India

Work is underway to build transmission connectivity to enable Bangladesh to import 500MW of electricity from India.

Reliance Power will partner with state-owned Power Finance Corp in its quest to earn INR3.1bn ($693m) by selling carbon credits generated by two ultra-mega power projects in India. The public private partnershipwill allow the company to earn the 3.5 million carbon credits worth INR1.1bn (246.13m) over a ten-year period from its 4GW coal-fired Krishnapatnam power project located in Andhra Pradesh. Meanwhile, the Sasan project, located in Madhya Pradesh, is expected to generate over 22 million carbon credits worth INR2bn ($447.51m). The two developments are being built at an estimated cost of INR330bn ($7.38bn).

Tata BP Solar India has installed and commissioned a 1MW solar plant in Tamil Nadu, India.

South Korean company Doosan will build a manufacturing plant in Tamil Nadu, India to produce boilers for Indian thermal power projects.

Lanco Infratech has commissioned the second unit of its 1,200 MW Udupi Thermal Power Plant.

The associated transmission system of unit-2 of the Koderma thermal power plant, the 222 CKM long 400kV D/C Koderma-Biharisff line is now complete. The line capacity is enough for both units of the TPP.

Karnataka will award permits to companies to build 200 MW of projects through bidding and the remaining 150 Mw by application.

Peabody Energy has teamed up with Arcelor Mittal to offer US $5 billion for Australia’s Macarthur Coal, the world’s bigger producer of pulverised coal.

Orient Green Power Company Limited through its subsidiary Beta Wind Farms Ltd. synchronised an 18.7 MW wind farm with the state grid of Tamil Nadu.

National Thermal Power Corporation would provide 14.32 MW to 118 villages located within a radius of five km from its two power stations- the 3000 Mw NTPC Kaniha and the Talcher Thermal Power Station. While the Kaniha plant would offer 4.55 MW, the Talcher station would provide 9.77 MW under a Central government scheme which will benefit about 1.4 lakh people belonging to 28458 families in 118 villages of the state. The scheme will cover five blocks in Angul district-Kaniha, Talcher, Orapada, Barjang and Banarpali. An agreement was signed between G Mathivathanan, state energy secretary, R Venkateswaran, regional executive director, NTPC and B C Jena, chairman cum chief executive officer of Cesu in the presence of state energy minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak. “The tripartite agreement signed by the state government with Cesu and NTPC will benefit about 1.4 lakh people in 118 villages including 5068 Below Poverty Line families around TTPS and 3318 BPL families around NTPC Kaniha. Under this project, two new 33 KV substations will be set up and 230 new Phase-III distribution transformers will be laid”, the minister said.

The Indian government revealed that the power sector investment, which was envisaged at Rs 10 lakh crore for the current plan from 2007 to 2012, was facing a 40 %  funding gap.

Techno Electric & Engineering has secured $80 million in loans for the 101MW wind farm project in Tirunaveli and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.

The power generation for all of India in June stands at 7943.97 MU, at a plant load factor of 62.79.

India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy deliberated on the guidelines to be issued for the next batch of solar power projects, envisaged to have a capacity of 300 MW.

The installed generation capacity for the thermal, hydro and nuclear sectors in India, stands at 1,55,973.32 MW according to the latest Central Electricity Authority report.

Adani Power's board has approved the merger with Growmore Trade and Investment. The company did not provide further details about Growmore.