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China should give higher priority on control of total energy consumption, said a senior energy official Saturday.

NHPC has resubmitted the detailed project report for the 800 MW Tawang-II hydro-electric project to the CEA after incorporating certain revisions.

Japan's Mitsui plans to construct large scale solar plants with a total capacity of 100MW in the quake hit regions of Tohoku, Japan.

This is part of Senoko’s repowering programme to launch environmentally-friendly gas-fired units.

Japan will conduct stress tests on all its nuclear reactors.

PT PLN plans to construct three gas-fired power plants with a total capacity of 4,500MW in Java, Indonesia.

Silt stopped and stored by the Three Gorges Dam is creating riverbank collapses in the lower reaches of the Yangtze, a hydraulic expert told the Global Times Wednesday. The cause of these collapses is clearer water hitting the middle and lower reaches of the river, said Liu Shukun, a professor in the department of hydraulics at the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research in Beijing. "The water generates stronger scouring force against the river banks, making them more vulnerable to collapse," he said. Silt content at three points along the Jingjiang section of the Yangtze – 30 kilometers downstream of the dam – has fallen 70 to 80 percent since the dam started storing water, according to statistics from the Yangtze Water Resources Commission of the Yangtze Institute of Survey Planning Design and Research in Wuhan, Hubei Province, the 21st Century Business Herald reported. The 430-killometer-Jingjiang River is what the Yangtze is called from Zhicheng, Hubei Province, to Chenglingji in Hunan Province. Large riverbank collapses in Nanwuzhou, a 25-kilometer-dam on the Jingjiang River, hit twice last year, leaving a 600-meter collapsed section, the Guangzhou-based newspaper reported. In the four years after 2003, when the dam started storing water, 124 collapses occurred along the Jingjiang River, the report said. Statistics from 2002 to 2006 suggest annual bank and riverbed erosion 10 times higher along the Jingjiang River since the Three Gorges Dam began storing water, according to an expert at the institute, the newspaper reported. The constant collapses have hurt attempts at bank protection, Cai Qihua, director of the Changjiang Water Resources Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources, told the People's Daily on June 11. "The erosion is much more serious than we had predicted," she said. The Yangtze riverbed and its water level had also fallen in recent years, according to Liu. During the five years after the dams stored water, riverbeds of some sections of the Jingjiang River are about one meter lower than before, the Guangzhou-based newspaper said. The Yangtze water level will fall 5 to 10 meters more in drought seasons, a hydraulic expert was quoted by the newspaper as saying. Poyang and Dongting lakes near the Yangtze have almost no water. "With a lowering Yangtze riverbed, droughts will occur at the two lakes frequently in the future," Liu said. "Hunan and Jiangxi provinces are planning to build locks on the lakes that will have a negative impact on the irrigation and ecology of the lower reaches." The government has invested more than 100 billion yuan ($15.5 billion) to study the problems in the lower Yangtze reaches, Liu said.  

Korea Midland Power Co., a unit of KEPCO, will build and manage a hydroelectric power plant in northern Vietnam with htree other companies.

Torrent Power will avail of the engineering, procurement and construction services Siemens Limited, India and Siemens AG, Germany for setting up two gas based power projects of capacity worth 1600 MW in Gujarat.

Tata Powerhas completed milestones for units 1, 2 and 3 associated with its 4000 MW Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project. Amongst the five units of 800 MW each, units 2 and 3 witnessed maximum progress in first half of year 2011. The boiler hydro test for unit 3 was successfully completed in March and main steam line hydro test was recently finished in May. With the current status of the ongoing activities, the boiler light is expected to be up in August. Furthermore, at unit 1, the steam blowing process that commenced in March was concluded within 3 months. The synchronization is expected to take place in July whereas commercial operations is scheduled to be achieved by September. In the remaining units, engineering, procurement and construction activities are progressing sequentially as per schedule. All four units, except unit 1, are targeted for completion in year 2013. Overall, approximately 83% of the work is complete for Mundra UMPP.  

Mongolia has selected Chinese and U.S. firms as partners in jointly developing its lucrative Tavan Tolgoi coal deposit.

Two out of five hydroelectric dams being constructed in Cambodia by Chinese investors will begin to supply electricity from the end of this year onward, said Prime Minister Hun Sen.

The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation has again surpassed the 'Excellent' MoU generation target for the period April 2011-June 2011.

The Orissa government has asked state-run NTPC to completely shut down the 2,000 Mw stage-II of Talcher Super Thermal Power Station, amid concerns over fly ash disposal.

Power Grid Corp is racing to build transmission lines for Tata Power’s ultra mega power plant in Mundra, whose first unit is ready to start generation three months ahead.

Yingli Green Energy will supply HUnaghe Hydropower with 30MW of PV modules for a solar project located in Wulan, and 80MW of PV modules for a project located in Golmud. These are both in Qinghai province.