Tanzania is seeking international and domestic investors for wind generation projects to boost power output in the country.
South Korea will not scrap nuclear power as it is an important source of energy for the resources-starved nation, said prime minister Kim Hwang-sik, amid heightened concern about the safety of atomic power plants following Japan's nuclear crisis.
The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan has decided to raise the severity rating of the Fukushima nuclear crisis to the highest level, seven.
Wind power is currently second in adding new generation capacity in the US, close behind natural gas, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA).
China has revealed it is keen to invest $10 to $15 billion in developing the Pakistani power sector .
Natural gas supplies to Pakistani independent power producers (IPPs) have been affected badly by a rupture in one of the main pipelines, causing reduction in electricity generation capacity by 1000 MW, said a senior official of the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco).
Indian Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde has said over 28 000 MW of additional electricity generation capacity will be operating in the country by the end of the current financial year (2011-12).
UK offshore renewable generation increased by nearly 75 per cent last year, government figures show.
General Electric Co, which originally helped build the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant damaged by Japan's earthquake and tsunami, will help Tepco supply electricity in the coming summer when power demand soars.
Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (Tepco) decision to scrap reactors 1-4 at the crippled nuclear power station in Fukushima Prefecture means the power utility will possibly have to shoulder a colossal 400 billion yen ($4.76 billion) to decommission the reactors, and several trillion yen in compensation.