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A mammoth project to connect the national energy grids of five Asian and European countries takes a key step forward.

After a drop in uranium imports in 2011, China intends to increase uranium imports this year to keep pace with the building of more nuclear power plants.

Ho Chi Minh City will employ two additional power plants with a combined capacity of 40MW using energy created by organic waste.

China Power Investment Corp. is said to be in "active talks" with the government of Myanmar to resume development of a $3.6 billion hydroelectric dam.

Formalities to import electricity from India has been completed by the government of Bangladesh, thereby allowing its national grid to get 500-megawatt by July 2013.

Emerson is automating two 1,000MW ultra-supercritical, power-generating units at the Jiangsu Xinhai power plant in China.

The Indian government says it will not compromise on nuclear safety in light of stubborn public protests about the safety of India's existing and new nuclear power plants.

Indian global wind power company Suzlon Energy Ltd will soon launch its latest generation of low-wind turbines.

Laos will benefit from dam projects along tributaries of Mekong River but Cambodia will suffer most due to fish catch losses.

India's Ministry of External Affairs and Powergrid have inked the agreement for strengthening cross-border transmission lines to Nepal.

India's first coal gasification plant is now being built by private sector Jindal Steel and Power Ltd.

Malaysia is showing increasing interest in investing in hydro-electric power projects in India.

Funds committed to support Indonesia’s investment master plan until 2014 have reached Rp 4,925 trillion or $537 billion as of the end of February.

India’s largest power utility won’t invest in coal-fired power plants but will go for clean energy projects instead.

Two Distribution Main Intake substations wi be buit and upgraded in Sabah to overcome shortage of electricity supply to residents.

Work at the Chinese-backed Myitsone Dam in northern Burma is continuing despite a presidential statement last September suspending its construction.