the Rajiv Gandhi combined cycle power plan.

Aboitiz Power will spend $1.5 billion for the expansion of its Subic and Davao coal-fired facilities over the next three years.