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An experimental housing unit inJapan using solar panels, a storage battery and a fuel cell, was able to cut annual electricity costs by 88 percent.

Powergrid will install an optical fibre ground wire network for Northeast India.

India's generation based incentive scheme to encourage investments in the wind power sector is likely to be restored soon.

The U.S. Department of Commerce said that Vietnamese utility-scale wind towers has dumping margins of over 50%.

RenuEn has secured a 50MW solar project in Pakistan through its pending acquisition of Team Energy.

Kyocera and six other partner-companies have established a new firm to operate a 70MW solar power plant to be built in Kagoshima City, Japan.

A reactor of South Korea's Younggwang Nuclear Power Plant automatically shut down after its reactor protection system gave warning signals.

Wind power came to the rescue of the Jodhpur DISCOM districts relied on wind power during the tripping of the Northern and Eastern power grid.

The scope of power procurement is given below: 8Contract Period: 25 years 8Requisitioned Capacity (MW): 6,000 MW for base load supply of power. During the evaluation of Bids and based on the competitiveness of the bid process, the discoms/UPPCL retains the right to increase or decrease the Requisitioned Capacity by a quantum of twenty percent (20%). 8Scheduled Delivery Date: October 26, 2016 8Injection Point: In case of Injection Point being a CTU Interface, applicable transmission charges and transmission losses up to the Delivery Point shall be considered along with the Quoted Tariff for evaluation. --The transmission charges for any intrastate transmission link connecting the Interconnection Point to the Injection Point shall be borne by the Seller and no transmission charges for such intrastate transmission link shall be payable by the Procurers. However percentage loss level of such intrastate transmission link shall be specified by the Bidder in its Financial Bid and shall be considered for evaluation. --In case of Injection Point being a Delivery Point, no transmission charges or losses shall be considered for evaluation. 8Transmission Losses: The transmission losses from the Interconnection Point to the Delivery Point shall be borne by the discoms.  

The 525MW unit of Maithon power project in Jharkhand has started generating electricty.

The International Atomic Energy Agency started inspecting the Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi Prefecture.

The Andhra Pradesh Government has permitted Generation Corporation of Andhra Pradesh to set up 100 MW solar power plants close to the existing thermal and hydel power plants.

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines is similarly lining up projects that will reinforce its Visayas networks.

Infrastructure firms NCC and IL&FS Engineering will completely exit from the hydro electric project they are jointly building on the River Sorang in Himachal Pradesh.