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Will respond this week to charges of “forced localization”.

West Bengal will turn hydropower to improve power supply.

Power crisis in Kerala will be eased with the installation of 10,000 solar roof-top panels in houses.

Bangladesh will purchase of 61,650 electric poles to achieve 1.8 million new power connections in rural areas.

Filinvest is gearing up for the pre-construction phases of a 405-MW coal-fired plant in Misamis Oriental.

San Carlos BioPower Corp is putting up four biomass power plants with a combined capacity of 100 megawatts at a cost of $500 million.

Marubeni Corp. is seeking a buyer for its 30% stake in the Millmerran Power Station in Queensland, Australia.

December 23, 2012 marks a milestone in the history of the Son La Hydropower Plant as the day it officially began operations three years ahead of schedule. It is the largest hydropower plant in the country and Southeast Asia, and also the largest of its kind designed and built by Vietnamese engineers.

Electricity of Vietnam announced it produced and purchased an estimated 10.12 billion kWh in the first month of this year.

Hydro Tasmania hopes to develop renewable energy projects outside Tasmania.

Hydro Tasmania and Shenhua Clean Energy have included the Musselroe Wind Farm among their joint projects.

Senoko Energy started up two natural gas-fired power plants with 862 megawatt capacity in Singapore.

TEPCO bidding plan for coal-fired thermal plants should be put on hold.

The Philippines’ only copper smelter and refiner wants to build a 200 megawatt coal-fired plant.

Deal seen as a prelude to purchase of shale gas by Japan for its power plants.

Indonesia will relax export restrictions for geothermal development.