Two power generating units, set to deliver 800 MW each are to be developed by a Japanese consortium after the group won the contract in Taiwan.

Swedish-Swiss group, ABB, has won an order worth around $33m from NTPC Limited, India’s largest power company, to build two substations in western India.

China Sunergy has completed delivery of 5 MW in solar modules for the Yerussalimovo solar park in Bulgaria.

The US has voted to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese solar panels, with duties expected to range between 31 and 250 per cent.

Royal Dutch Shell says it expects gas prices in the US to double in the next three years.

Denmark has joined the Global Smart Grid Federation, an international group of technology associations.

A Japanese town’s local assembly has voted in favour of enabling a nuclear power plant to re-open.

International engineering and construction company M+W Group, Stuttgart, has signed a contract to acquire Reliable Plant Solutions (RPS) GmbH based in Schkeuditz near Leipzig, Germany.

Asia is beginning to look like a powerhouse of Smart Grid technology with a new report predicting the market will be worth $19bn by 2016.

With Japan opting out of nuclear power following Fukushima, Chinese solar producers are keen on exploiting the gap in power generation in the country.

Echelon has launched a new control module to be rolled out in its Asian smart meter markets.

Pakistan and China are to sign agreements for two wind power projects.

Rolls-Royce has won a $30m order from Shell to supply two industrial RB211 gas turbines to boost gas output from a deepwater natural gas project in the Philippines.

Pakistan plans to construct four new nuclear power reactors over the course of the next five years.

The State Grid Corp of China (SGCC), the country's largest power transmission and distribution firm, plans to sell a coal and power generation unit with assets worth about 50 billion yuan ($7.9 billion) to Shenhua Group.

Singapore's Sembcorp Utilities has obtained approval from Vietnam's Quang Ngai provincial government to develop a 1200 MW power plant in the province.

Neyveli Lignite Corp (NLC) in a joint venture with government-owned Odisha PSU has unveiled plans to set up a 2000 MW coal fired power unit for INR100bn ($1.9bn) in Odisha state, India.

The government of Japan has chosen an advocate of the utility industry, Kazuhiko Shimokobe, as Chairman of Tepco in Tokyo.

Vietnam’s first wind power plant was put into operation this week in the south central province of Binh Thuan.