Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) has announced that it has begun the shutdown process for the 985MW No. 1 generator at the Kuosheng Nuclear Power Plant in Wanli Distruct, New Tapei.
Rosatom has announced that construction work has started on units 5 and 6 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) in India with the first pouring of concrete into the foundation plate of the reactor building.
China’s Baihetan Dam, the second largest hydropower facility in the world, has started generating electricity for the first time.
Bangladesh has announced that it has scrapped 10 major coal-fired power plants as it seeks to increase its power generation from renewable energy sources.
Nonghyup Financial Group of South Korea will invest $22 million in a solar power plant in Japan as part of its sustainable green growth initiative.
eRex, a biomass power plant operator in Japan, is in the process of purchasing four coal-fired plants to refit them to burn biomass.
GE Renewable Energy has announced that it was selected by Continuum Green Energy India to supply, install, and commission 55 sets of its 2.7-132 onshore wind turbines for the 148.5 MW Marjar, Bhuj wind farm in Gujarat, India.
EDF has begun examination of a potential issue linked to a build-up of inert gases at its Taishan nuclear power plant in China.
Rosatom has begin construction of a 300 MW nuclear power plant with the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast reactor has started at the Siberian Chemical Combine in Seversk, in Russia’s Tomsk region.
GE Renewable Energy has signed a contract for an 88 MW wind farm with BIM Wind, a joint venture company between AC Energy of the Philippines and BIM Energy Holding of Vietnam.