India

India expects to conduct a systems test on its 500 MW Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor in September.

Tata Power has commissioned its 4,000MW power station in Gujarat, India.

Bangladesh is one of the fastest growing markets of renewable energy, said experts at the launching  of the Institute of Clean Energy Training and Research.

The State Agency for Alternative & Renewable Energy is preparing a draft state strategy to be completed in about six months.

The Joint Secretary of India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy believes that solar power will attain grid parity by 2017. Sec. Tapun Kapoor based his assessment on the response from the Solar Manufacturing Industry to levelize cost that is equal to or less than the price of purchasing power from the grid. Kapoor said this while presenting the Solar Power Scenario in India during the recently concluded 27th Meeting of Forum of Regulators. Reaching grid parity is an important point in the development of new sources of power, such as solar power, as it is the point at which it becomes a contender for widespread development without subsidy support.

The Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission announced that 30,000 MW solar thermal power projects could be set up in 10% of wasteland in the state were to be made available for solar power installation.

Nepal will import additional 150MW from the Indian electricity market despite the latter's power deficit.

The Adani Group has commissioned what is being touted as India’s largest solar power plant after a build process that took only five months.

 Azure Power has commissioned its third solar plant, located in Rajasthan, in just under two years.

The increasing number of bioenergy power generation projects in 2011 produced 500MW of energy.

Power crisis in Andhra Pradesh is expected to worsen with an average power shortfall of 1,180 million units from January-May 2012.

Power plants to be installed in Bangladesh by 2015 may not get adequate gas supply.

ABB has booked an order worth more than Rs. 4000 crores from Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., to deliver UHVDC transmission system.