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Napocor needs as much as US$911.4 million to fund its electrification projects in remote and off-grid areas over the next five years.

ADB will provide Turkish utility Zorlu Enerji Electrik Uretim with a $36.8 million loan to increase the capacity of a wind farm in Pakistan.

Out of the total 67079.74 million units of energy generated in India, excluding generation from renewable sources and captive power plants, a total of  6183.94 MU, or 9.22%, were transacted in the short-term.

ABB won an order worth $63 million from China Southern Power Grid Co. Ltd to design, supply, install and commission 800 kV UHVDC transformers.

Mitsubishi Electric has started establishing the Smart Community Project Group.

The installations of the world's largest hydroelectric turbine generators have begun at China's Xiangjiaba Dam.

China wasted 2.78 billion kilowatt hours of power generated by its wind farms in a half-year period in 2010.

Vietnam handed over the Sekaman hydropower project No. 1 to Laos for a duration of 30 years.

Rahimafrooz Renewable Energy has ordered an advanced module manufacturing line with a capacity of 20MW from Spire Corporation. The modules made at the new facility will be used for rural applications.

 L&T will build a gas-based power plant in Gujarat under a US$240 million EPC contract for Gujarat State Electricity Corporation.

Sinovel Wind Group will finish production of the country's first independently-developed 6-megawatt wind turbine in June.

The largest wind farm project in north China's Tianjin Municipality has been connected to grid. It now supplies enough power for 247,500 households a year.

Japan's Showa Shell unit, Solar Frontier has begun commercial production at its third solar cell plant in southwestern Japan.

Azure Power plans to construct a 10MW solar facility in the state of Meghalaya, India. It has identified West Garo Hills and Ri-Bhoi districts as potential sites for the project.

Moser Baer selected First Solar to supply 25MW DC of advanced thin-film modules for its solar power generation projects in India.

CR Power is investigating the feasibility of wind farms in the cities of Wulong, Yuyang, Wuxi, and Chongqing.