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• Coastal Gujarat Power gets $450 mln loan for power project in India - ADB
  Apr 25, 2008 - Thomson Fnancial
  
  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it has executed a loan agreement for a $450 million loan to India's Tata Power Company Ltd.'s wholly-owned unit, Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd. (CGPL), which will build, own and operate the 4,000-megawatt Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
  
  
• Undersea Electricity Line to Link India, Lanka
  Apr 22, 2008 - The Times of India
  
  India and Sri Lanka are working on a plan to lay a transmission line under the sea to connect the power distribution networks of the two countries so that electricity can be supplied by one when the other is running short.
  
  
• PowerGrid’s undersea line to link India, Sri Lanka
  Apr 12, 2008 - Sanjay Jog - The Financial Express
  
  Mumbai, Apr 12 The state-run PowerGrid Corporation of India proposes to lay down an under sea line between India and Sri Lanka. The proposed undersea high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line will be for the transfer of 500-mw, which will be subsequently upgraded to 1,000 mw.
  
  
• Egat seals Laos deals
  Apr 10, 2008 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Yuthana Praiwan - Bangkok Post, Thailand
  
  The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the developers of the Hongsa Lignite power plant in Laos to buy 1,470 megawatts of electricity, according to Egat governor Sombat Santijaree.
  
  
• ADB to help India bring electric power to all
  Apr 1, 2008 - Xinhua
  
  With support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), India's national power grid operator will expand the country's power transmission grid and link stable energy supplies to all areas suffering shortages, ADB said on Tuesday.
  
  
• Cambodian coastal town gets 24-hour electricity from Vietnam
  Mar 25, 2008 - BBC Monitoring
  
  The people in Kep, a Southwestern city of Cambodia, can now have access 24 hours to the electricity.
  
  
• Power Grid gets $600 m loan from World Bank
  Mar 20, 2008 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Samiran Saha Hindustan Times, New Delhi
  
  The World Bank on Wednesday approved a $600-million loan to power transmission giant Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) to strengthen the electricity transmission system to increase reliable power exchange between regions and states.
  
  
• Cambodia to export electricity in 2020
  Feb 21, 2008 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  Cambodia will not only meet its domestic power demand but also export electricity to another countries in the next ten years, despite of the fact that it is importing electricity from Viet Nam and Thailand.
  
  
• Nepal to Purchase Electricity From India
  Feb 12, 2008 - Xinhua
  
  Nepal is preparing to buy 40 MW of electricity from India to prevent longer hours of power cut in the country, a senior official has said.
  
  
• ABB Wins $71 Million Worth Orders From PGCIL
  Feb 11, 2008 - Datamonitor
  
  Swiss power and automation group ABB has won orders worth approximately $71 million from India's national transmission utility, Powergrid Corporation of India, to help strengthen the country's transmission network.
  
  
• Cambodia plans to buy more electricity from Vietnam
  Jan 28, 2008 - Xinhua
  
  Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that his country was planning to purchase more electricity from Vietnam to meet its ever rising demand. Today's Headlines California Approves Feed-In Tariffs, Rewards Energy Efficiency NRUCFC Issues Almost $31 Million in Clean Renewable Energy Bonds for Electric Co-ops' Renewable Energy Projects FutureGen officials continue talks Two utilities plan power line Constellation skips regulatory hearing
  
  
• Tajik-Iranian joint venture starts to build small power plant in south
  Jan 31, 2008 - BBC Monitoring
  
  Tajikistan has started implementing one of the eight projects on construction of small hydroelectric power plants funded by the Islamic Development Bank, the head of the centre for implementing energy projects, Sanat Rahimov, has told Avesta.
  
  
• Cambodia to get 7 mln usd loan for transmission line to import electricity - ADB
  Jan 31, 2008 - Thomson Financial
  
  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it will provide a 7 mln usd loan without government guarantee to Cambodia for building transmission lines to import electricity from Thailand, including to the tourism hub of Siem Reap, and the growing cities of Battambang and Banteay Meanchey where there have been power shortages.
  
  
• ADB helps Philippine electric coops bring power to remote areas
  Jan 23, 2008 - AsiaPulse
  
  Residents in remote areas of the Philippines with limited access to electricity may see light at the end of the tunnel with new financial support from Japan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that target electric cooperatives.
  
  
• Vietnam to Import 3.8bn kWhs Power From China in 08
  Jan 17, 2008 - SinoCast
  
  Vietnam will import 3.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity from China in 2008, including 1.7 billion kilowatt-hours imported in the first five months, said the state-owned Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) recently.
  
  
• Tajikistan Begins Construction of New Power Line to Afghanistan
  Jan 15, 2008 - BBC Monitoring Central Asia
  
  After completing the construction of a 10- kV electric power transmission line [from eastern Tajikistan to the Afghan district of Fayzabad], the Pamirenergy company started the construction of a 0.4 kV electric power transmission line designed to provide electricity to Shognan district in Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province.
  
  
• 200,000 More Rural People Get Access to Electricity in Southwest China
  Jan 7, 2008 - Xinhua
  
  Another 200,000 people bid farewell to a life without electricity in the rural areas of southwest China's Yunnan Province in 2007, local authorities said on Friday.
  
  
• Thailand signs MOU to buy more power from Laos
  Dec 24, 2007 - AsiaPulse
  
  Thailand will today sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its neighboring Laos to buy more electricity from that country, according to Thai Energy Minister Piyasvasti Amaranand.
  
  
• ABB wins orders worth $440 million
  Dec 18, 2007 - SWISS-PRESS.COM - PRESSEMITTEILUNG
  
  Zurich, ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won orders worth $440 million from the State Grid Corporation of China and other partners to provide new ultrahigh-voltage technology for the world?s longest power transmission link.
  
  
• China to allow foreign firms to invest in power grid construction
  Dec 14, 2007 - XFN-ASIA
  
  BEIJING - China will allow foreign companies to invest in the construction and operation of the country's power grid for the first time, the country's top economic planner said.
  
  
• Turkmenistan Begins Electricity Supplies to Tajikistan
  Dec 03 - BBC Monitoring - Central Asia
  
  he supply of Turkmen electricity to Tajikistan has eventually started, although in small amounts - 2- 2.5m kWh per day and night, the Barq-i Tojik OJSHC [open joint- stock holding company] has told Asia-Plus.
  
  
• Leading Energy Company of India to Establish Geothermal Energy in India and Nepal
  Nov 27, 2007 - Market Wire
  
  Glitnir, the Nordic corporate investment bank, and LNJ Bhilwara Group with operations in India and Nepal has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate in developing geothermal power plants in India and Nepal. This MoU has been signed during the visit of the Finance Minister of Iceland on invitation from Finance Minister of India. The finance minister of Iceland H.E. Arni Mathiesen is on an official visit with a business delegation focused on Energy development in India.
  
  
• East-West Power Grid Launched
  Nov 27, 2007 - New Straits Times
  
  The long-awaited east-west power grid was officially commissioned yesterday after a two-year delay. Involving the transmission of between 132 kilovolt and 275kv, the project was completed at a cost of RM503 million, with RM350 million provided by the federal government and RM153 million soft loan.
  
  
• Agreement signed in Kabul on electricity transmission project that connects Central Asia with South Asia
  Nov 19, 2007 - The World Bank Group
  
  Kabul November 19, 2007 – An agreement was signed in Kabul on November 16 to implement a US$500 million electricity connection between Central Asia and South Asia. In its first stage, the project would transfer around 1300 Megawatts of electricity from Tajikistan and Kyrgyz Republic to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Central Asia has abundant hydropower resources and seasonal energy surpluses that can provide lower cost power to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
  
  
• Belarus Plans to Spend Around $10bln Before 2011 to Upgrade Power Grid
  Nov 16, 2007 - Daily News Bulletin
  
  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has approved a comprehensive program developed by the government to upgrade the fixed assets of the Belarusian power grid, to save energy and to increase the use of its own fuel and energy resources for up to 2011, the president's press service told Interfax.
  
  
• PI pipeline: 'focus on big picture'
  Oct 22, 2007 - Hindustan Times
  
  India and South Asian countries need to work out a mechanism for regional energy cooperation by de-linking the subject from current controversies relating to the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project.
  
  
• Vietnam Hooks National Power Grid With Cambodia, Laos for Trading
  Sep 25, 2007 - BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific
  
  Hanoi (VNA) -The Electricity of Vietnam group (EVN) has revealed a plan to hook the national grid onto those of neighbouring countries for power trading. From now to 2010, Vietnam will supply Cambodia between 80-200 MW through a 220kV line linking the Thot Not station in the Mekong delta to Cambodia's Phnom Penh.
  
  
• Russia to Start Power Transmission to China in 08
  Sep 21, 2007 - SinoCast
  
  Beijing - Russia is estimated to start to transmit electricity China from 2008, in the first phase of a program between the two country, said Leonid Drachevsky, deputy chairman of RAO "UES of Russia", the largest energy giant in Russia.
  
  
• Renewable energy may account for 30 percent of China's energy supply in 2050, predicts expert
  Sep 18, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  Renewable energy could contribute to 30 percent of China's total energy supply by 2050, an energy expert estimated on Tuesday.
  
  
• RAO UES Reportedly Increasing Electricity Exports to China
  Sep 18, 2007 - Datamonitor
  
  Russian state-owned electricity titan RAO UES has said that it will increase electricity exports to China in a phased manner from 2008, reported Russian press agency RIA Novosti, quoting a deputy chairman of the company.
  
  
• World Bank funds Tajik-Afghan power supply project
  Sep 12, 2007 - BBC Monitorng
  
  The World Bank (WB) has allocated 3m dollars [to Tajikistan] to draw up a feasibility study for a project to construct the Sangtuda [Tajikistan]-Sherkhan Bandar [northern Afghanistan] high-voltage power transmission line, Avesta news agency has been told at the Tajik Ministry of Energy and Industry.
  
  
• AREVA T&D Awarded First High-Voltage Direct Current Contract in China
  Sep 10, 2007 - National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)
  
  AREVA‘s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division has signed a multi-million Euro contract to supply H400 high-voltage direct current (HVDC) thyristor valves to interconnect the Chinese and Russian power grids.
  
  
• China's West-East Power Transmission Hit by Grid Problems
  Aug 29, 2007 - Xinhua Finance News
  
  China's nationwide program to deliver electricity produced in western regions to the east coast is suffering because of inadequate grid infrastructure, according to a report by the official Economic Daily.
  
  
• Tajik Premier Pledges Electricity Supplies to Kazakhstan
  Aug 24, 2007 - BBC Monitoring
  
  Tajikistan will be ready to export to Kazakhstan up to 2.5bn kWh of electricity per annum once the Sangtuda-1 hydroelectric power station is commissioned, Tajik Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov has said.
  
  
• China & Russian to Deepen Cooperation on Electric Power
  Aug 13, 2007 - Sinocast
  
  HEILONGJIANG - Russia and China will speed up their cooperation on the electric power industry.
  
  
• Taiwan Power plans to lay undersea electric cable to Penghu
  Aug 7, 2007 - Asia In Focus
  
  TAIPEI: State-owned TAIWAN POWER CO. announced Monday a plan to construct a 60 kilometre undersea electric cable linking Taiwan proper and its outlying island of Penghu as part of the company's efforts to secure supplies of wind-powered electricity between the two places. The NT$14.68 billion (US$445 million) plan is currently undergoing an environmental impact assessment, a company spokesman said, who estimated that the entire project will be finished in November 2012 if the assessment is completed by the end of this year.
  
  
• China switches on first cross-border power grid from Russia
  Jul 25, 2007 China Business News
  
  China has given the green light for the construction of its very first cross-border high-voltage power grid to transport electricity from Russia. According to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, 5,000 kilometers of power grid with capacity of 500 kilovolts would be established by the State Grid Corp of China along the borders of both countries.
  
  http://emerging.tdctrade.com/content.aspx?data=EmergingMkt_content_en&contentid=911823&w_sid=194&w_pid=1403&w_nid=13525&w_cid=911823&w_idt=1900-01-01&w_oid=343&w_jid=
  
  
• SGCC opens power exchange
  Jul 13, 2007 - China Daily
  
  State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the nation's largest power transmission company, opened a center in Beijing on Thursday for North China Grid Co Ltd to help allocate electricity and connect supply with demand.
  
  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-07/13/content_6368521.htm
  
  
• China's Yunnan sends 2 bln kwh of electricity to Vietnam
  Jul 11, 2007 - AsiaPulse
  
  By June 30, Yunnan Power Grid had sent a total of 2.133 billion kilowatt-hours (kwh) of electricity to Vietnam, sources from Yunnan Power Grid Company disclosed.
  
  
• Myanmar, South Korea to cooperate in developing electric power network
  Jul 4, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  South Korea and Myanmar will cooperate in developing Myanmar's electric power network dealing with management and operation under a three-year project worth 1.4 million U.S. dollars, the local Flower News reported Wednesday.
  
  
• ADB lends Cambodia 8 million USD for power line
  Jul 03, 2007 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  
  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced it will grant a loan of 8 million USD to help Cambodia overcome major power shortage in its northwestern region.
  
  
• South Korea to begin inter-Korean power transmissions
  Jun 21, 2007 -- BBC Monitoring
  
  South Korea boosted its supply of electricity to an industrial complex in North Korea on Thursday, opening the way for inter-Korean power transmission via high-voltage cables for the first time in nearly 60 years.
  
  
• China to help finance Senegal's power project
  June 13, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  China is ready to help finance an electricity transmission and transformation project in Senegal, reports from the Senegalese capital of Dakar reaching Abidjan said Tuesday.
  
  
• China's State Grid Starts Building Sichuan-Shanghai Transmission Network
  May 23, 2007 -- XFN-ASIA
  
  State Power Grid Corp, one of the China's two major state-owned power transmission firms, has started constructing a 800 kv direct current power transmission network, linking Sichuan province in the southwest of the country to Shanghai.
  
  
• Kyrgyzstan: Central Asia power grids discuss cooperation plans
  May 22, 2007 - BBC Monitoring
  
  The Kyrgyz energy system is currently operating in parallel with energy systems of Central Asia, Kazakhstan and Russia. The parallel operation of the energy systems is increasing the reliability of electricity supplies to consumers and allowing the power engineering systems to help one another in emergencies and work more economically. This has been said at a regular session of the coordination commission of the Electricity Council of Central Asia in Bishkek.
  
  
• China completes new power line to Vietnam
  May 13, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  A new power transmission line designed to send electricity from Wenshan in southwest China to Ha Giang in Vietnam has been completed and put into service, reported the Yunnan Power Grid.
  
  
• China to Export 2.5bn Kwh of Electricity to Vietnam in 2007
  Apr 29, 2007 - BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific
  
  China will export 2.5bn kilowatt- hours of electricity to Vietnam this year through a network of five power transmission lines, the China Southern Power Grid Company said on Sunday.
  
  
• Tunnel dream: Undersea project would link Alaska, Russia
  April 24, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- For more than a century, entrepreneurs and engineers have dreamed of building a tunnel connecting the eastern and western hemispheres under the Bering Strait -- only to be brought up short by war, revolution and politics. Now die-hard supporters are renewing their push for the audacious plan -- a $65 billion highway project that would link two of the world's most inhospitable regions by burrowing under a stretch of water connecting the Pacific with the Arctic Ocean.
  
  http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04/24/russia.alaska.tunnel.ap/index.html
  
  
• Russia Plans World's Longest Tunnel, a Link to Alaska (Update4)
  April 18, 2007 - Bloomberg - Yuriy Humber and Bradley Cook
  
  Russia plans to build the world's longest tunnel, a transport and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65 billion project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and electricity from Siberia.
  
  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a5OJJzlp0xwM
  
  
• India to depend on renewable sources to meet energy needs
  Apr 09, 2007 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  New Delhi, India will be dependent on renewable sources such as solar, hydro and biofuels to meet 50 per cent of its energy requirements by 2050.
  
  http://peakoil.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25159
  
  
• Russia, North Korea Discussing Energy Exports
  Mar 23, 2007 - Daily News Bulletin
  
  Moscow - Russia and North Korea are discussing joint projects to build power stations in North Korea and also to organize exports of electricity from Russia to North Korea, say materials prepared for a meeting of a Russian-North Korean intergovernmental commission that is taking place on Friday in Moscow.
  
  
• Tajiks, Afghan, Iran agree on feasibility study of joint power line
  Mar 20, 2007 - BBC Monitoring
  
  Dushanbe: Tajik, Afghan and Iranian power engineers have signed a treaty on the feasibility study of a project for the construction of a high-voltage power transmission line from Tajikistan to Iran through Afghan territory, and have chosen a prime contractor, Avesta has been told by the Tajik Energy and Industry Ministry.
  
  
• Project to Build Power Lines for Electricity Exports to China Valued at $6 Bln
  Mar 20, 2007 - Daily News Bulletin; Moscow
  
  The Federal Grid Company (FSK) values the construction of electric power lines under a project to export Russian electricity to China at some $6 billion.
  
  
• Vietnam to import more electricity from China
  Mar 12, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  Vietnam will import more electricity from China this year to serve its border provinces, according to local newspaper Vietnam Economic Times on Monday.
  
  
• Positive response from India to import of electricity from Bhutan and Nepal: Power Advisor
  Mar 11, 2007 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  Bangladesh has received a positive response from India regarding the plan for importing electricity from Bhutan and Nepal, as a measure for tackling the prevailing crisis, Power and Energy Advisor Tapan Chowdhury said Sunday.
  
  
• India mulls power transmission links with Sri Lanka, B'desh
  Mar 8, 2007 - Asia in Focus
  
  The government on Wednesday said it was looking into the possibility of establishing power transmission links with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, while asking other South Asian countries to enhance regional energy cooperation. "We would suggest the approach of building country-to-country grid interconnections as building blocks for making feasible flow of electricity across the region," Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Energy Ministers' meeting here.
  
  
• Power minister moots SAARC energy grid
  Mar 7, 2007 McClatchy-Tribune Business News Formerly Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
  
  NEW DELHI -- Power minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday made an effort to energise economic cooperation among SAARC countries by proposing to bind them together through a network of transnational energy lifelines -- from oil and gas pipelines to interconnecting power transmission lines.
  
  
• China to make record investment to expand power grids
  Mar 5, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  The State Power Grid Corporation will invest a record 220 billion yuan (28.6 billion U.S. dollars) in fixed assets this year, of which 202.5 billion yuan (26.3 billion U.S. dollars) will be poured into construction, company sources announced on Monday.
  
  http://english.people.com.cn/200703/05/eng20070305_354417.html
  
  
• Chinese Companies Sign Agreements On Building Power Projects in Cambodia
  Feb 16, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  Chinese companies here on Friday signed several agreements with Cambodian government officials on building a hydropower plant and an electricity transmission network for the kingdom.
  
  
• ADB to invest $3b in power sector
  
  Feb 15, 2007 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  
  The Asian Development Bank will invest three billion US dollars in Pakistan for improvement of power transmission and distribution system in the next three years. ADB Country Director in Pakistan Dr Peter Fedon disclosed this while talking to the Water and Power Minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi on Thursday. The bank has assured of their technical and financial support for major water and power sector projects. The ADB assistance will be used in upgradation of power distribution systems and transmission lines to increase system efficiency and supply of electricity to consumers besides major rehabilitation and infrastructure projects in the water sector.
  
  
• China starts construction on cross-sea power grid project
  Feb 11, 2007 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  China is working on its first cross-sea power grid connection project to link the grids of coastal Guangdong province and the southernmost island province of Hainan, which would be the world's longest such project when completed in 2009.
  
  
• Azerbaijan considers Russian energy grid's cooperation offer
  Jan 26, 2007 - BBC Monitoring
  
  The Azerbaijani government is considering seriously RAO UES [Unified Energy System of Russia] proposals concerning cooperation in the electric power industry.
  
  
• ADB to Study Power Trade Potential to Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Jan 22, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  ADB is providing a US$3 million technical assistance grant to study the potential for regional electricity trading that would help optimize utilization of power resources in both Central and South Asia.
  
  http://www.adb.org/Media/Articles/2007/11373-asian-electricity-tradings/default.asp
  
  
• Malaysias's Tenaga eyes earning boost from power export to Thailand
  Jan 18, 2007 - Asia Pulse Pty Ltd
  
  Tenaga Nasional Bhd (KLSE:5347) expects earnings from electricity export to Thailand to double to RM1 billion (US$285.2 million) if the current negotiations bear fruit.
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29271506_ITM
  
  
• China's Installed Power Capacity Exceeds 600 Gws in 2006
  Jan 12, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  China's power generating capacity rose 20.3 percent from 2005 to 622 gigawatts last year, said the China Electricity Council (CEC) on Thursday.
  
  http://www.chinagate.com.cn/english/economic/49762.htm
  
  
• Nepal-India sign deal to construct power transmission line
  Jan 6, 2007 - PTI
  
  Kathmandu, Jan 6: Nepal and India have agreed to construct a 220 KV trans-border transmission line to facilitate exchange of power between the two countries.
  
  http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=75750
  
  
• Myanmar, China sign hydropower agreement
  Jan 2, 2007 - Kyodo
  
  Myanmar and China has signed an agreement for a 600-megawatt hydropower project on the Shweli River in northeastern Myanmar near the Chinese border, Myanmar state-run media reported Monday.
  
  http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/394988
  
  
• South Korea holds ceremony to connect power cables with North
  Dec 21, 2006 - BBC Monitoring Newsfile
  
  South Korea on Thursday [21 December] held a ceremony to connect power cables to North Korea, which will provide up to 100,000 kW of electricity for South Korean businesses operating at a joint industrial complex in the energy-starved North, a joint South-North Korean committee running the complex said
  
  http://powermarketers.netcontentinc.net/newsreader.asp?ppa=8knpq_%5BkmpqpsvZTnk%7D38%7Dbfem%5E!
  
  
• Thailand buys more power from Laos
  Dec 18, 2006 - TNA-E111
  
  Thailand on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Laos to buy more electricity from the landlocked country with an aim to cater to the kingdom's rising demand for power and to strengthen the security of the power supply for the future.
  
  http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=26654
  
  
• Power transmited from Three Gorges to Shanghai
  Dec 10, 2006 - Xinhua
  
  A major power transmission line that links Three Gorges project with Shanghai starts operation on Saturday, amid efforts to ensure the city's huge demand for power.
  
  http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-12/10/content_754948.htm
  
  
• ADB to offer 20 mln USD for Cambodia to build regional electricity network
  Dec. 2, 2006 - Xinhua
  
  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will offer 20 million U.S. dollars of loan for Cambodia to build electricity network from Kampot province to Sihanoukville, a press release from the Ministry of Finance and Economy said here on Saturday.
  
  http://english.eviewweek.com/show.aspx?id=5879&cid=11
  
  

• India plans high-capacity power line
  Nov 28, 2006 - UPI
  
  India is moving forward with plans to build a 1,000-mile-long power transmission line connecting
  its northeast with the rest of the country.
  
  http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061128-124505-7037r

• China to Create Nationwide Power Grid Network by 2020
  Nov 23, 2000 - People's Daily
  
  China will set up a unified power grid network across the nation by the year 2020, according to
  Sinoprojects.com. The leading website on investment projects in China quoted sources with the
  State Development Planning Commission (SDPC) as saying that the central government is taking
  effective measures to connect the existing cross-province power grids and independent power
  generators.
  
  http://english.people.com.cn/english/200011/23/eng20001123_55984.html
  

• REL to get Power Grid contract
  Nov 21, 2006 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  Corporate giant Reliance Energy has outbid seven other companies, including Tata Power and GMR,
  to emerge as the top contender for building India's first fully independent private power transmission
  lines at a cost of about Rs 18-20 billion.
  
  http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=147007
  
  
• Afghanistan to import 300 MW power from Uzbekistan
  Nov 14, 2006 - Xinhua
  
  The war-ravaged and energy-thirsty Afghanistan has inked agreement with Uzbekistan to import 300 MW electricity from its central Asian neighbor, Presidential spokesman Mohammad Karim Rahimi said in Kabul on Tuesday.
  
  
• China, Russia Inked Power purchase Contract
  Nov 14, 2006 - SinoCast
  
  Liu Zhenya and Anatoly Chubais, the general director of China's power giant the State Grid Corporation
  of China and the president of Russia's largest power holding Unified Energy System of Russia (RAO UESR),
  signed an electric power-purchase contract on November 9, according to the State Electricity Regulatory
  Commission (SERC) of China.
  
  
• Russia Negotiating to Provide Electricity in Joint Deal with Both Koreas
  Nov 13, 2006 - BBC Monitoring
  
  Russia has been negotiating deals to provide electricity to North and South Korea, a Russian official said, although the talks are now in jeopardy because of U.N. Security Council sanctions against the communist nation.
  
  http://goldsea.com/Asiagate/611/11russia.html
  
  

• S.E. Asian nations to develop alternative energy sources with China
  Oct 31, 2006 - AP China
  
  Southeast Asian nations will cooperate with China to develop alternative sources of energy because the region cannot rely on fossil fuels, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Tuesday.
  
  http://asia.news.yahoo.com/061031/kyodo/d8l3kroo0.html
  
  

• Kazakhstan: World Bank Supports Electricity Transmission To South
  Oct 27, 2006 - Press Release - World Bank
  
  ASTANA - The World Bank today approved a US$ 100 million loan for Phase II of the Kazakhstan North-South Electricity Transmission Project. The project will help ensure access to a reliable, cost-effective and high-quality supply of electricity for business enterprises and households in southern Kazakhstan. The project also supports regional integration by optimizing the use of energy resources through the international electricity trade. It will help to promote national and regional competition by allowing low cost producers in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to compete on the broader regional market.
  
  
• China to Transmit Electricity to Southeast Asia
  Oct 10, 2006 - SinoCast
  
  The first Sino-Vietnam 220-KV Electricity Transmission Line has been formally put into production.
  China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. (CSG) has started to transmit electricity to North Vietnam.
  
  

• China builds world's largest rural power grid
  Oct 8, 2006 - Xinhua
  
  China's power grid has been spreading quickly in rural areas, with an extra 161,000 rural households
  hooked up since March this year, raising the proportion of rural families with access to electricity to
  a historic 99.4 percent, said the country's top power operator Sunday.
  
  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/08/content_5177096.htm
  
  

• China to boost alternative energy 2006-2010 against rising oil prices
  Oct 03, 2006 - BBC News
  
  The Ministry of Finance has decided to increase input in projects involved in developing bio-energy
  and other alternative energies between 2006 and 2010.
  
  http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/chinainstitute/nav03.cfm?nav03=51193&nav02=49595&nav01=43092
  
  
• China's Anhui to invest US$8.8bln in new energy projects
  Sep 21, 2006 - AsiaPulse
  
  China's eastern Anhui Province, where the Huainan and Huaibei coalmines are located, plans to invest
  70 billion yuan (US$8.8 billion) in the 2006-2010 period to establish 17 new coalmine projects, 13 electric
  power projects and 9 coal chemical projects.
  
  http://pro.energycentral.com/professional/news/power/news_article.cfm?id=7179039
  
  
• China's Largest Cross-border Power Project Commissioned
  Sep 21, 2006 - SinoCast
  
  The China-part project of China's largest cross-border power project, which is to transmit electricity from
  Honghe of China's Yunnan Province to Vietnam, recently was successfully put into operation, and is planned
  to officially transmit electricity to Vietnam from September 26, according to Chinese sources. The 220-KV
  Honghe-Vietnam power project started from this February, and is planned to involve investment of
  CNY 286.2 million totally.
  
  http://pro.energycentral.com/professional/news/power/news_article.cfm?id=7180373
  
  
• Power industry co-op in full swing
  Sep 21, 2006, Dian Li - China Daily
  
  A new power supply project between Russia and Heilongjiang will help both nations strengthen economic
  and trade ties. Under the China-Russia Direct-Current Power Grid Project, which will soon begin, electricity
  will be transmitted from Russia's Far East to Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
  
  http://powermarketers.netcontentinc.net/newsreader.asp?ppa=8knpq%5F%5BjiejqpqXUmi%27%40%3E%20bfel%5D%21
  
  
• India and Nepal try to break the ice on joint hydropower
  Sep 08, 2006 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  There is a 20 percent shortfall in power supply on the north Indian grid this summer. Parts of New Delhi
  are suffering six-hour power cuts daily. Nepal sits on anywhere between 45,000-80,000 M. There is
  demand, and there is supply, yet Nepal and India can't agree on sharing power and water for mutual benefit.
  
  http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue/314/Headline/12436
  
  
• India Invites Chinese Investment In Power Sector
  Aug 29, 2006 - Asia Pulse
  
  BEIJING - India and China have initiated their first steps to cooperate in the electricity sector and New Delhi has invited Chinese investments in the power sector, including transmission and high-end generation. Since India and China are two big countries with fastest developing economies, both...
  
  http://goliath.ecnext.com/comsite5/bin/pdinventory.pl?pdlanding=1&referid=2750&item_id=0199-4637377
  
  
• South Korea, China agree to pursue joint energy project
  Aug. 29, 2006 - The Associated Press
  
  South Korea and China agreed Tuesday to pursue joint projects in the energy sector to cope with rising global oil prices. The two sides agreed to strengthen cooperation in their policies related with high oil prices and the issue of global energy supply," South Korea's Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said in a statement after a meeting between South Korea's Commerce Minister Chung Sye-kyun and his Chinese counterpart, Ma Ka.
  
  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/29/ap/business/mainD8JQ2T380.shtml
  
  
• India Eyes Power Generation Projects in Nepal
  Aug 26, 2006 - The Hindu
  
  Facing acute shortage of electricity, India is talking to neighbouring Nepal for tapping the potential it has
  there. "We are talking to Nepal. There lies a potential of about 60,000 MW electricity generation," Power
  Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said in Lok Sabha during the Question Hour.
  
  http://www.hinduonnet.com/holnus/001200608260321.htm
  
  
• China lays foundation for first experimental project of UHV grids
  Aug 21, 2006 - Xinhua
  
  China laid foundation for the experimental project of Ultra High Voltage (UHV) grids in the north, launching the country's first move to transmit power for a long distance through 1,000-kilovolt alternating grids.
  
  
• China to construct power plants in Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan
  Jun 19, 2006 - Kyodo News
  
  Energy-hungry China has struck agreements with Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan to build power plants in the countries and import electricity from them, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.
  
  http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060619/kyodo/d8ib8s3o0.html
  
  
• China offers Namibia assistance with construction of power line from
  Jun 15, 2006 - BBC Monitoring via COMTEX
  
  Zambia - Last week a Chinese government-owned company was in the country for talks with State House and NamPower [government-owned power utility] on assistance with the construction of a power line from Zambia.
  
  
• Vietnam to import more electricity from China
  May 8, 2006 - Zinhuanet
  
  HANOI - Vietnam plans to buy additional 200 MWof electricity from China to supply its northern
  Thai Nguyen province between 2007 and 2010, local newspaper Vietnam News reported Monday.
  
  http://www.busytrade.com/news/newsinfo.php?id=2360
  
  
• Kabul-Jalalabad power line more suitable
  May, 2006
  
  Islamabad - Minister for Water and Power Liaquat Ali Jatoi on Tuesday said Central Asian Republic States (CARs) Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan expressed their willingness on installation of transmission line from Kabul to Pakistan.Addressing a press conference here after the conclusion of two-day Central Asian-South Asian Electricity Trade conference, the minister said that Afghanistan in this regard agreed to provide transit for power trade.
  
  http://pakobserver.net/200605/10
  
  
• Beijing to upgrade power network
  April 24, 2006
  
  BEIJING - Beijing will invest approximately 63.3 billion RMB (7.9 billion US dollars) to upgrade
  the city’s power network, according to Beijing’s 11th five-year plan (2006-2010).
  
  http://en.olympic.cn/08beijing/setting_stage/2006-04-26/844965.html
  
  
• Tajik, Chinese companies sign deals to build two power lines in Tajikistan
  Apr 20, 2006 -The Associated Press
  
  DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - Tajikistan's national electric power company signed deals with a Chinese company to build two power transmission lines in this ex-Soviet republic, an official said Thursday.
  
  
• Barqi Tojik and China Theban Electric sign contracts to $300mln
  April 19, 2006 - I. Kurbanov - Avesta - Commerical News Update
  
  Barqi Tojik Joint Stock Holding Company and Chinese China Theban Electric Apparatus Stock company
  (CTEAS) signed two contracts on the construction of high voltage power lines in Tajikistan. Both contracts
  were signed Wednesday in Dushanbe, a spokesman for Barqi Tojik Nozir Edgori told Avesta. We are
  speaking of the construction of a 500 kWt South-North and a 220 kWt Lolazor-Khatlon power lines. Total
  cost of these projects is estimated at around $340mln.
  
  http://www.bisnis.doc.gov/bisnis/bisdoc/0604TajikNews.htm
  
  
• Network to be extended in countryside
  March 28, 2006 - Wang Ying - China Daily
  
  The country's biggest electricity grid company, the State Grid Corp of China, yesterday said it planned to spend up to 20 billion yuan (US$2.5 billion) over the next five years to improve the power transmission network in rural areas.
  
  
• Electricity Trade Flourishes
  March 23, 2006 - Jiang Wei - China Daily
  
  China and Russia are poised to expand electricity