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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.

KEPCO has set up a joint venture with German engineering firm Uhde to carry out environment-friendly power generation projects.

10 of its wind turbines will be generating 16 MW of power for the Bac Lieu Wind Farm.

They dropped 44% in June as prices fall.

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

China's power generation rose 13.5 percent from a year earlier to 2.22 trillion kilowatts-hours in the first half of this year.

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.

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.

ADB will help the Greater Mekong Subregion scale up the use of biomass waste in the agriculture sector to meet its growing need for clean energy.

Less than 10% of these companies have security policies and strategies implemented.

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

AES-VCM Mong Duong Power will construct Vietnam's largest private sector power plant, a $1.95 billion coal-fired plant, on a build-operate-transfer basis.

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.