India

AEG Power Solutions will provide complete balance of electrical systems for a 5MW solar power plant in Gujarath, India.

Reliance Power's parent company, the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, will invest INR15bn or $333.2 million in a 200MW wind power plant in Vashpet, in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

CESC announced that it may hike its tariff if the price of coal increases.

Tamil Nadu will implement a state government scheme to utilise 100 MW wind power generated at nights for supplying to industrial units.

The four-hour power at Indira Gandhi International Airport, which disrupted over 75 flights and distressed thousands of passengers, will be probed by a five-member panel. 'We will form a five-member committee to probe the power failure at the airport,'said  Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi, referring to the problem that started around half-past-one after one of the transformers failed. The outage resulted in a complete blackout for a little over four hours. Airline staff had to check in passengers manually, since the automated baggage handling systems were affected.

The World Bank has released a draft report titled 'Biomass for Sustainable Development' on the Village Energy Security Programme, a Government of India initiative.

India will buy electricity from 35 out of 37 solar projects that were able to submit evidence they had arranged funding.

Vestas will supply 26 V100 1.8MW wind turbines for the Vandiya Power wind farm project in Gujarat, India.

International Finance Corporation will be investing US $15 million equity financing to Shalivahana Green Energy Limited, a biomass power company.

NTPC will invest about Rs 1 lakh crore to set up India’s largest hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh. The Siang Upper Project will have a generation capacity of 9,500 MW, enough to light up two cities like Delhi. “We are in talks with the Arunachal Pradesh government for setting up the project,” NTPC’s chairman and managing director Arup Roy Choudhury said. “The state has raised a few issues, which we are trying to address.” The company is preparing a detailed report for the project, he said. The Siang valley on the Brahmaputra river has 17,000 Mw of hydel power potential, according to some estimates. The 1,500-Mw Nathpa Jhakri project is the largest operational hydropower project in India.

BHEL, which is supplying equipment for the 4,000 Mw Mundra ultra mega power project being constructed by Tata Power, assured that the contract would be executed as per schedule.

The US has rejected a claim that it had agreed to provide nuclear technology assistance to Sri Lanka.

Oil & Natural Gas Corporation plans to invest in nuclear plants in India and has started mining for uranium to counter declining crude production.

A total of 636 hydro projects having capacity of less than 25 MW each are expected to be by India commissioned during the XIIth plan.

Khaperkheda Unit-5 has been shut down after the State Pollution Control Board has issued a show-cause notice.

The governments of Bhutan and India have agreed to develop at least 10,000 MW of hydropower in Bhutan by 2020.