India

The Tamil Nadu government will energise street lights and houses with power from the sun and set up a 50 MW solar park in public-private-partnership mode.

India suffered a 6.6 percent deficit in power supply during the first quarter of the current fiscal, according to Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.

Mahindra EPC Services will use SunPower solar panels and T0 Tracker technology for multiple grid-connected solar power plants in Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat regions, planned for this year.

Delays at the turbine generator box up works at the unit-2 of Bellary stage 2 thermal power project will likely push back the full load achievement by another 4 months.

Karnataka Power Corporation Limited has requested for domestic gas allocation for its 2x700 MW gas based power plant near Bangalore and 3x700 MW GBPP in the Tadadi coastal area.

Works on the associated transmission system of NHPC's 45 MW Nimoo Bazgo hydro-electric project are likely to slip into the 12th plan period.

Lanco Infratech will invest over Rs 13,000 crore in setting up a 2,000-Mw power plant and developing a coal block at Raigarh in Chhattishgarh.

Indian nuclear plants will be able to withstand “extreme natural events” like tsunamis, cyclones, floods and dam breaks, according to a nuclear safety review.

The 600 MW unit-1 of the Anpara 'C' thermal power plant has been shut down to inspect the normal linkages.

The tower erection work of the associated transmission system (ATS) for unit-I and II of the Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP), which has seen incessant delays up till now, is now considerably much behind schedule, as per a report by the power ministry. As of June 2011, no more than 510 towers have been erected out of a total of 856 locations for the 400 kV D/C Mundra - Limbdi (Triple Snowbird) line, with 417 CKM of transmission lines yet to be laid out. Further, right of way (RoW) issues and forestry clearance are critical for laying out the remaining 108 CKM of the 764 CKM long Mundra-Bachau-Ranchodpura line. Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation Limited (GETCO), the agency implementing the ATS for the project, needs to expedite balance pile works and work in the creek area for contingency plan of the ATS while Powergrid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has completed the connection of the Bachchau- Ranchodpura line with Limdi till Ranchodpura section. Pertinently, work is in progress for Bachchau bay extension and Limbdi bays extension. Also, progress is being made on the second transformer at Ranchodpura substation of 2 X 315 MVA. Mundra UMPP, with 2 units of 800 MW capacity each, is a Tata power project located in Gujarat. The project entails an investment of Rs 17,000 crore and is being funded through a debt-equity ratio of 75:25. The executing agencies for ATS are GETCO and PGCIL.

India needs US$ 253 billion as the fund requirement for the power sector during the forthcoming 12th five year plan, from 2012 to 2017.

Reliance Industries Limited's 5 MW solar power plant at Khimsar, Rajasthan recorded the highest net capacity utilization factor at 18.8% among six grid connected solar plants.

A 1MW PV power plant, using 4,400 230 Watts crystalline silicon modules has been installed and commissioned by Tata BP Solar India.

As many as 20 power generating companies have put in their initial bids for executing the 4,000-Mw ultra mega power project in Orissa.

ABB Ltd has won orders worth Rs 16.1 crore to supply turnkey power and automation solutions for three photovoltaic solar power plants with a combined capacity of 11 Mw in India.

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission raised power tariff by 6.6 percent for bulk consumers in the country.