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Siemens and Cobra will install the $116.4M power transmission grid across Bangladesh and India by next year.

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina wants to utilize renewable energy in improving the counrtry's power situation.

Hanwha will US$955 million on a new polysilicon plant to help double sales over the next five years.

A false alarm led to the shutting down of Kaiga Atomic Power Station's third reactor. It would be restarted on April 17 and connected to the grid after surveillance tests.

Sinovel has bumped off General Electric at second place among the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers.

China's National Energy Bureau is drafting new regulations to standardize the examination and approval of small wind farm projects.

Shanghai Electric had signed an agreement with  to export 125 units of 2MW wind turbines to India.

There was a water leak out of spent fules at Onagawa nuclear plant after a second earthquake hit the north-east of Japan.

ADB will provide technical assistance of around $12.4 million for more efficient power use in Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu.

ABB will supply 800 kilovolt UHVDC transformers for both converter stations of the new Jinping-Sunan ultrahigh-voltage transmission system. The order worth about $165 million was received from State Grid Corporation of China.

ABB will build a $30 million substation to increase power supply and allow Rio Tinto to expand iron ore mining at Hope Downs mines in the Pilbara region.

A second pair of L-3 MAPPS-developed simulators for the CPR1000+ nuclear plant design have entered service at the Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Training Center.

Tepco resumed operations of its earthquake-affected 600MWFashima oil-fired power plant.

China Power New Energy Development will not build new nuclear power plants this year following Japan’s nuclear crisis last month, according to Chairman Li Xiolin. The company currently has 13 nuclear power plants operations.

Alstom will engineer, procure, construct and commission a 1,000MW steam turbine, a generator, a supercritical boiler and auxiliaries for upercritical coal-fired power plant in Manjung, Malaysia. The power generation equipment worth over €650 million.

Techno Electric and Engineering Company Ltd. has commenced the first phase of the 125-MW wind energy generation project in Tamil Nadu.