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Northern province of Ha Giang in Vietnam will have its first hydro power plant using the oscillating water column technology.

Japanese small solar panel owners  sold 50 percent more power to utilities last year than in 2010. Owners sold a total 2,150 gigawatt hours to power utilities last year, helped by the government scheme. The data showed Japan's 10 regional power companies spent a total 96 billion yen or $1.2 billion for surplus solar power from house owners and small businesses last year via a feed-in tariff scheme, which requires them to buy such power, reports Reuters. Last year's purchase volume is equivalent to 0.24 percent of sales from the power companies of some 884,000 gigawatt hours a year on average in the three years to March 2011. In 2010, power companies bought 1,400 gigawatt hours of such surplus solar power via the same scheme. When a full-fledged scheme applying any electricity from solar, wind, small hydro, biomass and geothermal power plants is launched in July, the existing one will remain but cover surplus power from solar panel owners of up to 10 kilowatts only. Currently, regional power firms pay 48 yen per kilowatt hour for surplus electricity from solar panel owners of less than 10 kilowatts and 24 yen for surplus power from owners of 10 to 500 kilowatts, and allowed to add on the extra costs to all users in the same region evenly.

Tepco will agree to be taken over by the government in a near-$13 billion bailout.

Indowind Energy Limited successfully registered its 18 MW wind farm project in Elkurnahali village of Karnataka with the UNFCCC for CER certificates.

Bangladesh will import 240,000 tonnes of fuel oil in 2012 for power generation at sharply stronger premiums.

The financial profile of Indian state power utilities is weak due, according to Fitch. This is due to the lack of cost-reflective retail tariffs, delays in receipt of subsidy payments and high transmission and distribution losses.

The first unit of Neyveli Lignite 's Barsingsar thermal power station with a capacity of 125 MW  has started commercial operations.

The Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission wants wind energy procured through competitive bidding from power plants commissioned in FY 2012-13 onwards.

Power utilities across India have imported a total 33.475 MT of coal during the first three quarters of the ongoing fiscal period.

Tepco may sell or invite outside investments for its older fossil fuel-fired power plants.

Sembcorp Industries has signed an MOU to explore the feasibility of developing a 1,200 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Dung Quat Economic Zone.

The U.S. Commerce Department is investigating importation of more than $100 million worth of wind energy towers from China and Vietnam.

Japan's push to restart nuclear reactors  by proving their safety through stress tests sparked an angry response from the public.

The chances of NHPC commissioning the Nimoo Bazgo hydroelectric project on the revised schedule appeared increasingly bleak after BHEL delayed milestones.

India's Ministry of Coal rejected NTPC's proposal to construct its 1,980 MW North Karanpura super thermal power project at District Chatra - Jharkhand.

India wants broader guidelines and timelines for issuing environment clearances to power projects.